The United States of America has become the biggest aggressor and oppressor on this planet. They went from being “upholders of democracy” just after WW2 to downright Nazi-land.
They haven’t won a single war without the help of their European allies and yet have all these military bases around the world that help fund their disgusting military-industry complex and put on this pseudo narrative of being global peace-keepers when all they have done is kill innocent people, and raped women and children.
Their latest victim is going to be Nigeria and unless other countries band together to boycott and sanction the US, nothing will change.
Kind of an oversimplified view I think. Russia did and still is experiencing shortages and economic impacts from US sanctions particularly for tech related things, but a lot of the resource gaps are just being filled by other countries also under sanctions.
So it forms kind of a split economy, if you subtract all the shell companies and obfuscation techniques used to circumvent sanctions anyway 🤷♂️
OC they have some negative inpact.
But they pretty much made the 'western sanctions into a joke on the EU and US.
I would say that shows they have more than economic leverage against the US than vice versa. They have massive amounts of resources the world needs and the EU can get on their knees and thank Russia that they still are getting some (circumvented) oil and gas or we would be in even worse shit than we are now.