Our Western hypocrisy is being found out now by the rest of the world. The outcome of the provoked war in Ukraine is rather irrelevant. It's the shameless and overly arrogant weaponization of the Western banking system that is its real outcome. And as the BRICS hold most of the worlds valuable resources the West depends on, without this leverage the West is playing a losing hand. Putin knows this and so does Xi Jinping.

Your enemy's strength is also their ultimate weakness, so let them slowly fall on their own sword. Both countries have consciously over the past decade been moving their funds out of the US and out of the dollar. And as the debt addicts keep on spending, already total US debt (private & governmental) is well above 4x GNP, and growing, and not compensated by double digit economic growth figures, so the only way out is by depreciation (aka inflation) of the dollar. Making it worse and robbing their own people. (social welfare, military pension funds, etc.).