[Kazan]

The claims about the devastating impact of the sanctions on Russia FOR TWO YEARS have been as inaccurate as the Chicken Little predictions about about climate change predictions have been for 50 years.

Just a wait a longer, just add a few more sanctions and Russia's economy will be in tatters and the people will revolt and Putin will be driven out of office.

Not even the Western media can hide the fact that Biden's sanction war has been failure:

https://www.newsweek.com/how-russia-won-sanctions-war-west-opinion-1861645

It is now abundantly clear that Russia has defeated the Western sanctions regime that was intended to cripple its economy and force its withdrawal from Ukraine. Instead of collapsing, the Russian economy is growing rapidly. Russia's GDP grew by an impressive 5.5 percent in the third quarter of 2023. Final figures for the year are not yet in, but Russian GDP growth for all of 2023 should exceed 3 percent. Ironically, the Russians are doing rather better than those who imposed sanctions on them. In 2023, the U.S. economy grew by 2.4 percent while the German economy shrank, and the EU as a whole grew by less than 1 percent.

[Rockingham]

Again, total GDP numbers include Russian military production. In reality, this subtracts from civilian living standards. More broadly, sanctions have increased costs and diminished the quality of Russian civilian and military production. These effects compound over time. And Russia's state finances are deteriorating due to sanctions and Russian military spending.