"MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has returned to the top ten largest economies and ranked the eighth for the first time since 2014 by producing $2.3 trillion worth of goods and services in 2022, data from the World Bank and statistical services analyzed by Sputnik showed on Sunday."According to Sputnik? ðŸ¤. Not even the Russia Central Bank or agencies just repeating official Russian numbers? 🤠Post #2 explains how those numbers are made up. The real validation is what Russia shows of its economic and industrial capacity and trade. What that shows is the Russian economy is facing sufficient hardships that pretending the sanctions are having no effect is increasingly harder to maintain.
Check out World Bank. They have their own numbers and more correct than CIA.
In your shoes, it makes more sense to think about your own country. Debt ceiling debates are going to have different implications with de-dollarization. See Zimbabwe.