I keep seeing this being said and I'm not sure it's actually true.
Putin's war was funded well in advance, it had to be. He can't just make new tanks or aircraft or even missiles it appears. Even if his tank factories could get the parts the Russian output of tanks from its factories was about 4 tanks a week pre-war. It take's months to build aircraft and years to build warships
He pays the soldiers in roubles and he can just print as many of them as he likes, he also doesn't have to pay them if they're dead, they aren't even paying dead soldiers families what they promised because it's not a war but a "special operation"
I'm not saying that we shouldn't stop buying his gas / oil, we obviously should, it's just the notion that it's funding his war I'm struggling with, I don't think turning off the fuel would make a blind bit of difference to what he's doing. He's already lost at least $10 Billion in tanks / APC / Aircraft destroyed or capture but they had a warchest of something like $350 billion. He'll run out of weaponry and people willing to fight before he runs out of money
What the money is doing is propping up the economy and that's why it should be stopped but people seem to think cutting the fuel link will directly affect the outcome of the war, it really will not have that direct effect. It will collapse the economy further but the war will still most likely continue