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To: Eleutheria5

Well that Huge Cyclon blizzard that hit them a few weeks ago, breaking records for Moscow, certainly put a shut down to businss and various other means of revenue producing entities. No doubt that will affect thier economy numbers.


2 posted on 01/07/2024 12:58:08 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: caww

As Konstantin also explains, on the civil side, the costs of everything goes up as the Ruble is devalued, and imports have to go through circuitous means because of sanctions (Turkey buys a sh!tload of Nikes, and re-sells 3/4s of them to Russia under the table), production of such essentials as eggs becomes more costly, but the price of eggs can only be hiked according to law by 33% every six months. So the egg producers go out of business and now eggs have to be imported. Factories are making war kit, and workers are unavailable, either because they’re out fighting in Ukraine, or because they hauled a@@ to other countries to avoid fighting in Ukraine, or because they died in Ukraine. So while the war-time production is way up and paying good wages, the civil side of the economy is in the toilet, but between the two sides of the economy, you have an average GDP growth of 3%, which looks great, only what it really means is that the civil side is depressed, while the war-time side is hyper-stimulated...for now. Once that’s over and the war ends one way or another, the other shoe has dropped. In this context, the ridiculous plan announced to invade Uzbekistan (after or during the invasion of Kazakhstan?), makes sense, sort of. Perpetual war would keep this crazy economy afloat.


3 posted on 01/07/2024 1:21:28 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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