[tlozo]

Despite our best-efforts Russia's economy has been outperforming ours

LOL, Russia "officially" has 18% interest rates(Remember Carter years?) with a -4% contraction in GDP

[fireman15]

It is just so cute that you have found a source with a graph that tries to make it look like the Russian economy is in a recession. Never mind that this flies in the face of nearly every other source available...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263772/gross-domestic-product-gdp-in-russia/

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/gdp-gross-domestic-product

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=RU

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MKTGDPRUA646NWDB

https://en.thebell.io/the-russian-economy-in-9-graphs/

Most of these sources do not take into account that the Russians have been conducting a huge percentage of their international trading partners under the table to avoid the completely worthless “sanctions” that even our Western European allies have been ignoring.

The problem that we have here is that the Russians know from multiple past experiences that eventually the West will give up and walk away despite the rhetoric and propaganda from you and your Freeper buddies. This entire exercise from long before the “invasion” has been a complete waste from every possible perspective.