@PolAmKrakow, Russia has a budget surplus and big foreign exchange reserves. Putin may be a psychopath, but he isn't stupid enough to start a war unprepared, I suppose:
businessinsider.com.pl/finanse/gigantyczne-rezerwy-walutowe-i-nadwyzka-budzetowa-tak-rosja-przygotowala-gospodarke/h6whd2s
Whatever sanctions the EU and the US are planning - they have to be serious...
And for God's sake... We have to become independent from the Russian gas already... What Russia has to do for this to happen? Invade Poland??
Btw, according to CNN Belarusian troops also entered Ukraine. So much for Slavic "brotherhood"...