Russia gets the guns vs. butter concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model
Russia is at 7.1% GDP for war.
Ukraine is at 34% for war!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest_military_expenditures
Russia doesn’t even have a true compulsory service for this war. Those that are drafted aren’t set to Ukraine (as a rule - there are some exceptions).
Russia is relying mostly on paying out bonuses (contracts), calling up reserves, OR using troops from other nations.
Meanwhile, Ukraine gives us humorous TCC videos of young men trying to run for their lives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp26UsVbwtQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXhC8WREVKM
But keep talking.
If you just believe in it enough, say it enough, it’ll make it true.
Russia’s war economy is driving short-term growth at the cost of long-term viability. The model depends on ever-increasing state spending, primarily directed at defence, while civilian needs and productive sectors of the economy are neglected. Inflation is high, investment is constrained and essential and productive services such as education, social security and healthcare are eroding. The government’s fiscal manoeuvring – cutting social transfers, drawing from reserves and borrowing domestically – can delay, but not resolve, these problems.
This approach may produce the illusion of economic stability, but it is built on a narrow and brittle foundation. Without a pivot away from militarised spending and towards structural reform, innovation and balanced development, Russia’s economic trajectory remains unsustainable.
https://www.visionofhumanity.org/russias-war-economy-growth-built-on-unsustainable-foundations/
Everytime I use wiki I get bombed by the the pro-Ruusians!
Dudes that use TASS and RT.
Go figure.