A very lame attempt to get back at the world in general. Speaking of sanctions, during the cold war (long before the collapse of the soviet union, several countries got their heads together and intentionally forced the soviet union to spend vast amounts of revenue on defense that was never really needed. This forced our neighbors into bankruptcy.
Now with oil prices and gasoline way down, the soviet union has lost nearly 200 billion (rubles, dollars?) in sanctions in their oil industry. Now mark my word, once they are once again at the bottom of the pit, you watch gas prices go way up again. And you thought dirt only came from Washington, D.C.