Well first off, if people in Russia were just surviving, you would likely see far more of an uproar than you see right now (which you hardly see any uproar outside of the western influenced intelligentsia and those in the humanities and arts world). Also, you act as though this is a static situation. Whatever negative impacts that sanctions have right now, you act as though Russia doesn't have the time and human manpower to overcome them. You see, unlike over hear in Amerikka where we are woke, politically correct and have 64 genders and pronouns, they actually have a real economy and still teach the hard sciences. Plus, the average Russian is not that far removed from the days of the Soviet days and are fully aware of struggle and pain, unlike most westerners... but especially us here in the United States. So they have a far higher tolerance for pain than we do. In addition, they are more similar to the Silent generation/Depression Era Americans that grew up having to raise their food and improvise on getting items to work and function in order to make do. In contrast, I have engineers here in the US that I have worked with that confessed to me that they can't change out a light fixture or add an outlet in their own home.
