Russia really needs to understand I think Europe won’t fold easily.

They already do, that’s why they keep it at SMO.
You need to understand that they have time on their side.
Russia’s current goal isn’t to get Zelensky on his knees, but to get the US on it’s knees.

And how do you think Europe is building out it’s green energy?
Those windmills and solar panels don’t pop out of the ground
and with Europe and the US de-industrializing, who do you think is building them?

Because all transactions, additions and rule changes are done by consensus of the miners.
And the miners are mostly automated servers that say yes to all transactions, yes to all additions followed by the guidelines set up at creation and no to any large rule changes. of which the changes are already quite limited by the already existing blockchain.
So much so that when a large theft has taken place, either a fork is created or nothing is done about the theft at all.
And thefts have been made.

This is why so many alt-coins keep popping up, as Bitcoin is easily surpassable in terms of function/technology and it’s also why “Satoshi Nakamoto” decided to quit the Bitcoin project and went on to create another.

Tether on the other hand is a promise that you will get US dollars for the Tether you buy. Their transactions are not done by miners, but by Tether Incorperated. Control Tether Incorperated and you control all Tether transactions.

How would they control cryptocoins when that stuff is uncontrollable in the first place?
I can understand Tether or Ripple, but Bitcoin and others not so much.

CIA owns tether?

When everyone forgets that there are actual Taiwanese in Taiwan that are suppressed by the ROC Chinese like Amerindians in the USA.

The way I see it.

“Has communism won?”

It lost almost everywhere, the big exception being China, and now it’s coming back.

“Is it a matter of time before the collapse of the West?”

There is no such thing as “the West”, only the US empire, which has been in territorial decline ever since pro-China Hong Kong won against anti-China Hong Kong.
The time is when Ukraine loses the war, because that’s going to cause political shock waves across the world. Mostly because of the amount of investment the EU and US are pouring into this in order to weaken Russia.
But even if the Ukraine war is won, the decline of the US and EU will continue.
A turn-around would be the US or EU finding massive fossil resources in their area. That’s not going to happen.

“Or will fascism have a complete takeover?”

In the US? Maybe. But the EU will collapse before it can get off the ground. The Ukraine toll will be too large.

“What are some things that will almost certainly happen?”

Ukraine will lose the war.

The moment the war is lost, US and EU public will panic and in response, escalate the issue even further. Holding fascist riots against any nation that’s neutral towards Russia. Chinese, Indians, Muslims. They’re all targeted and it will be done in the name of peace and freedom and democracy.
What’s done against Russia right now, will be done against China, India, Saudi-Arabia and other countries.

The EU far-right will be further split into pro-Russian conservatives and pro-liberal pro-Ukrainians.
EU will be poorer than Russia and China on a per capita basis by 2030.
EU will have civil wars between liberal (+fascists), pro-Russian conservatives (-fascists), and socialists.
Hyperinflation in the US, EU and Japan.
Taiwan will be reunited with the PRC before 2030.
War between US and Saudi-Arabia before 2030.

I disagree due to it’s foreign policy.
US Republicans have no beef with Russia, while US Democrats very much so.