Russia is out of money - they don’t have much choice except to print it.
USA too
Broke enough to have a 20% debt to GDP ratio. What is ours?
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.
People in Siberia better start learning that Cyrillic form of Chinese
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.