Their GDP has probably shrunk more than ours but IDGAF about GDP if my mother is skipping meals or eating cat food to survive. NATO are fucking clowns, russia will recover because her people can take years of this level of difficulty, NATO wage slaves will likely be revolting before winter. Because of poverty and starvation, with the expectation of freezing to death. All because the rothschilds want a nuclear energy monopoloy and their parasitic cousins have been slavering at the thought of raping impoverished Russian children for 30 years. Edit: Another angle to this conflict has been increasingly obvious but it occurs to me that russia was baiting such a response and is now manipulating that response. This proxy war with ukraine where NATO is bleeding itself and the people of member nations dry has mutated into an economic conflict where russia is trying to spend as little as possible while the west is throwing the kitchen sink at the war. In recent weeks I had been framing the war as proof that russia is a paper tiger if it is just capable of holding ground, but it occurs to me now that russia's initial goal was a lightning war which it seems they bungled as a result of corrupt military officials misallocating funds and personnel, stuck in and afraid to pull out as it would be a sign of weakness at home putin realized the economic situation would resolve the conflict and then the west did the unthinkable, massive financial and material aide, amidst serious global inflation they were spending at record rates. and he realized he had the west on a hook, now that they have committed he can feed the war 1 dollar and make the west spend 30. He's now feigning weakness, a small section of the front has lost 10 miles and they've retaken an unimportant town, when working a mark at a carniville game you make them think they can win, you give them false hope so they will spend more, and in a pyric economic conflict you should do the same. while on one end he feigns weakness on the other he cuts of oil sales ahead of elections causing our fuel costs to go back up, making a fool of biden's admin and NATO, he's essentially stacking the deck and NATO is stuck playing with his cards but he's throwing hands on purpose to bait them to overcommit when they see a chance for final victory, remember it was afghanistan war spending which crippled the soviet union. he will make the west spend itself poor and cold and hungry, and while the elites point and laugh at the poors the plebs will rise up and devour them. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit but this looks like a masterclass in power and it's application.