The ruling class isn’t homogeneous though. You have people who built their wealth on the relationship with Europe, but now a lot of the ties are largely cut. And trade with the Global South is now replacing it. So, you have a new group of capitalists who are not interested in Europe in the slightest, and even see resumption of trade with Europe as a threat to the niches they occupy. I don’t think the actions Russia is currently taking suggest that she represents the capitalists who are in the ascendant right now.

I somehow doubt that the reich will last another 10 years at this point

I’m all for western fash going to Ukraine to come back in body bags.

Do you see her as a major driving force in Russian politics that would decide whether there would be strikes on Europe though?

I’m guessing he’s forcing the vassals to release what meager reserve they have left to ride out the election.

Which Russian government officials have any investments in Europe at this point?

The reality of the situation is that there’s just not enough energy to go around. So, it’s a different situation from the US doing mere economic bullying of Europe. This time there’s not enough pie to go around, and Europe will be left to starve.

There are real shortages at this point, and the US doesn’t produce nearly enough diesel to cover the shortfall. The US is looking at an economic crisis at this point with diesel going through the roof. Much of the transportation and farming depend on it. There’s absolutely going to be a cap.

“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

― Henry Kissinger

Yeah, this isn’t going to help for long, and once reserves run dry in a few months, the US will cut off exports leaving Europe out to dry.

yeah an energy crisis right before the election would be a disaster for them

I suspect the global economy is kind of like a chicken running with its head cut off at this point. The energy shortage is structural and cannot be fixed in the near term. And the effects of that have been masked by the fact that tankers were already out when the war started, and took some time to get to their destination, then by countries opening up the reserves. Now both of these amortization measures are exhausted, and we’ll see the real price of energy take effect.

they’re trying their best to get WW3 going, and looks like large swaths of the European public doesn’t understand what that would mean for them

There’s no way they can pull off defeating Iran either, but here we are.

We’ll see, it seems like he surrounded himself with like minded people this time around. Owning the libs could be seen as a power move by them.

At this point, there is a good chance the US would do what they did in Venezuela if Lula wins.

Just the liberal capitalist world because the mask of liberalism has to be pulled back in times of crisis to reveal how the system truly functions.

With all the bases levelled, it’s highly likely they have little choice but to pull troops out.

to be fair, it’s not like a fully functional brain is a requirement for in the US military