Spin as long as China and India and Iran are basically buying anything that was sanctioned on the black market Russia won’t care
It's ALL GOOD.
The NYT is still peddling “hopium” to the masses, thinking that the Russian Federation is very close to economic collapse. Do not assume such, so long as the CCP regime in China and the Islamic Republic of Iran are still their allies and highly active trading partners.
And the Russians still have a stranglehold on most of the EU. The Russians go down, everybody goes down.