...by issuing sanctions on Russia’s oil industry so hard that it nearly backfired and caused an energy crisis. These measures have utterly crippled the Kremlin’s revenue stream, leaving the Russian war machine running on the government equivalent of savings and causing the Russian economy to nearly crash.

Utter nonsense. Western sanctions have not "nearly backfired." They've backfired big time, crippling EU and UK.

Russia's economy is doing about as well today as it did before the war started. It has suffered some setbacks but nothing dire. Western sanctions have completely failed to meet their objectives.