With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, almost all sectors & big businesses in Russia have been hit with huge Sanctions against them both from the United States, the United Kingdom and other internationally related bodies. Sanctions have hit the Russian central bank, other small russian banks, big business and companies in Russia from airlines to manufacturing have been affected as well and many assets private and government owned has been frozen.
-Do you think Russia can survive, and how can they survive the harsh economic realities that they are about to experience? Are the sanctions sufficient to push Putin into a decision to stop the invasion?
They can somehow survive but the economic impacts would have significant damage to the Russian economy to the point that it might drive inflation worse.
Unfortunately, this bloody and unnecessary war has brought Russian citizens as the collateral to Putin's decision as a tyrant. The effects would be felt and its citizens would have to suffer from such decision. In order to at least mitigate the damage, the government must look for alternatives to its allies (looking at you China) in order to provide various options to encourage spending. Inflation might be exploding at their country which would also drive their citizens to leave their country.