Russia is still doing "great" despite the many "embargos" that exists, notwithstanding the initiative to detain the super yachts owned by its oligarchy! As part of the world economy, they are still affected by inflation.
It still has a loyal following of its former Caucasian and Central Asian republics (more or less
) but US policy on threatening countries is losing its sting because there are alternative currencies and alternative ways that more countries are seeing on dealing with the embargos. US threatening other countries tends to be small but influential nations that lacks a central and sufficiently large ecomomic clout so they become easy to bully e.g. Cuba, Venezuela, etc but it did not help those countries because they were equally brutal to their own citizens and thus, easy to put in their place to appease US policies.
In the same era and space, using equally abusive strategies to even divide and conquer in an equluable manner
, US policy under Richard Nixon preferred the massive land size of Communist China (vis a vis Cuba) to allow multinationals to not only invest in China but to refuse to pay the US citizen worker e fair wage and as a result this destroyed what was known as the "blue collar economy"! These places in USA (Detroit, Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc., are now wastelands.............
When fascism comes to US America, It will be wrapped in the US flag and waving a cross. An astute patriot