This guy is apparently a manosphere-affiliated incel dating instructor turned "independent analyst" (read: Kremlin's useful idiot) who was rumored to have disappeared in his residence in Ukraine in the past two weeks.

He didn't, but he's still sucking Putin's dick in his desperate attempt for validation from (what he perceives) is the manliest specimen on earth.

What is this idiotic schizoid nonsense?

And the value of currency is tied to the overall size & strength (in particular the outlook of future growth) of a nation's economy – and Russia's was both tiny and sickly compared to the EU's even before the war. And the sanctions will rip the guts out of Russia's economy further, crushing it. If anything, the EU now dictates Russia's survival.