“Russia is in for a catastrophic economic crash if the anecdotes in this story are typical.”
We could pretty much collapse Russia’s economy by ourselves if we resurrected our domestic energy industry and became the energy exporter we used to be.
It does seem the loophole riddled sanctions are intentionally loose to prevent the Russian economy collapsing entirely. Putin will “accomplish” that anyway, though.
The US energy sector is still there.
Go to Midland Texas any day and you will see in real life how busy they are.
Those deep oil wells have been producing numbers that are extremely large.
Xi-O’Biden has deliberately done everything in his power to destroy our US economy.
What he had done is literally Treason. IT MUST END NOW.