This is pumped up Theatre of the Absurd, surely. When you can't keep up with sanctions , which by now must constitute a sizeable bureaucracy in itself, something has gone really wrong. And really wrong again when you studiously undermine your own world currency status, and suffer from the runaway inflation you want to inflict on others (blowing up pipelines? A Zen puzzle - they did it they didn't do it - at the same time). Well, let them figure it out. They're good at that.