Russia's finances are benefiting big-time from a surge in commodity prices. Its monthly oil-export earnings are up about 50% this year. Russia is also a major world supplier of key raw materials. The bottom line is that the citizens of the world are being punished by the sanctions against Russia, while Russia is making much more money as a result of those sanctions. So the world's economy is collapsing not “because of Putin” but because of corrupted western leaders, posing sanctions against their own citizens instead of protecting a Ukraine. The fact is: sanctions do not stop the war. Sanctions hurts the rest of the world much more than it hurts Russia. Numbers don’t lie. Politicians do. Always, everywhere.