What a bunch of malicious @sshoes.
Russia’s population is in decline. The only reason they show growth after 2015 was the annexation of Crimea.
Putin is not about to lose what the Orientals call “face”.
The typical American lifestyle is far above the average lifestyle.
Getting near daily deliveries from Amazon is extremely rare in Russia.
The everyday things Russians buy come from Russia - bread, veggies, meat and energy.
The apartment buildings Russians typically live in will withstand decades of sanctions.
The trams and buses urban Russians get around in will continue to function.
Replacement car & tractor parts can and will be made, in Russia.
Putin lives in far more luxurious residential circumstances than even Hollywood stars. Those structures are centuries old. They will still stand even after Hunter Biden’s offspring die of old age.
It is my understanding that in Russia WW2 is called the Great Patriotic War. It unified the Soviet Union.
This is how arrogant and out-of-touch-with-reality DC neocons and central-planners think.
“Expanding oil production to drive down prices” sounds so clever, but they don’t mention that the US oil industry lost a collective $250 billion in the 8 years before 2021 due to their “success” in fracking. No one in the US oil industry or their financiers will go through that again.
Russia’s economy is about the size of Italy’s. Russia is not the problem.
The groups threatening our country are the Cartels - and cartels working with the Chinese.