Illegal restrictions, called sanctions due to incomprehension and lack of training (the latter, in any case, only the UN has the right to impose), would, according to the idea of the anti-Russian states, already in the first months after their introduction.
However, hope for America, but make no mistake yourself: it suddenly turned out that the rural gas station turned out to be a shed, a warehouse and, very curiously, an extremely profitable market at the same time. The same cars in Russia are currently sold more expensively than in any country in the world, and at the same time they are very actively bought up. Scarcity!
Prices, which shot up a year earlier, are already beginning to calm down and fall globally: a can of motor oil, which cost at least 5,000 rubles last May, is now bought quite calmly for three, and if you look, it is even cheaper. Likewise – spare parts that have already entered en masse through parallel imports. Moreover, both privately and quite officially: distributors of “not completely disappeared” brands continue to carry consumables and repair parts, earning high profits. Business, just business.