>>11395992Bullshit, your whole post is just wrong
>under Embargo for 70years No they are not. UdSSR was self inflicted and after 1990 they had fairly free trade with the west
Only after 2014 Krim Annexion, EU sanctioned them (understandably) and in 2017/18 the US
>hardly any western investment Wrong got a lot of foreign investments in the recent years, nearly solely from the west
>wealth stolen from oligarchsYou named it, Russian! Oligarchs stole the wealth not western ones
Putin got elected on the promise to purged some of those Oligarchs
>arctic routes will change everything No, they won’t not until Russia gets less corrupt and the money and influence earned from these doesn’t end up in the hands of a few Mafias / Oligarchs
