No resource is nearly limitless. Even if it were close to that, it still has to be properly accessed, allocated and managed. Russia is not of course limitless but in theory it could be close to self-reliance. They can grow crops and raise cattle and supply their own energy, etc. They have their own industries. But they can also screw it up, blowing it on wars and weapons; and of course if the reports about their egg crisis are close to accurate.
The US is the same. We could be near totally self sustaining. It’s just unfortunate that our political leadership is hell bent on selling us out and making us reliant on the rest of the world for a few pennies a pound and on fictions like the need for solar and “car battery packs” to profit a few people and empower a handful more.
So, annexing 40,000 square miles of land that comprised 70-80% of Ukraine's GDP, building a land bridge from mainland Russia to Crimea and controlling almost all of the Black Sea coastline is not an example of winning?
That is all the land Russia ever intended to liberate going into this war.
You're so filled with hate that you can't even think rationally about the war or about Russia.
People are like you are danger to safety of the planet.
The muscovites are rich in natural resources, but does that translate into goods?
Why did they depend on western optics and electronics for their arms, why are a majority of cars sold Chinese now? Why did they go to countries and buy back helicopter engines sold to them?
Why hasn’t the t-14 or 57 show up on battlefield?
Why are they buying munitions from Iran and NK?
Why are they having all kinds of problems with heat plants, pipes and electrical grid?
Understand I don’t think they are close to collapse, who knows but all is not well and the narrative that sanctions have no effect seems unlikely.
There is a saying, things go slow till they don’t. Who predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union?
To all here who attack the messenger and not the message, that is not an argument for your case