Comment by matthewaveryusa

Genuinely curious : Russia’s GDP is < 10% that of the US or China. What’s up with this fascination with Russia (economically speaking — the humanitarian tragedy they are creating is a different topic)? The only question is if they align with the west or with china —-they’ve already lost as a super power, and their best strategic choice is to become a prized and expensive proxy between the west and china. The thing is, china and the west _trade_, so the calculus for russia is losing on all fronts. they can inflict a decade worth of pain to europe energetically, and then what?