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'''Russian sanctions''' were imposed at the outset of the '''[[NATO war in Ukraine]]'''.
In the third week of February 2022, socialist leader [[Joe Biden]] said that "As a result of these unprecedented sanctions, the ruble almost is immediately reduced to rubble," and push the [[Russian]] [[economy]] from being the 11th biggest in the world to outside the top 20. The [[UK]] [[Prime Minister]] and Foreign Secretary variously said that sanctions would take "the wheels off the Russian war machine," and "hobble" its economy. The [[EU]] said that sanctions were designed to erode "sharply Russia's economic base." The sanctions, which were unprecedented in size and scope, were meant to damage the Russian economy to such an extent that [[Moscow]] would be unable to continue its intervention in the [[Donbas war]] and perhaps even lead to [[regime change]]. Many experts agreed, forecasting a catastrophic effect on the Russian economy. The Institute of Financial Studies predicted a 15% fall in GDP. A Yale study went even farther, arguing that Russia had lost foreign business presence in the country that accounted for 40% of its [[GDP]], and that there was "no path out of economic oblivion for Russia."
Instead, Russian GDP declined only 2.1% in 2022, a mild [[recession]] by emerging market standards. By 2023, the [[IMF]] expected the Russian economy to return to growth, and indeed outperform the economies of [[Germany]], [[Britain]] and [[France]]. Clearly, the sanctions failed.
The obvious reason for the failure was a fundamental misunderstanding of the size, development and importance of the Russian economy. The idea that Russia was "a gas station with [[nuke]]s," had sunk into the [[Western civilization|Western]] received wisdom. Former President [[Barack Obama]] said that "Russia doesn't make anything," while the idea that Russia's economy was "about the size of [[Italy]]'s" was commonplace, adding to the sense that Russia would be an economic pushover.
It is true that in nominal terms Russia's economy was only a little larger than Italy's before the beginning of Russia's [[Special Military Operation]]. Nominal GDP, however, simply uses current national currency exchange rates with the dollar to compare one nation with another. It thus fails to capture real purchasing power & [[inflation]]. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) measurements of GDP seek to remedy this, and Russia's GDP PPP, not really needing much foreign currency, is far better even compared to Germany than it is to Italy's.
==See also==
*[[Magnitsky Act of 2012]]
*[[Great Reset]]
==References==
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[[Category:Russia-Ukarain War]]
[[Catgeory:Globalism]]
[[Category:Biden Junta]]
[[Category:2020s]]