This is from an article from Red State. Red State has been a great Alt news Conservative site all through the Trump and Covid Experience but now they are very Pro Ukraine…Putin is a Monster and Zelensky is a hero…etc. Many of our “useful” Conservative Alt sites are the same

Pisses me off

This article is no different in it’s slant so i am not posting the link BUT

This part is INTERESTING

I figured the best place to track the sanctions/pain quotient would be with the price of a gallon of gasoline. In the United States, the price of gasoline resulting from this crisis now averages between $4.50 and $ 6 per gallon, depending on where you are in the country. In the European Union, the price of a gallon of gasoline hovers around $8.00 per gallon.

To find the comparable number in Russia, I turned to my favorite source of unbiased raw news, YouTube. And I found this wonderful, “simple Russian man” named Dan Sheekoz who posted a video on March 4, 2022.

Sheekoz visited gasoline stations in his town, jotting down gas prices. The video, which has gone viral, shows that the price per gallon of 95 octane fuel for an ordinary Russian citizen is $2.00 per gallon.

From a sanctions/pain quotient, we now have a people-to-people baseline to track whether or not our governments are succeeding or failing at using sanctions as a tool of statecraft. Americans suffer about twice the economic pain as Russians currently. Europeans are experiencing four times the pain at the pump.

Quite honestly, this piece of data does not bode well for U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan to squeeze Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia is a massive oil and gas producer, and can maintain prices at these levels for far longer than the U.S. can tolerate damage to our economy at the pump. We may wind up assessing we are the disadvantaged ones economically, a month from now — the Europeans, even more so.