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    They thought this before world war 1. Haven’t looked at the stats but I would say Ukraine’s biggest trading partner was Russia and Russia is fine persecuting its way despite being removed from a fair chunk of the international trading community

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      They thought this before world war 1.

      I mean, yeah, that’s kind of my point? Because then we got “the war to end all wars” and the we got a second one.

      Russia is fine persecuting its way despite being removed from a fair chunk of the international trading community

      Exactly. Russia suffers few economic consequences from attacking other nations because it is “removed from a fair chunk of the international trading community”.