while they probably were hoping to take over ukraine in a matter of weeks, russia isn't exactly losing by keeping the war going. west is increasingly getting fucked economically and socially and we're going to be hit with a new wave of inflation, which is going to be bigger than before. all tools to control inflation have been exhausted. we're basically living the 60s-70s all over again, but with far less societal cohesion. russia holding a big ass commodity producer basically off the market and europe letting go of cheaper russian energy, is one hell of a recipe for disaster.  commodity prices are going to go absolutely apeshit and prices everywhere will fly through the roof. russia being a commodity based nation isn't going to be hit anywhere near as badly as the western service economies will. upcoming chink tariffs aren't exactly well priced either.  markets are probably going to pull one last giga spike in speculative tech investing and then everything collapses to shit and social unrest starts.
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