It's Begun! Sanctions Corrupted the Core of the Russian Economy - The Russian Dude

[TexasTowelie]

What happens when a regime lies long enough that even its own economy stops obeying the script? This video breaks down how Western sanctions are finally delivering devastating, irreversible damage to the Russian economy — despite years of Vladimir Putin insisting that sanctions “don’t work.” From the myth of Russian self-sufficiency to the post-2022 shock that never ended, this analysis explains why sanctions are not a temporary inconvenience but a structural poison slowly hollowing Russia out from the inside.

You’ll see how the 2014 Crimea sanctions already exposed Russia’s dependence on global supply chains, killing competition, empowering oligarch monopolies, driving prices up, and lowering quality for ordinary Russians. The 2022 invasion of Ukraine escalated everything: Russia became the most sanctioned country on Earth, inflation became permanent, real purchasing power collapsed, and the economy split into a privileged war sector and an impoverished civilian one. This is how a war economy traps an entire society, locking it onto military tracks that are almost impossible to reverse.

The video also dives deep into Russia’s oil problem — the backbone of the state budget. With Europe gone, Russia now depends on China and India, selling oil at massive discounts that expose Moscow’s weakness and drain long-term revenues. These “new partnerships” are not strategic wins but economic dependency, forcing the Kremlin to squeeze its own population harder through hidden taxes, fees, and collapsing social services just to keep the war alive.

Most importantly, this breakdown explains why the damage is no longer reversible without collapse. Sanctions don’t just hurt today’s numbers — they rot the future. Innovation dies, skills decay, monopolies harden, loyalty replaces efficiency, and trust disappears. Putin keeps lying because admitting the truth would be politically fatal. But denial doesn’t save economies. It only delays the crash. This is not Russian resilience — it’s economic cardiac arrest in slow motion, and no amount of propaganda can bring it back.

[orangecrush]

1. Good

Paybacks are a bitch, Putin.

And revenge is a motherfucker.

[multigraincracker]

2. Thanks for your post.

You earn recs with your great descriptions. Not always somewhere I can listen to a video.

[FiveFifteen]

3. Yes!

Agreed on the recaps.

[multigraincracker]

4. Great lesson on monopolies.

They destroy competition and raise prices. Not overnight, but over time. On a smaller scale this is happening here, slowly but surely. Higher prices and wages are a one way street that are hard to reverse.
A great lesson for the Democratic Party. It’s time to focus on regulations or lack of them that are driving up prices and give more money and power to the rich as monopolies drive out conpetition.
It’s time to Bust the Trust before it is too late.
Look at big oil. The own production from the oil fields to the gas stations. Now it is happening to agriculture. Small farmers are going out of business and big ag is controlling the markets more and more.
Wake up.