We won the cold war yet Russia is threatening nuclear war. If it happens then we DIDNT win anything. Do you see nuclear war is an all round loser ? Or not?
Oh you don’t see the impending economic and energy collapse due to sanctions? They lived with Ukraine inon their border so long as we stayed out . The moment America interfered in 2014 Russia refused to live with it. We set the stage for war. W then used sanctions that will provoke war. We then almost certainly took out pipelines that will start WW III.
Even if not, do you get that energy and economic collapse is coming? The Ukraine issue is BS. They could be rounded up and slaughtered and the coming energy collapse is STILL more important.
Do you get what acting in the West’s and not Ukraine’s interest mean? Ukraine could vanish from the earth and it still would be ok so long as we survive. This is survival. Do you get that?
No, it isn't. There isn't going to be any economic collapse. A severe downturn, but that's it. Average Americans will be considerably poorer, but we won't have mass starvation or even another Great Depression. We still produce most of the oil we need, and a huge food surplus. One of the primary health problems for Americans is obesity.
Russia and all of its production could evaporate from the face of the planet and it would be the equivalent of Italy disappearing.
This downturn is being exacerbated by the Russia sanctions, but not caused by them. The primary causes of the downturn are the lockdowns inflicted by governments in COVID panic and the subsequent tidal waves of liquidity which must now be mopped up. Because our government is bought and paid for, most of that mopping up will take place by removing money from your wallet and mine.
Another important factor is the "green" strangulation of the economy. I hope now that people are getting a taste of the "green" economy, they'll finally spit it back out.
I've lived through a number of wars, economic downturns and nuclear bloviating by the Soviet Union and Russia. I don't see any reason to think this time will be much different.