Russia's war economy isn't collapsing — it's morphing into a permanent wartime extraction state where the Kremlin will cannibalize civilian consumption, banking deposits, and private business indefinitely rather than negotiate.
The A7A5 ruble-backed stablecoin and Russia's state-directed crypto rails are the live proof-of-concept that sanctioned nations can build parallel blockchain financial infrastructure — a direct template for Iran, North Korea, and eventually any state seeking to exit the dollar system.