... As opposed to "build back more centralized" which seems to be the plan. Or is this whole war just a play for the gallery, and russkies have no intention of doing harm to elites?
In a war, i think its always the middle class who loses the most - the sanctions will not break the super rich, just because they cant access 2 billion from their 5b wealth.
What you say is not wrong (lower classes may suffer more though), but what I was suggesting was that mostly the war actions may be theater, and even inconveniencing elites is avoided.