That’s fixable too. If the rest of the world drops all packets to or from Russian CIDR blocks, it doesn’t matter how many fibre links they still have lit up. J

That’s fixable too. If the rest of the world drops all packets to or from Russian CIDR blocks, it doesn’t matter how many fibre links they still have lit up. Just a handful of public clouds and major CDNs dropping packets from Russian IPs would cut them off from almost all Internet services directly or indirectly. Good luck browsing web pages with cdnjs and the like just timing out for you! Russia can route to the rest of the Internet because they’re being allowed to in the same sense that they can sell oil and gas to Europe because Europeans are allowing them to.