Posted on 09/05/2025 5:57:31 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin has been issued a stark warning about the state of Russia's economy. It comes after one of his close allies and head of the biggest bank in Russia, German Gref, urged him to enforce immediate measures to avoid a recession.
Gref, the CEO of Sberbank, warned Putin that the country's wartime economy is stagnating. Military spending in Russia has hit record highs since the invasion of Ukraine, causing inflation and high interest rates. The economy is also suffering from a shortage of workers due to the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of men into the military.
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Pretty pathetic how you used Putin and Stalin and ‘dictator for life’ in the same sentence but now claim you weren’t making a direct comparison.
Is this the type of word weaseling they teach at NATO?
Yes, they are two examples of Russia’s dictators for life, the most famous one and the current one.
If you were less emotional and would simply read the post that I was responding to and then the post I made, you would understand, instead you keep going on about pretending that someone posted that “”there’s no difference between Putin and Stalin”” and you also keep trying to pretend something about NATO is in there.
Goofy, and a waste of time.
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