“The smart boys in the neocon brain trust thought that these crushing sanctions would cause the Russian economy to collapse like a house of cards in a matter of weeks.”
The neocons are idiots, this is by far the most incompetent bunch of clowns we’ve ever had in the White House. This isn’t Iraq or Iran, Russia can be practically self sufficient if need be, and controls vital resources. And so far they haven’t gotten China, India, Brazil, Mexico, or the many other unaligned nations to join in the sanctions, nor even Hungary for that matter. These neocon fools miscalculated, economies worldwide would collapse if Russian gas & oil were taken off the market. That is exactly what scares me, knowing the neocons will never admit to error, they will ramp up this war to involve a direct conflict with NATO, mark my words. There’s no way they can allow this to continue into next winter. Our country is being run by a bunch of freaking morons.
Alex and Alexander at The Duran say it constantly - the neocons have no reverse gear, and they ALWAYS double and triple down.