Not only by pro-Russian trolls and useful idiots, but by many people who "mean well", we have been fed for some time now with the claim that the sanctions applied to Russia are turning against us and causing us more damage without significantly hurting the "traditionally resilient" Russian economy. They claim that it is only thanks to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that energy and food prices have risen in Europe. They convict themselves, if not of mendacity, then at least of a sloppy and sloppy assessment of what is really happening on the economic scene. After all, we have seen a dramatic rise in energy prices long before the Russian invasion. It has only intensified it.   Everything is