Seems to me that Putin is simply converting his oil into gold.
Since Europe/France/Germany say they won’t pay in ruble, they can now pay in gold.
Eventually, Russia will have more gold than anyone else... which means they can crush the petro dollar at will if that hasn’t happened already... Thanks to Biden freezing Russian held US dollars.
Thats a fail. Russia already folded on the demand for rubles and will accept euros.
Germany says to still pay for Russian gas in euros/dollars after Scholz-Putin call
March 30, 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4051026/posts
In a phone call between the leaders, Putin told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that nothing would change for European partners and payments would be made in euros and transferred to Gazprom bank, which would convert the money into roubles, the German spokesperson said.
Gazprom is NOT sanctioned - so Olaf Doltz gets the fig leaf of not paying in roubles, while Pooty gets the cash through the unsanctioned Gazprom bank.
ALREADY there are Twitter dolts calling for Gazprom to be sanctioned.
"Let's shut down the German economy!" say the dolts.