Maikeru is just like that other turk here who was banned.
An Ukrop propagandist.
Nah, he's been here a long time.
He's just going through the 5 stages of grief.
He's currently at bargaining. "China will save us!"
The western economy was almost completely decoupled from the Soviet Union and most satellite states for more than four decades during the cold war. Even during the oil crises in the seventies which hit the western world much harder than the current energy crises.
The world is different today of course but decoupling is the most likely outcome if Russia doesn't work out a bilateral solution with Ukraine. No way around it. Everybody lose but Russia the most.
Add rearmament, renewed nuclear deterrence, policy and alliance reaffirment, public sentiments and so on and things do look grim and set in stone for what might follow.
Those that think that everyone will simply forget in a couple of months with everything going back to normal are only fooling themselves.
Ukraine is finished as far as I can see.
The only question is what will happen between the west and Russia afterwards. Biden isn't going to confront Russia militarily. Russia could be hit hard by sanctions, maybe America will force Europe to stop buying Russian oil and gas.
But it's not like Russia sells things to the Europe that can easily be replaced, it's mainly commodities. All it will mean is a reshuffling of who buys oil and gas from where. Anything replaceable will be gone though (e.g. software).
Europe sells a lot of high value products that would hurt their economies more. Instead of buying expensive German cars, Russians will be buying cheaper Chinese cars. In fact, most things that Russia gets from Europe can be bought from China at a cheaper cost.
I think in the end both Russia and Europe will decide it's not worth sabotaging your economy for no reason. There probably will be some targeted sanctions against politicians and that'll be the end of it in terms of the economic war.
