The most fucked up part is without the Russian sanctions and capturing held reserves we would be able to coast the rest of my lifetime without much change.
Geniuses thought they could use financialization to break the bear, but it only exposed how weak fiat and debt is compared to life giving commodities. Even South America is nationalizing resources like lithium now to gain political power on the world stage. US was proven to be all bark and no bite, and no one takes it seriously since.