This might be the first admission in western media that the sanctions are having a blowback effect:
No doubt, Russia is feeling the impact of sanctions, but so is the west. Indeed, one reason for the over-egging of claims that the Russian economy is close to collapse is that western policymakers know their own voters are suffering from the collateral damage: dearer energy, rising food prices and falling living standards.
There would have been no invasions. The war was started in response to NATO expansion towards Russia, which itself included invasions such as Yugoslavia. This a well documented fact that you continue to ignore. Russia tried to resolve this problem peacefully for 8 years, and it was perfectly happy if Ukraine implemented Minsk which the west now tells was never meant to be implemented. Now thanks to the genius of western diplomacy, the west got itself into a proxy war with Russia that the west is currently losing.
Meanwhile, it’s pretty rich for you to moan about waves of more country invasions when it’s the west that’s been invading countries for decades. Learn a bit about what happened to Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, or Iraq and who invaded them. Of course, I understand that westerners don’t consider people who don’t have blond hair and blue eyes to be human, so I get why you wouldn’t care about those invasions.