Wait till the Russians find out there is no money for their pensions.
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All my contacts in Russia ( I worked there for three years) are receiving their Pensions fine. In addition, they travel free on all trains, buses, metro, they get a free ticket on Aeroflot once a year. They don’t pay for medical care, and most not taxed when retired.
Their debt to GDP is 17 percent, not the 120 percent plus the US has…the US will go bankrupt way before Russia.
“They don’t pay for medical care, and most not taxed when retired.”
Russia is in shambles. Specialized hospitals have been converted to treat see wounded.
Doctors have to take second jobs to survive.
Doctors have been moved into occupied regions.
12% of schools have no running water.
Putin can save the retirement system by moving the male element age to 65. The male life expectancy is 67.
“Their debt to GDP is 17 percent, not the 120 percent plus the US has…the US will go bankrupt way before Russia.”
In a country where more than half the population lives directly off state subsidies, where the poverty rate will exceed 13 percent in 2021 (even though poverty criteria are much lower than in the West), and where 62 percent of Russians have neither savings nor enough to buy more than clothes and food, the long-term risk for Russia is to find itself in an economic situation identical to that which preceded the fall of the Soviet Union.
https://warontherocks.com/2024/09/russia-is-on-a-slow-path-to-bankruptcy-but-how-slow/