He who don't know, don't talk. People need to separate politics and sentiments from reality. Anyone that have been following politics since the beginning of the war knows what is going on, Russia has been sanctioned severely which resulted into the default you are referring to, and they are unable to service their debt, but they are doing better than it is being reported in the media because the media wants you to think along their own talking point. Russia is doing better than some of these European countries if you do your home work well, but it wasn't publicized.
The war is still ongoing, and I see that the Russians are still living very well, but if you read the news from the Western press, it is quite the opposite. Just like a few months ago, the US and EU media reported that the Russian military had exhausted its arsenal and could not prolong the war any longer. But so far, the US, Nato, and Ukraine have been unable to stop Russia, let alone make them fail badly.
To be fair, the Russian economy is not immune to the impact of those heavy sanctions. But the EU's economy is not much better, if not worse, than Russia's. If the ruble is a scam, then all currencies in this world are government sponsored scam schemes.
I read such answers and I have a strange feeling that I am back in the USSR in the 80's, where from all sockets there was "the West is on the verge of collapse, the Soviet economy is prospering, the West envies us", etc. propaganda nonsense, the purpose of which is self-indulgence and an attempt to distract from the gray reality and hopelessness in the USSR. Or I begin to believe in the existence of multiverse, where there is the same planet, the same people, but where Russia is doing well and the EU is "rotting"
Regarding the statement "several months ago, the US and EU media reported that the Russian military had exhausted its arsenal and could no longer continue the war" - could you provide a resource where you read this ?
There are still resources, no one has denied it, but their number has greatly decreased, and you have been observing for the last 9 months:
- "second army of the world" for 10 months takes 1 city of 40 sq km. Destroying there a huge amount of HIS equipment and HIS manpower.
- The Minister of Defense and other messengers from the Kremlin are begging all their rogue friends (Iran, North Korea,...) for shells, armaments....
- Any offensive actions of the terrorist army actually stand, after the shameful rout in the north and south of Ukraine...
Or did you think - since the stockpiles decreased - they all realized their hands and ended the war ? No, Putin will be to the last Russian to try to realize his morbid fantasy of becoming tsar of "Muscovy and annex new lands"....