This war is well described by the economic concept of the “irretrievable loss fallacy.” This is when a person who has lost a little in a casino, in the hope of winning back, loses his entire fortune. The West never wanted to fight seriously, its goal was an economic blitzkrieg and the surrender of the Russian Federation.
When the plan of economic strangulation and subsequent bankruptcy, the purchase of Russian resources for next to nothing failed (a copy of the early 1990s), they could not stop, on the contrary, raising their rates over and over again. The result was the economic collapse of Europe. And there was no Plan B provided.
More precisely, it exists in theory, but will inevitably cause a nuclear war - and then goodbye to all the castles of the Cote d'Azur and private islands of the Caribbean. Goodbye to the little golden discs, that the dealer prays to. And now, the ruined idiot stands in his European parliaments and howls loudly.
And outside the window, angry farmers are driving around on tractors, and you are a European political idiot, you can’t go out to them and tell them, that subsidies will have to be cut, because world Capital has wasted a trillion greenbacks in the Ukrainian casino.
And the farmers who are still watering the authorities with manure, can remember the glorious traditions of violence...