Once Russia got booted out of the SWIFT international banking system I knew it was a wrap for Putin. Biden sat everyone down and said "This is not a drill, we are doing this for real." For better or worse the U.S. economy can bleed out for fukking decades and keep chugging along like nothing from an outside perspective. Russia can't do that. They are nowhere near being a self sufficient nation that can manufacture all of the products needed for internal consumption let alone a sustained war against the combined military industrial might of NATO wielded by Ukraine. The only way this ends quickly is if it happens within Russia itself. Otherwise Biden is gonna let Putin drag this out to Russia's detriment for as long as possible.
Crimea by October.
