Most importantly, the whole western world has been caught with their pants down. The pax americana is no more. NATO doesnt command respect anymore, the EU is defenseless, and nobody will risk his life or sacrifice anything for the illigitimate Biden administration. This will massively accelerate the ongoing collapse of the west.

The fertile ground for this crisis is the intellectual and moral corruption of the western populations after 75 years of unparalleled peace and prosperity.

Putin will play cat and mouse with its neighbours as he pleases. The reaction in the EU, UK and USA will be very similar to the reaction to nazi Germany in the early 1930s. Appeasement, display of cowardice and complacency in the face of open aggression. We have the weakest possible leadership in almost all EU countries, all these clowns are completely in over their heads and have absolutely no clue of anything. Any turkish cleaning woman in the EU parliament would be able do a better job than these zeros.