manxu

I thought that was the plan all along?

I’ve heard it called, El Azkaban. Catchy.

They’re convinced everyone else in the world HAS to do business with us

That seems to be a widespread opinion amongst a lot of the international elite. Germany thought Putin was never going to risk war because it would kill his European fossil fuel revenue and destroy his economy.

Then Putin himself did the same thing, thinking he could starve Europe in a fossil fuel winter.

Reminds me somewhat of when Paul Bremer, Bush Jr’s “vice-roy” in Iraq, decided to disband the Iraqi Army overnight, leaving tens of thousands of heavily armed Iraqis stranded without a job or source of income. IIRC, that’s how the Iraqi insurgency started.