Russia can have all the backup plans it wants, it doesn't matter. You can't run a modern economy without interacting with the global economy, and interacting wi

Russia can have all the backup plans it wants, it doesn't matter. You can't run a modern economy without interacting with the global economy, and interacting with the global economy is pretty hard when there is an absolutely unprecedented alliance of nations committing to limiting your ability to do so. That fact that Putin went directly to threatening the world with nuclear war speaks volumes to the amount of outs Russia has and the quality of it's "backup plans".