It's Begun! Sanctions Corrupted the Core of the Russian Economy - The Russian Dude

What happens when a regime lies long enough that even its own economy stops obeying the script? This video breaks down how Western sanctions are finally delivering devastating, irreversible damage to the Russian economy — despite years of Vladimir Putin insisting that sanctions “don’t work.” From the myth of Russian self-sufficiency to the post-2022 shock that never ended, this analysis explains why sanctions are not a temporary inconvenience but a structural poison slowly hollowing Russia out from the inside.

You’ll see how the 2014 Crimea sanctions already exposed Russia’s dependence on global supply chains, killing competition, empowering oligarch monopolies, driving prices up, and lowering quality for ordinary Russians. The 2022 invasion of Ukraine escalated everything: Russia became the most sanctioned country on Earth, inflation became permanent, real purchasing power collapsed, and the economy split into a privileged war sector and an impoverished civilian one. This is how a war economy traps an entire society, locking it onto military tracks that are almost impossible to reverse.

The video also dives deep into Russia’s oil problem — the backbone of the state budget. With Europe gone, Russia now depends on China and India, selling oil at massive discounts that expose Moscow’s weakness and drain long-term revenues. These “new partnerships” are not strategic wins but economic dependency, forcing the Kremlin to squeeze its own population harder through hidden taxes, fees, and collapsing social services just to keep the war alive.

Most importantly, this breakdown explains why the damage is no longer reversible without collapse. Sanctions don’t just hurt today’s numbers — they rot the future. Innovation dies, skills decay, monopolies harden, loyalty replaces efficiency, and trust disappears. Putin keeps lying because admitting the truth would be politically fatal. But denial doesn’t save economies. It only delays the crash. This is not Russian resilience — it’s economic cardiac arrest in slow motion, and no amount of propaganda can bring it back.