Who is killing their own deserters matters not at all in the long run.
This is what matters.
This is why Putin and friends are just biding their time.
While freepers argue about battlefield stuff, the dollar is dying internationally.
What does that mean for us?
This means that the US ability to print money is dwindling and at one point there will not be enough money coming into the treasury to cover expenditures. IMO
The Fed has been reducing its dollar holdings, while other central banks have been increasing their dollar reserves at the Fed.
Economic sanctions are notoriously ineffective. Only once or twice have they “worked”. Like when the Japanese decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. A victory for sanctions.
Only the peons suffer.
Stormy.
A de-industrialized America will do very poorly as the dollar is no longer the primary currency for world trade.
We have been able to export our inflation to the world in exchange for cheaper goods and materials. That will come to an end in short order. The welfare state that was financed by that inflation will come to an end as well.
Higher prices for everything, a declining standard of living for most people, and a spectacular finish of hyperinflation that collapses our economy, civil war, and a replacement of the US Government is the predictable consequence. The replacement government will not include any of the current political celebrities. It will be interesting and exciting times (that's not a good thing).
The ones who get through it will put the pieces back together. What that will look like remains to be decided.
At some point, the dollar will not be the world reserve currency. You can fill in the blanks afterwards and what it means here and abroad.
Classic Triffin’s dilemma
A country whose currency is the world’s reserve currency must supply its money to the world to use, usually by runnng persistent trade and current account deficits
Eventually, reserve currency status and well-being of citizens and government eventually come into direct conflict.
In my opinion, this is the real reason behind Russia’s push into Ukraine. It was supposed to change the energy politics by giving Russia a near strangle hold on EU energy dependency. Only that did not happen.
BRICs vs Dollar, that is the real power struggle.
just wait till there’s no such thing as the “dollar” to make black market local currency trades... fun times