Breaking the inertia on a whole bunch of geopolitical norms has been the largest result of all this mess.
Freezing foreign reserves and restricting access to international financial messaging systems etc is probably the biggest change to the status quo and the reverberations of that have set in motion huge changes.
The unilateral sanctions have been levied before, but usually only against "backwater" places that have no chance to fight back and thus most countries with a functional military and economy were never too scared of it.
Applying the same sort of doctrine against a functional (even if barely so) nation like Russia has set off alarm bells in every nation that doesn't identify as "Western". This is why you are seeing actual progress towards international trade being settled in non-USD currencies. The breaking of petrodollar and the shifting allegiance of OPEC away from the West after ~40 years of tenuous "cooperation" is also a big consequence of this.
It's very unclear waters ahead now. I'm not really sure breaking all these norms was worth it vs just sending traditional support and utilising traditional sanctions. If Russia was expelled from Ukraine within months of enacting it then I might have had a different view but now I'm sceptical this was a good idea.
Breaking the inertia on a whole bunch of geopolitical norms has been the largest result of all this mess.
Freezing foreign reserves and restricting access to international financial messaging systems etc is probably the biggest change to the status quo and the reverberations of that have set in motion huge changes.
The unilateral sanctions have been levied before, but usually only against "backwater" places that have no chance to fight back and thus most countries with a functional military and economy were never too scared of it.
Applying the same sort of doctrine against a functional (even if barely so) nation like Russia has set off alarm bells in every nation that doesn't identify as "Western". This is why you are seeing actual progress towards international trade being settled in non-USD currencies. The breaking of petrodollar and the shifting allegiance of OPEC away from the West after ~40 years of tenuous "cooperation" is also a big consequence of this.
It's very unclear waters ahead now. I'm not really sure breaking all these norms was worth it vs just sending traditional support and utilising traditional sanctions. If Russia was expelled from Ukraine within months of enacting it then I might have had a different view but now I'm sceptical this was a good idea.