"... Four years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian economy is showing clear signs of structural exhaustion. The contours of a genuine economic endgame are coming into view for Russia. ..."

#RussiaEconomy #Russianinvasion #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/endgame-russias-war-economy-hits-its-limits/

"🔥 Putin’s hardliners are warning of internal collapse.

Meanwhile, the FSB is stripping billionaires while the army hunts the poor for the front.

And now Putin is replacing economists with backroom mystics - his own Rasputin.

👉 Ended badly for Tsar as it will for Putin."
- Jason Jay Smart‬

#Putin #Russia #RussiaEconomy #FSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cBDwRP6uY

"🔥 Crimea became a catastrophic trap for the Russian economy. The war industry is stalling, banks are freezing, and elite confidence is vaporizing.

👉 Ukraine systematically turned a supply crisis into a complete collapse of Moscow's state capacity."
- Jason Jay Smart‬

#RussiaEconomy #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=260-Ag0g1Uc

"🔥 The Kremlin has hit a financial dead end. Soldiers won't defend a failing regime once salaries stop arriving... and it could happen in 60 days.

👉 Putin is trapped between cash running out, losing territory, and an imminent soldier revolt."
- ‪Jason Jay Smart‬

#RussiaEconomy #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk64UjfbqEM

"... This video argues that the world needs a serious conversation about what real Russian transformation would mean. Not cosmetic reform. Not a temporary thaw. Not another cycle of “Russia is changing” followed by rearmament, repression, and expansion. ...
The choice is stark: Russia can become a community of peaceful, self-governing peoples — or it can perform another thaw, wait for the world to relax, and start again."

#Russia #RussiaEconomy #RussianSociety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ2z7auTcvw

"Putin is under pressure. He wants to finance his historic war while simultaneously keeping the population calm. These cannot both be achieved. That is his predicament."
- Nico Lange‬

#Putin #PutinsWar #Russia #RussianSociety #RussiaEconomy #RussiaUkraineWar
https://cepa.org/article/putins-deepening-problems-are-europes-opportunity/

Great essay about why it will be hard for Putin to end the war without throwing Russia into chaos.

Russian economy and society have been reorganized around war. There are now powerful domestic incentives that make ending the war difficult and even dangerous for Russia’s president....

#Russia #RussiaEconomy #RussianSociety #Putin

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/inertia-russias-war