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One important aspect here is that the "west" has a lot of paper capital. It's not real money, not real assets. They gained this "capital" through the threat of violence alone. That means the only thing they have is the potential for destruction. This "capital" you cannot eat and it does not provide shelter. It may create some kind of happiness among those who hate the world and want to see it burn, but it's limited to that much in terms or positivity.
Now that someone threw a wench into their machine, the paper money must be put to the test. It was not meant to be used, you were supposed to just fear their weapons of destruction and hand over the things you created.
But they took this too far. When you rob someone down to the point that they can no longer live, the person can only die or fight back. He cannot hand over what was already stolen. He has nothing, so the response to the threat of violence, will be actual violence. And it will be the kind of desperate violence a person uses when pushed against the wall fearing for his life. It won't be that of the coward trying to act like a bully.
So now all the nations who relied on this threat of violence for their sustenance, have to send their weapons to Ukraine. Where they are quickly used up, because they were only meant as repellents, not as actual weapons of war.
How long until it start to sink in that the threat of violence no longer exists? After emptying their stockpiles while relying on free market production of arms instead of national state production, their hands are now empty. Expensive and advanced "weapon systems" that look good on the record, but in reality consist of 2-3 long distance artillery units. That's what some of the governments had. It takes 2-3 bombs and they have no defense. The whole point was that no one was supposed to throw 2-3 bombs at them.