“The largely superior Russian equivalent...”
Well, superiority is immaterial if you can’t afford to mass produce the thing and deploy it to your troops on a wide enough scale for it to make an impact.
What does “afford” mean?
The Federal Reserve creates from thin air trillions of dollars. This happens whimsically over the past 10+ years. It was to provide dollars to the now $30 trillion in government debt. Government debt is bonds. The process of buying a bond is lending money to the government. The Fed did that, with dollars created from nothing.
Why would you think Russia does not also have a central bank? They can create all the required pieces of paper with ink on them that the Fed does. Whimsical processes are identical.
The only difference is Russia hasn’t accumulated $30T in Ruble equivalent that they will never repay. Their debt to GDP ratio is a mere fraction of the US.
And more important, their GDP is not defined by government spending — or by bytes of movie entertainment. Rather, it is defined by the joules of energy in oil and gas.