Indeed, the East needs these circuмstances in order to bring a harder shift to China's Belt and Road Initiative and alternative systems (CIPS instead of SWIFT, etc). Russia and China will continue to bleed the West while its controlled opposition leadership destroys it from within itself. The most difficult trick will be to decapitate the United States without inviting a devastating reprisal from its aged nuclear arsenal. By the time they're done, the starving masses will be begging to worship the Antichrist if it enables them to survive.