Something Interesting Is Happening With GOP Public Opinion - Phillips P. OBrien
I do think a lot of people are starting to realize just how serious Ukraine's strategy against Russian oil & gas infrastructure is, and how much it's paying off.
We like to joke around here about everything being two weeks out, but if we are starting to see gas shortages/fuel rationing already (and have been for a bit), and if Russia is having to import gasoline from China, and we see delivery trucks/long-haul trucks being idled, and Ukraine keeps plinking away at refineries and pumping stations and other facilities, it's going to start affecting delivery of food as well. Another 2 or 4 weeks of this stuff means fewer air defense systems operating, more shortages at a much larger scale, even more of a repair backlog (due to lack of parts and probably manpower that's been shipped off to the front).
Residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg can probably weather fuel shortages for the short term better than a lot of Russian cities, given they have mass transit systems in place, but let's see what a disruption of food supplies can do, as well as what the good ole Russian black market is going to do for fuel and food. And that's before we get into the Russian winter.