What prevented Russia from being as successful of a country before the sanctions? Competition from other countries. Then the sanctions came and gave Russia lots of things she needed to become way more successful.
Even you know that if Russia wasn't a successful country, Ukraine, the US and Nato would have conquered her long ago. Since she is successful - and now more because of the sanctions - you are doing all you can to take her success away from her, even though you might not get any of it. You are a thief, through slander.
Russia has the chance to become rich. All she has to do is base her money system on things of real value rather than lies like the US money system. Russia (and some other countries) is doing this through BRICS.
There is no need to repeat Putin's legend that the West wanted to conquer Russia; if this were true, it would have been easy to do at the time of the collapse of the USSR. On the contrary, the West helped the Russians, hoping that democracy had finally won on the territory of the empire. But the West did not understand that the Russian people and democracy are incompatible things. I wrote about this in the article "People's fate or each cricket has its own hearth", explaining it with the mentality of the Russian people. I'm posting this article now.
The idea that Conquering Russia might have been easy at the time of the Soviet collapse is false. Russia didn't do collapse. They simply recognized that the way to better advancement for themselves and their satellite states was freedom. Freedom means free trade.
In other words, the Soviet collapse was the beginning of Russia's war that is conquering the the US and Nato right now. It was the beginning of free trade between Russia and the world. The form of free trade was advancing better than the free trade that the US and Nato were doing. That's part of the reason the US and Nato are fighting via Ukraine. Sneaky rather than hones war... just the way the US and her banks always do.
How do we know all this?
1. The US is making threats and war against Russia. The threats and war are less hidden each day as more info about the depth of the US armament to Ukraine is revealed.
2. The US is doing this because their banking industry is based on contracts and treaties full of lies. Russia's is based on using real money in trade... except where Russia successfully copied US money when trading with anybody who used US money.
3. Russia has bypassed the sanctions and grown stronger in trade with countries that want to trade with her... BRICS.
4. People (simple citizens) of the US and Nato are feeling the pinch of US banking faulty operations against Russia (creating more fake money through loans to the US government for Ukraine), while at the same time Russia's general strength from its people is stronger.
You write fiction novels. You write based on old Russia. You seem to have a biased attitude against Russia. But if you don't, you write the way a paid propagandist writes.
It seems that you don't understand that Democracy is almost the same as Dictatorship. People who think that democracy is better have been tricked into believing so. US democracy is showing us this right now. Its being shown in the fact that the US government is lying to its people. It is coming out into the open with Tucker and many other things and reporters.
Wake up and see that, even if Russia doesn't become strong and win, the rest of the world will go right down with her if she falls.
Freedom and trade are different concepts. Of course, in conditions of freedom, trade leads to the development of civilization. But there was also trade between democracies and countries with a totalitarian regime, for example, with the USSR or with Putin's Russia, before the sanctions, which are caused by Russian aggression.
As I see it, you are the paid propagandist here. All your comments here are copying Putin's lies. The West, though late, but understood. that the Empire of Lies and Evil must be stopped. Russian fascism will not pass!