Quote from: kryptqnick on April 02, 2022, 06:54:34 PM

Quote from: Bontexkenzy on April 02, 2022, 10:02:35 AM

The invasion of Russia in Ukraine has highlights different repercussions be it positive or negative.The war going on presently is not only between Russia and Ukraine but between Russia and the world at large.the Russian government has every country on its toes now.
Russia may be going through economic decline presently cause by the war.buy I am certain before starting the war,they have projected the long run advantage of the war.
Political war is not a problem to Russia but ecomical war which is presently going on with most of the countries of the world

I don't think they projected economic advantage at all. Russia isn't that dumb not to realize that an invasion would be followed by more sanctions. So they probably accounted for some of those, but allegedly didn't expect the sanctions to be as harsh as they are. Also, they weren't planning a long war. It's clear from both pre-war Western estimates and Russian propaganda that they expected to take over Ukraine very fast, in a matter of days. They didn't expect Ukraine to fight back as much, so now it's been going badly for Russia for a while. It might somewhat stay afloat if the EU doesn't impose a full gas and oil embargo, but I hope they will (or at least some major countries will do so individually), but no economic gain will be a result of this war for Russia.

I would add this here - Russia, having previously delivered ultimatums a couple of times, and having received what it wanted, decided that they would continue to calmly achieve their goals by the method of threats, blackmail, ultimatums, and their fifth column in the EU (Merkel, Macron and many others) . They were sure that the EU, the USA, Britain would allow Ukraine to be swallowed up, once again closing their eyes or "expressing concern." But something went wrong. Billions of euros spent on bribing heads of government and political parties in the EU suddenly depreciated in an instant. The EU, the US and Britain realized that it is impossible, even if it is very profitable, to help the CRIMINAL-world terrorist, and some measures must be taken. The first sanctions and assistance to Ukraine wildly angered Russia, after which the gas terror, pressure and horror stories about a nuclear strike began. And the US, Britain and the EU again decided not to be afraid, but to act. Not all, not to the full extent, not as well as they could, but they didn’t “sink” under the threats of a crazy dwarf! So what is happening now is what we see.