I am pretty sure this will more or less completely sever Russia from the western economy for a long time to come. The European dependence on Russian gas is goin

I am pretty sure this will more or less completely sever Russia from the western economy for a long time to come. The European dependence on Russian gas is going to go away quickly (or at least as quickly as these things go). As long as China goes along with Putin's madness they will manage to shuffle along, but if these things continue I am not so sure. China loves stability and trade with Europe more than it likes the European economy becoming more self-sustained due to some ex-soviet mobster with power hunger. I look at it this way: the Soviet Union was relevant in many ways. Not just as a military power. It was important to excel at every area. Like science, culture, sports, space travel and so on. Today Russia has three things that makes it important: natural resources, sports (and apparently a good doping programme), and military power. They are slowly becoming irrelevant on the international scene in all other areas.