Their daily lives will be worse off under Soviet errr... Putin's control... but they will be alive and hopefully uninjured.
The real issue is what will happen next?
The Euros will be over this in a news cycle and happily trading goods for energy with the Russians in short time.
The same is true here, where we will be more obsessed with the MLB labor dispute.
Putin will take a break from putting humpty dumpy USSR back together again until one of the Baltic states annoys him.
The CCP will bide its time while it practices amphibious landings until the time is right and Silicon Valley, our corporations and the NBA will support their takeover of Taiwan.
Our economy will tank under the pressure of inflation and the Dems will claim that only central government should be in control of everything except for high tech profits.
TS Elliot was wrong... it doesn't end with a whimper but with a "transition."