So true, Russia is definitely keeping people impoverished, no sanctions or external factors here
I thought the sanctions weren’t doing anything and Russia’s economy is booming
While sanctions have either failed to achieve the intended effect or in some cases have had the opposite effect on the industrial economy of Russia, its warfighting capacity, its ruling class, and its GDP; they have had negative effects on consumer prices in Russia just as they have in the US and EU.
Sanctions, as always, are a form of economic warfare against the citizenry of both the sanctioned nation and your own. The intention is to create significant instability and resentment among the working class with the goal of fomenting political unrest in the target nation.
Learning a bit of history will help you not make a clown of yourself in public in the future. Go read up on what the state of things was like in Russia in the 90s after the west “helped” introduce all the liberal reforms and privatization. And then go look at how the standard of living has been improving steadily since Putin took over.
