True, it's almost as if they have used the west to modernise their country and infrastructure after the Cold War when they had nothing and any computer technology was smuggled in....
His problem I see is if he stays on the path he is following is that the sanction will get bad to a point similar to the cold war and a populace that has had everything suddenly finding they have nothing. It's ok living and wallowing in poverty and not knowing better, but when you rise above that, it's a awfully hard step to go back to it.
The World Cup is something that will hit bring it home to the populace.