The Total Collapse of the Russian Economy

 I watched Secretary Yellen on CNN. She explained that the entire Russian economy was based on selling energy to the West and then using the money to buy everything Russia needed from the West. The only businesses in Russia are producing and selling energy and importing and selling Western products.

So, after Putin's colossal blunder of his unprovoked aggression against the Ukraine for absolutely no reason, the Western sanctions mean Russia cannot sell any energy and cannot buy anything, so the Russian economy, formerly 11th largest in the world, totally collapsed, and, according to reliable Western sources, is now one of the poorest countries in the world. Russia has no money to produce weapons, so Putin is sending young boys and old men with Czarist weapons and no ammunition to die in the  Ukraine. Russia have lost just about their entire invasion force. Russia is now very close to total collapse and regime change, after which Russian energy resources will be given to US oiligarchs as war reparations, and Russia will be broken up into small, independent, unarmed Republics.

That is, if one sticks to reliable Western news media.

But if one foolishly reads Indian media, one is told that the Russian economy rose from 11th place in 2021 to 8th place in 2023. Based on such unreliable media, the Russian burn rate of ammunition and troops is much less than the Russian replacement rate, as opposed to NATO who are burning through a lot more materiel than they can produce.

If one could believe the Indian media, it looks like Russia will defeat all of NATO in the Ukraine, but, of course, no one would ever believe a 3rd world country over such reliable sources as CNN, BBC, and the New York Times. Just because that Indian source seems to find no need to release stories that are contradictory to former stories that must be carefully buried where they cannot be found, a task that seems to fall on CNN, BBC, and the New York Times more often than not.