Goatseye said:
Russia might have gotten a scapegoat with that sanction, but oligarchs know better and most of them have money and investments out of Russia. A sanction on Russia affects them sometimes more than the common Russian citizen. |
The sanctions do very little to the oligarchs who all have enough dealings with non sanctioned banks and like all people with money thy operate under enough alias's to be fine. The sanctions did little to the Russian economy, though was inconvenient for a lot of smaller businesses and people that previously would buy goods through europe. What hit the Russian economy hard was the price of Oil which ironically crashed due to OPEC trying to drive a lot of the American Shale Oil interests Bankrupt (which they have done a pretty affective job of), Russia's economy was the casualty in that war.
