How has Russia been able to survive and thrive after 3+ years of massive western sanctions?

>>509861455 (OP)
Easy.

>>509861455 (OP)
China

>>509861455 (OP)
It's a big fucking country with a lot of resources

>>509861455 (OP)
Putin has literally prepared for this for the last 20 years

>>509861455 (OP)
cause everyone still wants to trade
are you aware that Europe kept on buying russian resources effectively paying for the war

>>509861455 (OP)
Because buisnesses, banks and {investors} aren't morally beholden to obey sanctions and will take a profit wherever they can with whatever flag.

>>509861455 (OP)
1. it's an authoritarian shithole.
2. The Chinese are still buying their oil even when everybody else isn't.
3. Europe was buying their natural gas for a while until somebody blew up the nord stream pipeline.
4. Authoritarian shitholes stick together, China's got a massive land border with Russia and trades goods under the table. Even if it pretends like it's not supporting Russia against Ukraine, everyone knows the Chinese are shitty little liars.
5. they have nooks. Even if they were a busted ass dilapidated shell of a country which they are, nobodys gonna fight them because nooks are nooks.

>>509861455 (OP)
Because the sanctions were imposed on regular people for revenge and not on Russia. Pigdogs are the worst animals in the worst.

>>509861455 (OP)
They have a real economy, based on producing shit, not jews pushing paper around and "services" I'm pretty sure a single jewish lawyer in New York or a dog yoga saloon in Los Angeles produces more GDP on paper than an entire shift of miners in some transuralic Shitholsk, but one is useful for a war effort and the others aren't.

Also, they have genuinely useful allies. North Korea has sent over TEN million artillery shells by now. The EU promised one million shells per years in 2022 and didn't even reach one(!) million so far, as of 2025. It mans half of a dinky ass peninsula is a better ally to have in a hot war than the entirety of the EU put together.

China is also never going to let them fall and get isolated. This is so fucking obvious that any decisionmaker planning a color revolution in ukraine in the 2010s should have seen this one coming a mile away.

>>509862617
>based on producing shit
Russia doesn't produce anything though. Their economy is based on digging shit out of the ground like African shitholes.

>>509862745

Russia is like a big gas station - it has resources to sell to fuel the war machine and enough idiots to fight for another 100 years.

What else are they going to do?

The people don't just disappear.

>>509862008
This. This is the answer.

>>509862617
>not jews pushing paper around and "services"
I double this. Europoors really assume they're useful and producing something while in reality they put one paper over another all day long.

>>509862745
They retained all the heavy industry and war industry from the cold war, while the west didn't. Britain is in the process of shutting down the last steel mill in the country.

>Their economy is based on digging shit out of the ground

Why trannies think this is a bad thing? It just means they have products in demand. Oil, gas, coal, grain, corn, steel, cement, fertilizer, ores. These are products that are ALWAYS in demand as they are ALWAYS required to run a functional society. Not entirely coincidentally, these are the resources that come in real fucking handy for a war.

>>509863472
The EU still has some industry left. I described the US on purpose, where GDP is almost entirely empty, jews trading derivatives of derivatives with jews, nothing gets produced, everything is imported.