“Eastern Europeans. Corrupt, scheming and devious to the core”
…and mostly in the EU.
“it won’t be for a decade or more.”
That is not the position of the EU leadership, Scholz or Macron.
“when the West is soon forced to pull the plug”
Forced? That is nonsense.
Russian conventional forces would not last a week against NATO. Just Poland, or just Turkey alone would likely be insurmountable for Russia at this point. Nuclear use would bring the rapid end of Russian society.
The nation’s of the Ukraine Contact Group have over fifty times the GDP of Russia (before the sanctions). The plus ups to their defense budgets to fund the war in Ukraine have been on the order of their annual inflation adjustments to their defense budgets - a few percentage points.
The West already paid the big cost last Winter, to cut off Europe’s dependency on Russian gas. That was Russia’s only economic forcing function, and it is gone.
Italy has a bigger GDP than Russia. So does Texas, or California. The West does not even need to go to a wartime economy to defeat Russian forces (which are already consuming 40% of the Russian Federal budget, which in turn has grown to half the nation’s GDP)
Russia can not even force Ukraine - much less force fifty other countries at the same time. And let’s face it, there’s a serious possibility that there won’t be a Russian Federation within a decade, or less
Great! Then we can immediately stop pissing away US taxpayers' hard-earned money on Youcrayne, one of Europe's most corrupt nations, since Russia's on its last legs anyway. Looks like all that Youkazoid talk about the incipient rise of "CCCP 2.0" is just hysterical fantasy. (Which of course, it is.)