It's debatable. Iran and NK weren't as developed as Russia was. Sure, there are many alternatives to things such as payment providers, but regular Russians are basically cut off from many services they used to use until recently ( Netflix, YouTube) and can no longer but stuff they could before ( iPhones, computers, etc.). This will hurt drastically more the average Russian than the average North Korean who has never had the privilege to use any of those things ( if they've even heard of them). The damage to the Russian economy from sanctions is also enormous and it will take years to recover.
> It's debatable. Iran and NK weren't as developed as Russia was.
Russia GDP is like Spain, it's not that developed either. It's mostly gaz and wheat, this can be diverted to China, though at a discount of course. Still enough to survive.
Developed as developed, not GDP. Monaco's GDP is miniscule compared to Morocco ( 7 vs 119 billion USD), but you can safely say Monaco is more developed.
