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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https://www.statista.com/statistics/263772/gross-domestic-product-gdp-in-russia/
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/gdp-gross-domestic-product
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=RU
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MKTGDPRUA646NWDB
https://en.thebell.io/the-russian-economy-in-9-graphs/
Most of these sources do not take into account that the Russians have been conducting a huge percentage of their international trading partners under the table to avoid the completely worthless “sanctions” that even our Western European allies have been ignoring.
The problem that we have here is that the Russians know from multiple past experiences that eventually the West will give up and walk away despite the rhetoric and propaganda from you and your Freeper buddies. This entire exercise from long before the “invasion” has been a complete waste from every possible perspective.
You are not taking into account the under the table transactions that the Russians and their trading partners have been conducting to evade the “sanctions”. Most estimates of this type of activity have been in the $100 Billion to $150 Billion per year range. Many of these transactions have been with our European allies in addition to China, India and others especially those in the BRICS economic alliance.
I can provide many links to reliable sources to confirm this if that is what you would like. Putin and his Russian underlings do not play by the rules. The sanctions imposed have hurt our own economy and our prestige in the world more than they have hurt the Russians.
Your characterization is foolish and inaccurate. But worse, false expectations play into Putin's and other malevolent characters hands. By spreading this type of misinformation, you are helping not hurting the other side. Putin loves nothing more than to whine about being treated unfairly and to use any means convince others that their aggressive actions have been necessary for their national defense. Our idiotic policies have enabled him to stay in power.
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Kyiv in 3 days! Bring your parade uniform!
What Pokrovsk doink?
Kursk in 3 days! Bring your parade mortar trowel!
Why would he care? He’s not an American.
I haven't seen this clown in a while. He and MaxiRetard are quite the team.
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