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To: smokingfrog
The effects of economic policy like sanctions take a few years to happen. The sanctions are to hurt and impede the Russian economy, to raise revenue and resources needed for the war over time, not overnight. The news and their experts like to make economics sound immediate and dire because sensationalism sells.

The battlefield and economic sides of the conflict both suffer from "the fog of war". The reported Russian economic numbers are made up. While the news reports them, no one making decisions believes them. The economic side of the conflict is to make the war so costly for the Russian economy and weapons production they can't keep up or afford it.

47 posted on 01/07/2024 11:02:15 AM PST by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: Widget Jr; smokingfrog; ought-six; USA-FRANCE; BabaOreally; Timber Rattler; BeauBo; MalPearce

Much has been made over the fact that Russia has increased it’s GDP figures. However, I suspect a lot of that increase is based on manufacture of weapons which are going to be destroyed again quite soon. Unless they are selling these weapons for actual income, just making them and destroying them is not really an increase of any value. The Western weapons have actually been looking quite good, so I don’t think Russia will have a thriving arms market.

Thus Russians have more weapons, but not more good food, clothing, housing, toilets, washing machines, and all the other things that make their people feel better when they have enough of them. In the US we have had an egg and chicken crisis because of major bird flu outbreaks and slaughter of infected chickens, which in our case is improving. Russians also seem to be affected by a similar problem. Now of course, more of their loved ones are being killed, so deprivations are even more to be angry about and eventually they may even realize that Putin is the cause.


63 posted on 01/07/2024 3:38:18 PM PST by gleeaikin ( Question authority)
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