Essentially Russia isn't a big enough economy to have the clout that the Chinese (and possibly the Indian) one hasKateR wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 12:55 pmI agree, was merely sharing some news regarding China and their input so far and what might happen, up until very recently they had done nothing, they abstained in the UN vote when many expected them to vote with Russia, they "appear" to be keeping well away from upsetting the financial system that has served them well up to now, once they embraced that part of capitalism.
This move for me is significant in allowing the Ruble to drop sharply and they will gain monetarily from the Russian economy being in the toilet, while not joining in regarding sanctions they closed an avenue, which was helping the Russian economy to some degree. By doing this it is contributing to the Russian financial hurt, which I think will be a main reason for the downfall and Putin's willingness to negotiate and allow a "retreat" through Ukraine concessions, but ultimately leading to a stop to this evil war.
I believe he never expected the fight on the ground or financially that has happened, but for him and his cronies it is only really the financial actions that have hurt them personally, it will obviously be someone else's fault and not there's.
You could argue as well that China and the West economy is so intertwined that any disruption to it would be really bad for both, while you certainly cannot make the same argument for the Russian
And if Russia are desperately discounting their oil to try to sell it to China or India, then all they are doing is turning themselves into being more reliant of those two rather than the West, and either option now requires Russia to be the junior partner
The miscalculations of Putin are just adding up