The Illogic of the Russian Propaganda on Sanctions
In a zero-sum conflict, if your opponent made a mistake by simple incompetence, then you made one earlier if you missed the chance to force that mistake.
Lying Russkies are arguing that the sanctions are helping Russia. Question: If that is so, why didn't you impose your own sanctions on the West, or at least massive tariffs, on the day the war started? At the very least, you thought as we did at the beginning of the war. What changed your mind? That you are running out of precision munitions and cruise missiles or that your offensive has come to a halt?
Basically, if we made a mistake in imposing the sanctions, well, Russia then made a mistake but not imposing them (assuming their premise about it doing more harm to us is true.)
What is true is that your average Russian consumer is not yet feeling the effect of the sanctions; I do believe that. But if this larger narrative about it being "stupid Western backfire" were true, the Russians would be imposing their own sanctions on us. They aren't. While trade is not a zero sum game, war is---and trade during war is as well.
The thing that makes me hate the Russkies the most is how they speak to me as if I am dumb. I am not dumb, and the more you insist on treating me as such, the more devoted to your defeat and humiliation I become. Apart from expecting these people to adhere to well established norms of international law, I never mistreated them or spoke disparagingly of them. Every time their trolls insult me, it just makes me more devoted to their defeat (this is true of China as well).