Man I dont know about the missiles. But yeah I feel we read this article every week. "Sanctions are about to grind russian economy to a halt", "Russias oil industry about to implode", "Russian war industry about to hit its limit".

It just never really seems to do so.

It was predicted for more than 2 years, and it's happening now.
The Russian economy is collapsing, The Russian wealth fund is empty, and Russia has been selling gold reserves to prop up the economy, oil exports are dwindling, and they have to import refined oil products now at inflated prices.
The Russian infrastructure is collapsing too, and farmers can't get the harvest done, because fuel is either not available or too expensive so it will cost more to harvest than to let the crops rot in the field.

The fact that you are not seeing it, is not because it isn't happening.
I have no idea why so many upvote you not knowing what's going on.

It happens slowly, then all at once

Part of the reason this happens is these changes take a lot longer than anyone would really like.

But, there are widespread fuel shortages in Russia, most of the country is facing some type of rationing, and that's something that hasn't happened before.

they’re unleashing more and more ballistic missiles on Kyiv every week

They don't though. They're still doing it, but they're not doing it more, and that's not for the lack of trying.

The number of missiles and drones launched by Russia has been fairly steady since last year, sure there are some peaks here and there, but on average the numbers don't go up, rather they've been going down slightly for the past few months. Ukraine's countermeasures have become much more effective though with less than 10% of drones making it through.

Russian economy getting destroyed and Russia killing civillians are 2 different things.

They can keep up the murder for long, but they can say goodbye to their war goals.

We've been hearing the same idiots saying "sanctions didn't work immediately therefore they don't work" since 2022. Those of us with higher than room temperature IQs realised that Russia planned for the war and sanctions to the tune of a $600 billion savings fund.

I still find it hilarious that Russia left about half of this in hostile countries that confiscated it immediately. Imagine Russia had that extra cash? They probably would have had a chance of winning this war without that blunder.

Every bit of support they give costs Russia something. Prestige, economic rights, even eventually land. In the end, they're going to pay.

Yes, the sick man of europe and asia won't be going anywhere any time soon. Nobody wants to take over Russia, and Russia doesn't have seccessationist movements. The only thing that will stop the war is Putin at this stage. Preferably in a casket.

Well the Russian economy is already collapsing, so where you get that idea from is kind of weird.