Posted on 09/18/2025 10:00:22 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is deliberately slowing its economic growth in order to suppress inflation.
"As for the decline from more than 4% GDP growth: this is not a decline, it is a deliberate action. It is a slowdown in growth in exchange for curbing inflation and maintaining macroeconomic stability," Putin said during a televised meeting with top lawmakers.
A graph published in Russian central bank's report earlier in September showed two consecutive quarters of gross domestic product (GDP) decline in quarter-on-quarter terms, aligning with the common definition of a technical recession.
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Cure inflation, Russia/US/anywhere, by eliminating debt-based Fiat Central Bankstering.
Russia is out of money - they don’t have much choice except to print it.
Sounds about right. Some nations around the world are nearing or in recession, including Europe's powerhouse Germany, while France seems to be moving in the direction of assistance from von der Leyen, and news from Britain is of approaching the IMF for a bailout of some sort. That Russia is in that same boat seems no surprise.
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Broke enough to have a 20% debt to GDP ratio. What is ours?
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As of January 2025, the Russian government owed $291.7 billion.
At the same time the United States government owed $36.1 trillion which is approximately 125 times more than the Russian government did at that time.
This is just one measure...
Russia has the largest amount of known valuable natural resources of any country in the world with other countries lined up to purchase them even with sanctions and heated rhetoric. They are not out of money and compared to our own country they have many alternatives to just printing more of it.
I understand that you want to believe that Russia is now on the ropes. It is just not the case. If Ukraine's funding from the US and other foreign sources ended tomorrow the “war” would be over almost immediately.
Wars of choice screw a nation - especially when the rest of the world isn't in a shooting war and is spending their time developing AI, quantum computing, android robotics, self driving cars and get to test all their weapons systems against the Russians. Sure the rest of the world has problems but they aren't actively committing suicide like Russia.
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For those who do not know, not including “unfunded liabilities” the United State's debt to GDP ratio is approximately 125%. We are essentially already broke. Our government has no right to continue this madness.
Despite our best-efforts Russia's economy has been outperforming ours and the economies of our Western European allies for the last four years. Putin has an approximately 90% approval rating in Russia. The Russian people believe that the war with a NATO proxy regime to protect their borders is worthwhile, especially when armed drones launched from Ukraine have been able to cause damage to facilities in Moscow repeatedly. This is not to mention $Billions of damages done to other facilities even further away along with the destruction of oil pipelines.
Every aggressive action that we have encouraged and funded by our puppet state in Ukraine has only made the Russian people more paranoid and more supportive of Putin's dictatorial government. This has been nothing but counterproductive, along with the actions that our intelligence agencies and others took to destabilize the region long before the “war” broke out.
By gold-per-capita measure, Russia is less... but in the ballpark of US gold-per-capita. This is REAL Money we’re talking about. (USA is 1.47x higher per person)
Now, if you’d like to talk about fake “money”, or derivative “money”, the US has $100 of national debt for every $1 of Russian national debt.
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LOL, Russia "officially" has 18% interest rates(Remember Carter years?) with a -4% contraction in GDP
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Russia is an over-extended would-be empire with no meaningful advanced industries. As you say, it’s resource rich (as are other failing states like Nigeria) with limits in what they can sell overseas or to their neighbors.
Before the invasion, Russia sold $173 billion in goods to the EU. Last year it sold $48 billion.
In the same period, Russian exports to China jumped from $69 billion to $129 billion.
That is a net $65 billion reduction in exports.
For all our deficit issues, the dollar has climbed from 74 rubles to 83 despite falling against a broad basket of other currencies.
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