To be specific, I have very vivid memory of the week ruble nearly collapsed and the gold amassing you talk about was the attempt at rescuing the sinking ship from back then.

Thing is: both the event back then and the current war globohomo has declared on Putin in all but name are eventually triggered by actions Putin signed off on. This sort of ruins the entire picture of Fabian grudge, when they can only really act when Putin himself loses his mind.