We Don’t Leave Our Own Behind (or not)
“The orcs took the helmet from the wounded tribesman and... simply let him die“
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1658184460704120832
“Russia’s defence spending jumped 282% y/y to $26 bln in Jan-Feb -budget data”
“Russia’s 2023 spending plan envisages 4.98 trillion roubles of expenditure on defence. The data shows the country spent just over 40% of its planned annual allocation for the defence sector in Jan-Feb.”
“Data published last week showed that Russia’s budget deficit stood at 3.4 trillion roubles for January to April, compared with a 1.2-trillion-rouble surplus in 2022, as Moscow has spent heavily and energy revenues have dropped.
Last year, Russia spent 5.51 trillion roubles, or 17.1% of its total expenditure on defence, up from 3.57 trillion roubles, or 14.4%, in 2021.
In January-February 2023, national defence spending was 36.2% of the total budget expenditure, nearly double the amount spent on social policy and almost four times more than spending on the “national economy”.“