Michael Ortiz68 said:Sanctions aren't doing a damn thing; the little guy just brings them up out of pure boredom every time he speaks, and at the last briefing, he was practically hawking natural gas to Europe like some old lady at a roadside farmers market.
They don't give a damn about sanctions; they just whine every single day about reopening pipelines because they can't stand watching Europeans freeze.🙏
The fact that they're shipping gas to India and China via non-existent pipelines, that they rely on energy exports to the EU to stay afloat, and that their peak industrial achievement is slapping a cage on a T-62 (which they call "modernization" over there) doesn't change reality one bit.
Instead, let's just look at the exchange rates and see who's actually winning.*
*Not that being unable to spend the ruble anywhere else really matters.