It's not going to save Iran from US stratospheric bombers, but yes the capability to throw 200 de-facto cruise missiles and 4,000 FPV drones a day at the front lines is a huge threat to anyone unfortunate enough to share a border with Russia.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-economy-recession-ukraine-...
https://theconversation.com/the-russian-economy-is-headed-fo...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-faces-biggest-economic...
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/03/vlad...
nm, Im sure the more up to date projections are accurate and the projections from 2022, 2023, 2024 and early 2025 were abberations.
> Tensions among Putin’s top officials over risks to the economy spilled into the open at the flagship St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last week.
> “We are on the verge of slipping into a recession,” Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said during a panel discussion in which Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina argued the economy was experiencing a necessary cooling. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov acknowledged “we’re going through a cold spell now.”
> Putin made his position clear in a speech the following day. “Some specialists, experts, point to the risks of stagnation and even recession,” he said. “This, of course, should not be allowed under any circumstances.”
In the near term, the only way to get there is probably 100% uncapping US production, maybe holding our nose and getting Venezuela's production back up.
At some point things will have to come to a head because civilian businesses, military manufacturing and military service are competing for the same workforce, one of those actually consuming the people. The govt can keep things going for a long time under difficult conditions though. More of a concern is probably what happens when the war ends. Can they even let the war end now? They have a war economy and going back is going to be hard.
The Economist reports that the war is causing a boom in some small towns in Russia. There's a big death benefit paid to the families.
That "purpose" being dying for Putin's pointless and evil war. Fuck Putin.
I searched for the CSIS study to see what their methodology was and found a video
https://www.csis.org/analysis/evening-one-million-russian-ca...
...which explained:
* Nothing. Nada. Literally zero evidence of any kind combined with literally zero analysis.
* An assertion that this number "proves" that it's not true that "Russia holds all the cards". They appear to want to rebut Trump's opinion.
* The final comment was about the military assistance bill and how important it was that it be passed.
There was also some random facts that look like they might support the original claim but which emphatically do not (e.g. amount of land taken).
The average Russian would of course also be equally inclined to believe their military industrial complex's PR lobby group when it makes unsourced claims like this. That's coz the average Russian is not too smart.
>In That Number ... 1 million
With a link to https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-battlefield-woes-ukrai...
which has a PDF: https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2025-...
Which has a pageful of sources for the numbers
Nothing about how the American military industrial complex's lobby and this war's biggest profiteer by far pulled that impressive 1 million number from tho.
Dont worry those weapons did tons of good though. Super successful. As your article points out - it's imperative you keep buying.
Absolute floor of dead russians is 111 thousand
Korean war had 2.5 million military and about the same of civilian casualities. And it was 20 million country fighting 9 million country.
Population of russia is 140 million. And Ukraine 37 million.
-- Joseph Stalin
Trasmatta•7mo ago