The point of all this is this is now a Ukrainian insurgency against Russia which tends to burn away quickly the military resolve of Russia as millions and millions of dollars of Russian Military equipment has already been expended. As more and more is expended this will tend to start bankrupting Russia over time as all their war army equipment is destroyed or taken away from them over time. At present 95% of the Russian Army is fighting in or around Ukraine.
So, in some ways this is a repeat of what happened to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan with the Mujahideen under Osama Bin Laden shooting shoulder fired missiles and destroying Tanks, helicopters and jet fighters from the ground until thousands of Russian Soldiers and all the military equipment they had was destroyed. This happened around 1979 to 1980 something. The end result of all this and other things like Saudi Arabia keeping the oil prices low caused the Soviet Union to go bankrupt. This also in time might bankrupt the present Russia under Putin. The Ruble has already bit the dust (at least for now).
At present (unless something changes) the ruble is worth:
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