Thanks for posting this!
With the cutoff of gas to Europe - Putin’s own spiteful action in Sept. 2022 - Russia has a $100-120 billion annual revenue “hole” in their budget from income that’s no longer there.
To make up for it, they’ve been drawing down their savings (about $800 billion when the war started), and pretending that everything is still normal with the Russian economy.
But, after a few more years of no Euro gas markets, Russia will be broke ...
And nobody will lend them a dime, either.
$120 billion budget deficit you say?
What’s the new budget in the USA again? Locking in $2 TRILLION a year deficits as permanent.
And Ukraine is a basket case. USA taxpayers are paying pensions for Ukrainian retired workers.
So corrupt the whole project Ukraine scam.