Russia and China combining for the sake of their economy won't work. Both can be neutralised by cutting trade and other countries can become very prosperous in their place. Russia will lose out financially from this escapade anyway, every country must now be thinking of alternatives and the only thing left now is to show that the world does have the military balls to go head to head with Russia. A lot goes on behind the scenes but let's not forget that North Korea stepped down a lot when the USA flexed its muscles which must've been from an economic standpoint rather than military threats.
i read from a local nuclear expert that it looks like the tanks just made some dust clouds which raised the radiation temporarily. we'll see in a few days.
Putin seriously underestimated Ukraine.
To quote Paul Giamatti from Billions: 'The only enemy more dangerous than a man with unlimited resources is one with nothing to lose.'
It already doesn't seem to be going well for Putin. They aren't making as much progress as intelligence thought and they keep losing aircraft. The scary thing is if Putin was insane enough to decide on this in the first place, the sky is the limit for his insanity. Now they're hitting random ships and driving over citizens in tanks. Sadly, I think anything is on the table for him, to scale of force below nuclear weapons. And even then I still worry about the nukes in the hands of this guy.