The loonies running the Western empire may well detest their opponents in Russia (and China). But the point that’s being demonstrated so graphically right now is that there’s nothing effectual that they can do to prevent the slide into anti-globalist multipolarity, with their own arrogant hege-wings severely clipped in the process.
That’s why they’re reduced to ‘sanctions’, carefully half-baked, with small-print getouts to try to avoid the horrendous damage that they would do to the Western gics’ own interests, as blowback. Add to those bad jokes the acres and acres of screeching propaganda lies, as the only other - equally ballsless - response that they have; also ultimately ineffectual, however much frothing hysteria they might fluff up briefly amongst the screen-hypnotised troobleevers in the West. 
Watching that video of the Security Council meeting in the Kremlin, with all VVP’s chief crew, one after another, saying: ‘Yes, do it!’ it’s clear to me beyond much doubt that the Russians have planned carefully, and will shrug off all these straw-spears, the ‘sanctions’ and the lie-screeching, without much in the way of difficulty.
Meanwhile, they’ll continue what they’re really doing: pushing forward with their slowish, careful taking of control of the Ukraine, taking care to do as little damage as possible to the ordinary citizens, their property and their civil infrastructure, so as to avoid making them hostile. They’re even doing - as also predicted by the reality-connected commentators - careful treatment of any ordinary conscript soldier in the Ukrainian military who will lay down arms and surrender: treating them well, giving them food and lodging, getting a signature from each that they will not engage again in hostile acts against Russia, and then setting them free to go home.
As this ‘soft invasion’ - as Scott Ritter describes it - proceeds, they’re hunting or simply killing in battle only the nazi criminals and lunatics, pushing forward effectively with their determination to make a denazified Ukraine neutral territory, with no Az weapons or military personnel in the country. Also - very strikingly - they’re demonstrating to the entire world (yet again! Apparently 08.08.08 in Georgia wasn’t clear enough) that they can and will take drastic, decisive military action - quietly backed to the hilt by China - against anyone who moves to threaten Russia and Russians seriously. Which of course is what the Anglozionist-empire/NATO bloc have been doing incrementally for years, to the point where it was ultimate decision time for Vlad’s bunch.
The delusional fools in the Swamp have been pushing themselves towards this punch in the mouth for years; and now they’ve got it, and they’re on their arses, wondering what hit them. Reality, babes! Wake up to it: your time as world-bully is over.
As VVP famously said, speaking of a lesson learned in tough Leningrad when he was boy: ‘When you know a fight is inevitable, strike first!’ For twenty years he’s restrained his own advice, trying to be peaceable, realistic and diplomatic. The Swampies took that as ‘weakness’, to be exploited. And now they’ve received the ‘strike first’; with nothing in their own locker with which to respond, as they’re discovering to their consternation. Hence all the truly hysterical tsunami of lie-screeching. 
gets what is going on (without any real understanding of the global background)