Fair. But economy is about the goods, services and projects, and how to connect those who need it with those who can deliver it. Russia can nationalise all they want, that doesn't in and of itself solve the above.
As Prune has repeatedly reported, the Russian state is trying to extract a lot of money from their economy. In practice, this means they're trying to skim off surplus workers and resources to send to their military industry and war. But they've reached the point where there is no current surplus.
The only way to continue extracting from the economy is to reduce the amount of needs, so that those resources can be diverted to where the state wants them (the military industry and the war). In practice, that means making people poorer so the stop buying "luxuries".
Now, most countries run some degree of market economy, since no one has yet found an economic system that even comes close to it in raw productive power. But the market is inherently unstable, yanking too hard at one leg might cause a downward spiral that hurts the productivity of the whole system.
Russia has definitely entered the "yanking the leg" phase, and while the reduced consumption theoretically frees up resources for the state, the market economy is so interconnected that the production of those resources drop as well.
If Russia wants to keep yanking the leg, they need to switch to a less interconnected economic system. One logical extreme would be command economy, the state says who and what goes where.
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