Think many that believed the old line that sanctions don't work looked how they were implemented against South Africa (diamonds are easy to smuggle) and Cuba (a self-contained dictator-run semi-impoverished island which USSR subsidized for decades) and North Korea (same except not an island but even more impoverished that China sorta subsides). Russia was living La Vida Loca, relatively speaking, until Putin's War. "I want my MTV .... and TP"
Major Russian firm on the brink despite not being sanctioned as Putin faces collapse ONE of Russia's largest mining firms has been thrown into disarray despite not even being directly sanctioned as disruption ripples through the country's corporate world. https://www.express.co.uk/finance/c...-firm-brink-not-sanctioned-ukraine-war-latest
How much a Big Mac costing in Moscow these days? Oh wait........my bad. Burgernomics The Big Mac index https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index Our interactive currency comparison tool
The good ole Soviet days are coming back... 4 ways Russia is trying to prove it can live with sanctions https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/business/russia-living-with-sanctions/index.html
The only economy Russia has left is looting.... and even the looted goods are no longer profitable to the original looters -- only to the FSB buddies of Putin to steal the loot.
FSB will give half of the loot to their officers and sell the other half on the black market themselves.