All the Western cutting ties with Russia has made most people I know (we are all Chinese) much more favorable towards the Great Firewall. If the West cut the ties with China, the damage is much less given that we are already in an effective LAN.
The response here would suggest the opposite.
If ICANN kicks out a country, we'd very soon see the end of ICANN because other countries will have no trust left in the organization.
I'm just ridiculing the comment that said 'go ahead, we don't need it'.
Russia has not been cut off from the internet. It is suffering highly focused DDoS attacks which are not originating due to any type of sanction or new law, or as a protest measure from companies. These are actions of individual hackers or hacker groups. Compared to the actions of REvil or Conti, these are absolutely harmless.
The western ideal of the internet is very well described in that rejection letter, which might as well become a historical document in what it is trying to express. Now, what commercial network providers decide to route or not, is a very different story. But, from the looks of it, no routes have been dropped, and should that happen, peering agreements could provide workarounds, even around countries. It's usually the non-western countries which are implementing blocking so that their citizens have a restricted access, not the other way around.
You seem to confuse the internet with the global market. From the perspective of the global markets' current sanctions, I can obviously understand your concern and motivation to be prepared in the future. But we are also concerned, because the harm goes both ways. It's an almost unnecessary recession which will affect many areas, where specially spaceflight-related decisions are already being very noticeable events, since they are so highly dependent on collaboration. Collaboration which was successful, until now.
The Minsk Agreement could have been implemented within one or two years, the will to do so was there.
The Great Firewall just makes you used to not having free access to information, which would happen when a network is isolated.
When this happens in the West, you see a lot of political discord, as is occurring right now. But when it happened in the USSR, discontent built up behind the scenes until it exploded in a series of revolts that led to a decade of stagnation and corruption in eastern Europe.
So, critique appreciated, but I'll take our flaws over your flaws.