The US, EU, and their allies have been announcing measures designed to isolate and weaken the Russian economy. Since 2014, Vladimir Putin has been taking pre-emptive steps to protect the economy from future sanctions. But Brian O'Toole, former US Treasury Official and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, says that in the face of Western sanctions, "Fortress Russia is gone."


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