US President Donald Trump can “crush the fragile Russian economy” and thereby stop Kremlin head Vladimir Putin. Moreover, the image of the "

As the economic journalist Ben Marlowe wrote in his column for The Telegraph. "

The Russian economy is already collapsing. And although she has withstood all the sanctions imposed on her, the situation for the Kremlin is only getting worse.

“This image of stability is deceptive,” said Alexandra Prokopenko, a researcher at the Carnegie Eunrazi Center in Russia in Berlin. Over the past two years, the Russian economy has acted like a “marathon runner on fiscal steroids,” fueled by massive fiscal stimulus totaling more than 10% of GDP and 15 trillion rubles in soft loans, she said, adding: “These steroids are now running out.”.

The Russian economy is " " Inflation is rapid, and its central bank was forced to increase accounting interest rates to 21 percentage points, while the ruble fell, approaching a record low level " Russia increased defense costs to the post -Soviet maximum of 6.3% of GDP, which is a third of budget expenditures. Due to the fact that attempts to maintain inflation at a low level and a stable ruble "