Posted on 04/12/2025 9:46:10 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Russia could be forced to end the war in Ukraine because it will run out of money to pay its troops, according to experts at the DC-based Institute for the Study of War.
The country has burned through roughly half of its $106 billion liquid sovereign-wealth fund, which is used to pay troops’ salaries and new recruits bonuses, experts said.
Moscow can likely only afford another 12 to 16 months of fighting at its current pace, with about 30,000 to 45,000 Russian troops killed or injured in Ukraine each month since its 2022 invasion began, ISW’s Russia team lead George Barros told The Post.
“The system for generating fighters worked for 2.5 years but it’s starting to fail,” he said Friday. “Russia is constrained by the laws of economics, scarce resources, and there isn’t an endless manpower resource in Russia.”
The Kremlin’s cash has dwindled as troop salaries and recruiting bonuses balloon amid staggering inflation, according to Russian Finance Ministry data.
Even President Trump weighed in on Moscow’s prospects Friday, noting in a Truth Social post that “Russia has to get moving” on ending its war because “too many people (are) DYING, thousands a week.”
That reality could create an opening for the US to push Russian President Vladimir Putin harder for a peace deal. Putin has been stalling negotiations after rejecting Trump’s full cease-fire proposal — a deal Ukraine already agreed to — a month ago.
“The United States can use the enormous challenges Russia will face in 2025 as leverage to secure critical concessions in ongoing negotiations to end the war by continuing and even expanding military support to Ukraine,” ISW’s Christina Harward wrote in a recent report.
Reluctant fighters
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“Experts” strike again!
Those experts sure sr consistent. They are always saying.
Experts say!
Putin is going to run out of oil money. Biden was propping up his war machine because of the “Green New Deal” here in USA.
The experts from a bunker in Germany with a 1.2m standing army in Ukraine could not depose nor defeat Russia.
Russia is actually planning for up to 5m military, with 2.2m in June 2026. Five million was discussed for Ukraine.
NATO-CONS and Neo-cons dream big.
Zeepers are getting warm fuzzies over this news.
There is so much comedy being shared today by Zeepers :-D :-D :-D
By his war machine, you mean Zelensky’s war machine.
US aid to Russia: $0.00
US aid to Ukraine: A half trillion dollars....
Those darn experts
No doubt this explains why the Russians are desperately trying to get the opposing side to come to the negotiating table before they collapse... ROFL :-)
It’s almost as if the Biden Deep State was on the same side as Russia! :-O
“The country has burned through roughly half of its $106 billion liquid sovereign-wealth fund, which is used to pay troops’ salaries and new recruits bonuses, experts said.”
National Wealth Fund. Wait till the Russians find out there is no money for their pensions.
Biden managed to piss off the Saudis and then he went ahead and did this climate change crap.
Which is stupid because of the war going on in Ukraine to make the price of oil higher.
“according to experts at the DC-based Institute for the Study of War”
Kagan, Krystol, Petraeus, Keane etc etc. A neocon who’s who.
“Zeepers are getting warm fuzzies over this news.”
LOL! Just old news. Everyone knows Russia is going broke over this two-week war.
What makes anyone think it's true now?
ISW = Institute for the Study of War, which is run by Neocon Queen of Death Victoria Nuland's sister-in-law, that has consistently spewed propaganda and been wrong throughout the course of this war.
No objective person takes anything the ISW says seriously.
Tell that to Erik Prince
Your profanity indicates your frustration that your mighty Russia is going broke bogged down in a two-week war gone wrong.
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