Russia/Putin has indeed biten off more than he can chew. Taking on an adversary(West/U.S as a block) thats still several leagues more powerful than your and basically control the current world order/financial system is a huge miscalculation. You should bide your time until you are stronger and powerful enough to be able to offset any such powers before you can start thinking of going head on against them(just like the Chinese and to a lesser extent Indians seem to be doing.lol). I think Putin needs to fire his advisors. You ought to know your own strength,limits and never overestimate it, else you might regret when its too little too late. Now im afriad its too late for Putin to turn back, if he make compromises now, he will lose face in front of his people(on which he relies to rule like an absolute president) and the world, if he doesnt the sanctions will continue for an even longer time and crush/set back Russia's economy several years behind/in recession. So to be honest, even me myself if i was in his shoes, it will be hard for me to know which decision to make that will be best for my country and thaw relations(lift off of sanctions) with the west. He put himself in this position in the first place though. Expect it to get even worse in coming months/years. Already the capital flight from Russia this year alone is more than Vietnams entire GDP and growing.
lol, that's what we call rejectionist. You will see a lot of that in Russia, and curiously, you will also see a lot of them here on PDF.
People are blindly following their government and their nationalism, this happened everywhere and all over the world. Like what the American Public do when they declare war to Britain in 1812 and like when the Dane declare war on Prussia in 1864. Both of which if anyone in the leadership have any sense or brain would know that is a war that can never be won. People are clouded by their sentiment, and politician capitalise on that, solely because there are nothing else to look for, other than being a patriot and dive in head first into shxt.
Politician do that to draw attention away from themselves, and capitalize every moment and everyway they can imagine. Then comeback and say we are sorry, we should have seen it, it could never be done. But by then, thousand life would have been already wasted, and many more are suffering.
It's actually funny and meanwhile tragic to see people here react to this type of situation. Reaction like "Things are going to be okay in Russia I believe" or "Russia is tough when the evil west conspire against them" Well, thing will not get okay unless there are something to be done, and keeping this posture is not one of them, as long as Russia keeping this posture, the world are going to sanction them, and they will not be okay as long as sanction in place. No country can survive alone, that's a lesson we learnt over and over again during the course of history. If Russian leader is keep heading in that direction, there are not going to be any "Okay" afterward, they would be going straight to hell in a hand basket.
What even more tragic is those people actually rooting on separation of a country by a third party. I guess it is easy to type in your air conditioned room while the suffering is mile and miles away
The US never has hegemony in the ME.
