Russia Ukraine war, page-200202

a further misconception re- the russian economy is that they are self sustaining

it might be true for rusisia if they were happy to live in the stone age as fully 80% of imports in 2022 (and I'm sure much higher now ) were manufactured goods .
russia USED to be in soviet times a great manufacturing country but putin has let that slip badly and modernisation has passed russia by

putin is only interesteed in weapons and military exploits to bring glory to himself and russia