RE: NATO IS GETTING BORED PT228 Feb 2023 08:41
"he did not believe US UK who said Russia was about to invade; he accused them of scare mongering,"
I think you will find it was the Russians saying this claiming all the troops in Belarus and the border lands were merely on exercises. Laverov was all over the airways scolding the whole western media for suggesting otherwise at te same time as the false flag attacks were being openly revealed worldwide. It was laughable. Who'd trust anything a Russian would say now? What a legacy.
As far as trying, yet again, to concoct some twist to blame Zelensky, who invaded who? Ukraine had no obligation to cede any territory to anybody. Russia believed it had some sort of power to demand land to be handed over and others were supposed to comply without objection. Russia has now learned it has no power, it has no clout, even when waving its nukes around it is being snubbed, ignored, isolated and written off.
As as far as the Russian economy is concerned, the sanctions are limited to impact mostly individuals and has had big impacts there. The other angle is to limit the ability to use funds and components to prosecute the war and there has been impact there too, especially in the higher tech sphere. As Russia continues with is aggressive act, the noose of sanctions is pulled tighter. Sanctions have been steadily increasing since 2014. Sanctions have not been designed to destroy the Russian economy, well not yet. Inevitably the sanctions will continue to be extended into a classification of 'unrecoverable economic depression'. That is when industries will be targeted with the intent to disrupt them so much they will fail and unable to recover as long as sanctioned against. That is a way off yet because too many in the west still classify this as a problem of Putin and his inner circle, not the population in general. If the west did extend sanctions to it the wider population, you'd know about it then.