So the Russian military is funded in exactly the same way it is in the UK and every other country, through tax payers. Unless some western countries raise the revenue by sending out vast numbers of the public, with rattling tins. I don't see the point you are attempting to make. It might have escaped your attention but the western economies ravaged by 2 years of Covid are not in a very healthy position themselves. Claiming that the Russian economy is tanking just not true. Its GDP has increased albeit by a small amount in the period 2020-2021 and is forecast to reach 1943.78 billion dollars by 2026 an increase in growth of 465 billion dollars. Pretty unremarkable. An economy in decline, perhaps, but certainly not tanking by any stretch of the imagination. In additional Russias national debt is peanuts compared to the US debt which currently stands at 23. 3 trillion dollars, that's over $90,000 for every man, women and child living in the USA.
I've never seen sanctions shoot a plane out the sky or stop a bullet or a missile. Just wait until the Russians hit Europes national gas supplies. People in the UK are already facing £3000 a year energy prices and rapidly increasing food prices. I wonder how enthusiastic their support for Ukraine will last when they cant afford to heat their homes or start going hungry. Nice to see you couldn't care less about the effect of sanctions and the suffering it might impose on the Russian people. Sanctions imposed by the West not Putin.
I challenged you to give examples of give some examples of the impartially of the western media and instead of doing that you tap dance around the issue and list the myriad of relatively insignificant western media outlets with little or no influence on mass public opinion. The overwhelming majority of the population get their information from the BBC, ITV, Sky, Fox News, CNN news and and newspapers owned by huge multinational corporations. This is what shapes public opinion. Self censorship may be much smarter than Putins state control but every bit as deceptive and it is naivety in the extreme to think otherwise.
So Putin is a gangster, no shit Sherlock! No need for the bold script. Unless it was for your benefit. Didn't stop the west doing business with him for all these years did it. Putin has so much in common with the corrupt motley crew we have here mis-managing our interests and all the while enabling Putin and his cronies, looking the other way while they launder Russian money plundered from the pockets of ordinary Russian people.
You may choose to take sides in this conflict that is your business I chose to withhold my support for the corrupt protagonists. They started this war not the Russian or Ukrainian people.
It's the first step in forcing the world buy oil in yuan, making us all use WeChat Pay.