Originally Posted by
langleybaston
Not that Russia would enjoy the future ............ surely a global pariah, decreased market for its oil and gas, decreased export market for arms, unwilling to find business partners because of lack of trust, weakened militarily, weakened morally [not sure if that is possible] and surrounded [they infer] by potential enemies busy augmenting their own forces.
Looks like a Pyrrhic victory to me, should it happen.
Perhaps some merit in what you say but the capitalist might will win out. Look what happened after the world wars. Not having an economical viable (that once was) country is not good for world economics. How many companies, factories, restarted in western countries with the shutdown of China due Covid. Or did we just do without in the belief it would all come out in the wash and be ok in the long run. Do we still buy oil off, if not totally despot just a little bit despot, countries?