I think if you're going to start a war in this era, you'll have to be able to look at least 5 years into the future. Putin isn't stupid. He and his cronies knew this would happen. If they were afraid of the effects of these sanctions, they would have backed down at the get-go and tried a different approach. But they didn't, so they must have prepared for the worst. I wouldn't be surprised if releasing a digital coin is part of their plan, but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. With oil prices skyrocketing, Russia is recovering faster than they are losing, which is one of the reasons we see ruble bouncing back. Once this war is over, the true losers of this war are the countries and private multinational companies that participated in the sanction, because they lost a lot but didn't gain anything from it. As for Russia, they might not be able to take over Ukraine completely, but they will have managed to topple down its government and cripple any plan of the US to put up nukes in their backyard. Russia is not using gold to evade the impact of the sanctions so there are more ways for Russia to survive than there are to murder its economy. There are still holding a lot of aces to resort to having a DC. With Binance hopping on the sanction bandwagon, anything digital isn't appealing for those people.