All right, Alexander, let's talk about the Russian economy.

We touched on this briefly in a video we recorded a couple of days ago, but I think we can get into some more depth as to what's going on in Russia and with the Russian economy.

Just to recap what we talked about in the last video where we discussed the

Russian economy, there is the belief in, definitely in Ukraine, definitely in many media outlets

in the collective West, that just give it another year in Russia and the economy will collapse the sanctions, need time to work.

And there are many analysts out there, many reports that have come out in the past couple of weeks,

which claim that the Russian economy is overheating and that the Russian economy in the next year in 2025 will begin to unravel.

Let's discuss. What are your thoughts on those statements?

Right. The first thing to say is that, of course, there is always going to be some people,

the people who basically supported the sanctions in the first place, some of them who invented the sanctions in the first place,

who will look at any problem in the Russian economy, attribute them to sanctions, say that

sanctions are working and therefore must be continued and must be in fact intensified. And all we have to do they've been saying this

for years mind not you know going all the way back to 2014 all we have to do is to tighten up the

sanctions a little bit more and the whole thing will finally collapse like a house of cards

and that that is really the whole story.

Now, it must be said that for the first time, there are also other voices starting to appear

in the West that are starting to push back on this, including there's a Bing article

in the French media,

I think it was Le Monde, which said, look, this isn't at all true on the country.

The country's adjusting well to sanctions.

It is, in fact, booming.

And that is the actual correct truth.

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