Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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Ryuu96 said:

Just in: Russia’s gas supplies to Europe will not resume in full until the 'collective west' lifts sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has said https://t.co/0uieyPBa44 pic.twitter.com/RBzsMMXqLw

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) September 5, 2022

Putin is getting desperate, it's an admittance that the sanctions hurt Russia badly and need them to be lifted for the country (and the military, remember the ban on chips with more than 25Mhz? Modern weapon systems rely on those) to function correctly down the road.

If Europe sees through his bluff (which I assume they do, and easily so), then Putin left the country in a devastating state: Crippling sanctions plus a stop on gas exports mean that the country runs dry of funds. I see the Russian economy taking a bigger nosedive in the next couple years than it did during the time of Boris Yeltsin, and that's quite a feat to achieve.