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It's all domestic debt. Foreigners don't want to touch stinky Russian assets even if we had a ten foot barge pole. So yes, they can just print their debt away theoretically. But they won't. Not yet anyway.
>hyperinflation
Everything points to this as a final solution but they aren't pulling the trigger. Why don't you think they are?
The domestic economy and the veneer of normalcy matters a great deal for them. It's for the same reason that they haven't fully mobilised and gloat about their entirely "volunteer" army, whilst simultaneously paying internet shills to complain about TCK and Ukrainian mobilisation. This juxtaposition of 'comfortable Russia' versus 'desperate Ukraine' is part of their demoralisation strategy.
It's worthwhile to remember that this war is optional for Russia. It's not existential. Moscow isn't under siege. There's no risk of actual territory or population loss. They won't (probably) bankrupt themselves or go full sovok deathwar. Eventually, with enough Ukrainian hits on valuable targets, the Russians will decide this war isn't worth fighting anymore and try to put out the fires in their own economy instead of making more in Ukraine.