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MicroWave Nov 1, 2024

Russia faces a crisis regardless if Putin ends or continues the war in Ukraine, economist says

Russia faces a crisis regardless if Putin ends or continues the war in Ukraine, economist says - Lemmy.World

Summary Regardless of Putin’s decision regarding the war in Ukraine, Russia’s economy is facing a crisis due to factors such as sanctions, a shrinking sovereign wealth fund, and a labor shortage. The war has boosted growth, but Russia cannot sustain it without significant economic consequences.

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DragonConsort Nov 1, 2024

I’m not an economist or even especially well informed, but… Isn’t war kind of… You know. Expensive?

Yeah I know it could pay off in the long term if you just swept up a country’s worth of innocents, genocided them and grabbed their land (Hi Israel), but… Fuck up the war badly enough, and there’s not going to BE a long term, just because the economy collapses. Right?

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catloaf Nov 1, 2024

You’d think they’d have learned from the cold war, but I guess not.

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eran_morad

fuckwits don’t learn from history. putin has a vast wealth of real-world failure from which to draw lessons, such as the soviet occupation of afghanistan. but, no. he needed to stroke his pencil dick over some old maps of the Blyat Empire. and now russians have to join in the suffering they brought on their cousins.