~All of us throughout the rest of the world should do all we can to utterly crush Russia’s economy. Putin’s incompetence has already done half the job for us.~
Do you want it to revolve back into a communist country? They have enough internal resources to be in odds with the rest of the world, given the authorities would be able to cut toilet paper and quality shoes from the rest of population. Being under sanctions is a gift for authorities in a situation like that, they can halt reforms grab resources and blame the West for all the pain.
Russia is not really much better than a communist country with Putin in charge; he’s just a gangster statesman embracing ultra-nationalism for demagogic reasons. Sure a lot of people are duped by him, many even on this site (not mentioning any names, but they’re always here to present the Putinista point of view), but his reestablishment of the Soviet empire and support for communism in Cuba, the Iranian mad mullahs and their nuclear weapons program, etc., show he deserves our contempt and no cooperation. Screw Putin and let the chips fall where they may for the Russian people until they show us that they don’t want Putin as President for Life and that they want to join the civilized world.