“Not “facts””
Yes, facts.
Not opinions - facts.
What do you assert is different?
Are Russian stock values up? No. In fact they have tanked.
Is Foreign Direct Investment in Russia up? No, the fact is that there is a sudden dramatic withdrawal of investment.
Is Russian total GDP up? No. The fact is that it is imploding. Whole industries are collapsing - manufacturing, airlines, tourism and advertising; as just a few examples.
Natural gas exports have plummeted. They are losing the European market, and won’t be able to bring that product to other markets for years, if ever. Even oil export volumes are down marginally, and prices have passed the war shock peak. Oil is now selling for less than the day before Russia invaded.
The Government’s finances have swung into growing deficit, and they are printing money at a hugely inflationary rate.
You deny these are facts?
Which is untrue?
Russian GDP is contracting sharply and their Government is suddenly going broke. Broke before Christmas at this rate.
Then it is just print money like Zimbabwe, and sell off natural resources and assets to China at fire sale prices (also like Zimbabwe).
Putin has totally destroyed the dreams of the Russian middle class to live a prosperous life, like those in the West. He has trashed the gains of the whole generation since the collapse of soviet communism.
Unemployment and bankruptcies (personal and business) are way up in Russia, and accelerating. Inflation is bad there now, and will likely slide into hyperinflation over the next year or two, if the current trends of ruble printing continue.
“Natural gas exports have plummeted.”
Can their natural gas fields infrastructure degrade due to not having the pressure relieved via exports? Oil wells the same.
Who told you they were facts?