Russia is basically self-sufficient in resources and can blow any country (including ours) off the map if they need to.
They’ll be fine. They’ll wait out the little temper tantrum from the West and things will return to normal.
If Russia wants to disappear, the can take on NATO in a war, you seem to forget that we can nuke them back to the stone age.
Let’s see how self sufficient they are without access to the international banking system.
Little temper tantrum? Good grief BobL, is their no depths you will sink to in your support of Putin?
You underestimate how much the media loves these kinds of stories, heck they just barely stopped endless reporting on the other missing Malaysian jet. This is not going to be some "temper tantrum". Putin has blood all over his hands for this and the pressure will continue ratcheting up to finally get Europeans to agree to actual serious sanctions against Putin's Russia.
Russia is basically self-sufficient in resources and can blow any country (including ours) off the map if they need to.
Do you even know what your talking about here? Russia is largely a basketcase with declining populations, rampant alcoholism, sky high abortion rates, etc. They are not self sufficient and if real sanctions are imposed they'd do serious damage to Putin's economy.
As to their military prowess. Russia has lots of nukes, so sure, they could blow up any country just like we can - but that isn't a serious option no matter what the consequences of their role in killing 298 innocent people on a civilian airliner. There is going to be hell to pay for this in the end that will amount to much more than a "temper tantrum". Russian media and people like yourself may not realize the ground will shift around your hero's feet, but it will happen.
Yes, all these dimwits rattling sabers are all talk and buffoonery. The nature of war was changed forever with the invention of nukes. Nobody in his right mind would start a war with a nuclear power over anything other than a direct invasion. The US is not going to get into a war with Russia over the Ukraine.
I still don’t understand why the people in the east can’t secede if that’s their desire anyway. We could use a little secession in this country if the libs keep assaulting our values and liberty.