That’s the wrong chart. You need one with market size. The banksters in London and Frankfurt are willing to feed Ukraine and the Baltics to the Russian bear to keep their cut of the Russian kleptocracy coming in. That’s what pays for their ferraris and high priced hookers. So what if millions are put back in Russian chains, they simply don’t care.
The military size and the market size are interrelated, aren't they? The Russian Federation can act like the old Brezhnevite bear on the military arena because it knows that the bankers will block any diplomatic effort by the West.