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The Russian invasion of Ukraine is described as the first act of its kind since World War II.  One country invading another.  The entire west is united in opposition.  Just like WWII, right?  We’re cutting off all ties.  We’ll do anything to stop this Russian aggression against a peaceful sovereign nation.  Except that we’re all members of the same world banking software.  Careful.  Don’t want to disrupt that.  Our economies are intertwined.  We in the U.S. are not going to fight directly, like we didn’t at the start of WWII either, but we’ll help Ukraine fight all we can, as long as we don’t disrupt anybody’s financing.

 And fuel.  Pretty much the entire Russian economy depends on trading their oil and gas on the world market.  Western Europe gets a lot of its fuel from Russia.  All of Western Europe is resisting Russia, while Russia is selling them fuel, and they’re buying it.  If the Russians couldn’t sell any oil and gas, their economy would collapse in a heartbeat, but our energy usage is intertwined too.  Careful.  Don’t want to disrupt that either.

 In spite of the repeated references to World War II, and in spite of the fact that it probably feels like WWII in Ukraine, from here it looks like a very careful dance, with guns and bombs.