I think that we must face the fact that, regardless of intentionality, the empire placed Russia in such a position that it had to build economic resistance capablities up during the Minsk period. The sanctions and economic maneuvering from the West left no other option. The Russian state didnt use it aa competently as it should’ve (it’s still a bourgeois state) but its been forced into an international-national-liberation war and was forced to act that way.