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Putinβs Russia is staying afloat despite the onslaught of Western sanctions. The ban on the export of key technologies to Russia has meant that it has had to reinvent its economic and productive fabric. Now, in the midst of its invasion of Ukraine, it is seeking to strengthen itself militarily in the hope of achieving its goal in the invaded country.
By dodging sanctions, increasing the national defense budget and investing in the arms industry, Russia seems to have managed to adapt to its new reality. Even IMF projections place it among the nations with economic growth, albeit modest. But is there a catch to this growth?
Where will it get the money to sustain its war efforts? To what extent will more defense spending lead to a better military? Can it solve its endemic problems? In this video we tell you.
Interesting links:
Massicot, Dara. 2022. βThe Russian Militaryβs People Problem.β Foreign Affairs. At: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2022-05-18/russian-militarys-people-problem
Massicot, Dara. 2023. βWhat Russia got wrongβ. Foreign Affairs. At: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/what-russia-got-wrong-moscow-failures-in-ukraine-dara-massicot
Pavel, Luzin. 2022. βThe Russian armed forces on steroidsβ. The Jamestown Foundation. At: https://jamestown.org/program/the-russian-armed-forces-on-steroids/
VV.AA. 2023. βHow Russia dodges oil sanctions on an industrial scaleβ. The Economist. At: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/01/29/how-russia-dodges-oil-sanctions-on-an-industrial-scale?gclid=Cj0KCQiA6fafBhC1ARIsAIJjL8l3WEUP8g0a82ixOFoprM0PmTbqHritSo-oivmqUwPa-BByjAsxmv8aAnNmEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
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IMF announced that the Russia economy will grow faster than Germany who is the power house of Europe and Britain economy will go negative. USA caused China and Russia to unite, plus the BRICS will sadly destroy the US dollar. I guess putting to end the money laundering in Ukraine. Already Europe is waking up finally realizing the US destroyed the Nord stream pipeline to weaken Europe and Russia. Sad state of affairs.
Russia is failing in Ukraine? Who are you kidding?
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Possible collusion with the mighty Drug Cartel , may bring sufficient financial support & de stabilized the West
Another pro western documentary that isn't well researched. What a biased documentary. Nip picking information in order to push a narrative.
The Soviet Union didn't need international trade to subsidize it's military.
Prokopanda
Excellent analysis π π
Yes, they are able to do it.
Worse for the west, everything US trying to weakening Russia with are kicking twice as hard back.
Western economy collapse, Russia don't.
They should include North Korea Soldiers…
If US and EU are supporting Ukraine…then definitely Russian should use and ask for help from NK , Iran and Cuba…πLong live USSR
Short answer, No. It is all downhill for Russia from now on.
Soon they will use horses, bow and arrows
More interested in after the war does the Chinese military replace the russian gear.
Russia is a superpower long long ago even before world war 2 so the economy can withstand any western sanction bro .and also can trade anywhere in the world even in the West.
How will they feed and clothe them ? Oh right ,they just want to kill them
This war is a stupid ego trip by vlad the expaler.
chook raffles
"20% of the Russians don't have water access"
When mentioning this, you gotta realise that there are too many places where water is frozen year around.
NATO and Russia have been in a tense geopolitical standoff for the better part of 20 years, probing one another for weaknesses, looking like they were in a stalemate. Then all of a sudden Russia threw its self down the stairs for no apparent reason and continued to tumble for an entire year while NATO spends the minimum effort ensuring the staircase doesn't collapse and I continue having no idea what I'm watching
I don't know how Russia is going to pay for all those troops and how they will find the weapons and equipment to prepare them for battle . They can't even properly supply the men they have now . I think the figures are all propaganda and they will have great difficulty raising enough conscripts and great difficulty training them to any real acceptable standard in a reasonable time . Most of what Russia is doing in the last few months needed to be done way before the invasion as normal preparations for the invasion . They grossly underestimated Ukrainian will and resistance and were lulled into a false sense of security by the easy conquest of Crimea and believing their own propaganda . It's all a bit late now as I can't see that Russia will ever control Kyiv or most of Ukraine no matter how many troops they raise so on that basis Russia's hold on Eastern Ukraine and Crimea will become harder and harder and more costly until Russia just can't afford it any longer . Ukraine is poised for another major counteroffensive , probably in the coming weeks and that will tip the scales even further against Russia's hold . Maybe even Crimea might be liberated or partially liberated this year . I hope so because if the Naval bases at Sevastopol are liberated and the Black Sea fleet destroyed or ejected then Putin is in serious trouble .
Know that North Korea , iran and China are his close allies. Very close! They could be the weapons and ammunitions supplier
Definitely funded by Xi Jin ping
The same boring talking point and still none of any predications came true. Russia is still managing and the 3rd world is asked to pay a heavy price for a war that is not theirs. The west has gone completely mad. Inflation and energy price is hurting ppl and soon or later it will explode.
The problem how about the west and eu they havent invested in any of it just look at your tanks and to add that where will u get oil. Look now just today how meny villages are occupied again so stop it and rather send food to ukrain than wepons leave rusia be they are much much more resilient than eu and us. Stop financing that war. Rusia is not even using army but paying other people for their war.
Yeah, but… assumptions about the Russian economy here are made on the basis of figures from – wait for it – the Russian government… see the problem? Plenty of independent economists have examined the effect of sanctions on Russia, looking at trade figures from reliable sources, ALL of these show a large fall in the size of the Russian economy. No surprise there, and more to come.
Of course: Russia can use all resources that cannot be exported, due to sanctions, to make ammunition and weapons. And all people who become unemployed will join the army. Russia will mobilize 25 million men.
Make some new content . Tired of hearing thisπ
The morbid truth is that all those casualties and people fleeing the country also reduce demand for the goods and services for which they are suffering supply shortages. I don't know how much that grim calculus helps Russia avoid the worst case scenario in the short term, but it obviously isn't sustainable.
Russia needs to wake up if they continue itβs the fatal end of their country. Stop now
Cold war arms race mistake 2.0. But to be honest, that is natural for Russians, they always needed superior numbers advantage in order to win wars in the past.
Is there any possibility of a few commanders to start more of a revolution style of 1917? And I mean what happened to force rhe tzar to abdicate. 9:40
you need teeth whitening!
8million Russia military dead in WW2 to beat Germany and with the help of the USA and the UK and commonwealth countries.
With a dying population how many Russians will die to beat all of Europe and the USA. ???
Their only chance is to buy from China and the likes, which they are probably already doing for long time because they would have run out of ammunition long time ago.
China will weaken itself if it gives Russia military equipment.
China has special trade exemptions because it is still developing, so how does that continue to work?????
Russia promised China a spring walk into Ukraine, not a world war, not something on a different timetable for Chinese ambitions.
Russia is still holding Chinese borderlands and military strength will be needed to reincorporate into China.
Fossil fuels and minerals for Chinese industry safe from Western interference.
China needs Russia to keep going and keep bleeding.
Xi killed his own people so a few dead Russians over his northern border is nothing.
Russia is showing it is a failed military force, a weak partner for China.
Looks like Russia is on a slow trajectory downward