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I'm not getting into an argument on the Internet with someone who possesses such an embarrassingly deficient knowledge of what they are discussing. Sanctions on Russia are not western companies pulling out of Russia.
Russia is still selling gas to Europe but trying to limit supplies through the premise of Nordstream 1 maintenance issues. They are doing this to try and prevent European countries stockpiling in the winter.
As a result, Russia is having to sell it's oil and gas at discounted prices to other markets. This is Russia's primary income. Unlike western countries they do not benefit from a diversified economy.
Russian and Ukrainian grain is not the bulk of Europe's grain. The effect of this is inflating the price of grain on international markets. The rich west can afford this. African countries cannot. So while Europe will pay the inflated price, Putin's actions will starve the poorest in the world.
Russia is already struggling to produce food for itself due to the fertiliser ban. This will only get worse.
When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, it oversaw a massive reduction in farmland acreage and widespread fresh water drinking shortages and resultant irrigation issues.
The crux is this: dictatorships can appear to work through censorship and propaganda, but the western liberal democratic model and accompanying free market economics are what have stood the test of time and will, end the end, be what sees off Russia.
This war of attrition will only have one winner.
You can reply to this if you want, but given it is obvious that you are trolling from an Internet Research Agency bunker I see no point in continuing. I wish you well Ivan in the upcoming Russian food riots, red terror 2.0, and general dissolution of your society. I hope your gulag isn't too cold and you survive your "tenner" as Aleksander Solzhenitsyn revealed to the world what was the standard of Russian civility.