economics editor set out for me how frightening it is going to be. the russian frightening it is going to be. iie: russian economy is being heavily hit but it isn'tjust a by—product of this military conflict, it is almost like a theatre of the conflict it is the conscious aim of the western powers knowing the restrictions on the use of military force for obvious reasons for right now. trying to think of ways to hit the russian economy as a sort of conflict if you like. the attack on the central bank of pressure, the financial sanctions, vladimir putin has been using the gas and oil revenues to build up a buffer, accretion as one of the russian central bank advisers which if isolated to ashley, the rouble would