Countries that are producing arms can do well, sure, no disagreeing there. But one of Russian’s main sources of wealth on the national level is oil which the US absolutely failed to sanction because Europeans, for obvious reasons, said “ok, we said sanction Russia, not commit suicide.”
But beyond oil, Russia has built up a resilience for decades now to US influence. Remember when the sanctions hit and all these corporations immediately had to leave to be in compliance. Russia just has their own McDonald’s (and a bunch of other examples). They have China on their border, a close ally of Russia and strong trade partner. Whatever resources or commodities the US sought to remove from the Russian economy they either had domestically produced replacements ready to go or China can fill the need if not.
Sanctions just simply do not work. If the US actually desired an end to the war in Ukraine it could’ve ended it two years and let Ukraine negotiate the eastern provinces to become independent as Putin has said since the start. Ukraine surely would’ve already done this had it not been for the US CIA and NATO pushing them with false promises of joining NATO (and a healthy far right wing in Ukraine with a gun to Zelenskyy’s head basically so he can’t ever give up or he’s gone- also supported snd strengthened by CIA).
Even in your own reply here you are saying the war is propping Russia up. I assume you think that is sustainable until the war is over and then Russia’s economy will collapse. Maybe. But that also indirectly concedes that sanctions are not working against Russia if it’s still able to wage effective war and maintain a stable domestic situations. The sanctions aren’t supposed to be “oh damn, well after the war is over, THEN the Russians will suffer and they’ll really regret that war!” They’re supposed to put pressure and force a faster end to conflict right now… which is objectively just not happening. Russia seems to have basically indefinite capacity to continue this war even with all the US’s harsh sanctions. The only thing further the US could even try (they already blew up that pipeline, remember that?) is really really forcing Europe to not buy oil sold via proxy which came from Russia. Is that gonna happen? Of course not because Germans aren’t going to destroy their own economy and their own standard of living all for the benefit of the US getting what it wants. And it’s debatable if cutting off all sales entirely would even work because again China can just keep buying all the excess. Unless China decides to start sanctioning Russia and stop purchasing their oil (never happening) Russia will be fine.
Countries that are producing arms can do well, sure, no disagreeing there. But one of Russian’s main sources of wealth on the national level is oil which the US absolutely failed to sanction because Europeans, for obvious reasons, said “ok, we said sanction Russia, not commit suicide.”
But beyond oil, Russia has built up a resilience for decades now to US influence. Remember when the sanctions hit and all these corporations immediately had to leave to be in compliance. Russia just has their own McDonald’s (and a bunch of other examples). They have China on their border, a close ally of Russia and strong trade partner. Whatever resources or commodities the US sought to remove from the Russian economy they either had domestically produced replacements ready to go or China can fill the need if not.
Sanctions just simply do not work. If the US actually desired an end to the war in Ukraine it could’ve ended it two years and let Ukraine negotiate the eastern provinces to become independent as Putin has said since the start. Ukraine surely would’ve already done this had it not been for the US CIA and NATO pushing them with false promises of joining NATO (and a healthy far right wing in Ukraine with a gun to Zelenskyy’s head basically so he can’t ever give up or he’s gone- also supported snd strengthened by CIA).
Even in your own reply here you are saying the war is propping Russia up. I assume you think that is sustainable until the war is over and then Russia’s economy will collapse. Maybe. But that also indirectly concedes that sanctions are not working against Russia if it’s still able to wage effective war and maintain a stable domestic situations. The sanctions aren’t supposed to be “oh damn, well after the war is over, THEN the Russians will suffer and they’ll really regret that war!” They’re supposed to put pressure and force a faster end to conflict right now… which is objectively just not happening. Russia seems to have basically indefinite capacity to continue this war even with all the US’s harsh sanctions. The only thing further the US could even try (they already blew up that pipeline, remember that?) is really really forcing Europe to not buy oil sold via proxy which came from Russia. Is that gonna happen? Of course not because Germans aren’t going to destroy their own economy and their own standard of living all for the benefit of the US getting what it wants. And it’s debatable if cutting off all sales entirely would even work because again China can just keep buying all the excess. Unless China decides to start sanctioning Russia and stop purchasing their oil (never happening) Russia will be fine.