“Big Business” n°133: Sanctions, stop or still?. Russia unleashed the most massive salvo of sanctions ever launched against a country.
There are now more than 18,000 measures targeting Russian individuals or entities. A non-military counter-offensive, mainly led by the West, which continues to escalate. The Russian economy, reoriented towards a war economy, did not collapse. The embargo on energy exports (gas and oil) is circumvented by means of a ghost fleet of tankers that Russia has set up.