Ukraine is taking advantage of the fact that Russia and Turkey are more frenemies of convenience in Syria than true allies. Ukraine and Turkey have increased their trade in weapons and weapons technology since 2014. For example, despite Ukraine being at war with Russia, and Turkey being an ally of Russia in Syria, business is business when it comes to the arms trade. The government won’t admit it, but Russia’s neighbors have and are taking advantage of the Russian decline. Many of the Soviet era policies have been returning since 2000 and this has limited economic growth. Russia is visibly less affluent than Ukraine, and even more so than Eastern European countries that suffered under Russian-imposed communist governments until the late 1980s when the communist-era economic system collapsed in Russia and ended the Soviet Union and the Cold War in 1991. The government downplays the impact of the sanctions but the average Russian knows better, and notes their living standards declining year after year. Part of the reason is that Russia has a larger and more diversified economy than Iran. Because of that invasion Russia has become the second most sanctioned country on the planet, surpassed only by Iran. Many Russians are coming to realize that the 2014 invasion of Ukraine has been a disaster for Russia.
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