The hogwash is amusing.
The article is useless without mentioning that all of the above did cost the EU in the excess of $1 trillion and going to cost more in future.
Russia is developing new markets as we speak.
For a buck fifty lmao.
Russia has limited options for “new” markets.
1. The biggest export by far is petroleum and petroleum products. Russia is already selling all it can without restriction, because this a commodity. Indeed, due to the price caps its probably selling more! But there is only so much petroleum demand in the world, and there is a lot of petroleum around.
2. Piped natural gas (#2 export) is the worst problem. You need pipelines to reach alternate markets. Russia already has pipelines to reach all potential markets in reach, westward. China is already served by pipelines from Eastern Siberia, which is sourced from an entirely separate set of gas basins than that which is servicing western customers. These sources are very distant from each other, and there is no connection between the two. Russia and China could, and are, fairly slowly, developing that Eastern trade, but it is not enhanced by extra gas from the west that Russia cannot sell. China isnt a substitute for western markets.
Worth stopping your Nazi dictator Putin and his oligarchs from conquering Ukraine
There’s a lot of Lee, Patel, Khan, and Muhammads in this world.
Not today, but longer term, flipping off SWIFT will have repercussions.
Western countries should concentrate on not destroying themselves demographically and culturally by allowing low IQ 3rd world trash into their countries.
Demographics is destiny.