Biden also kept giving mixed signals in the lead up to the war, that if Russia just did a limited operation (say donbass strengthening or some corridor move with crimea etc, who knows what he meant).....there would be limited or no response from US and thus NATO.
Putin definitely took this as a...
Russia also recognised Ukraine's sovereignty...in significant established ways. It has never been a matter like say Taiwan (PRC vs ROC within one nation effectively from unresolved civil war).....or a host of other long term conflicts and tensions.
Putin has literally visited the Ukrainian...
Sure it can.
It will price in a "halved" labour force....and then all prices that are referenced and based on it that signal to other forces (people often assume these will magically hold when they wont, they will adjust to the social current).
Definition of the modern economy has been...