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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/44689755
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According to a report by Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, a significant portion of these expenditures is hidden: 59% of the military budget is undisclosed. During the first three quarters of 2025, spending under “open” budget items amounted to RUB 4.816 trillion, while “closed” items totaled RUB 7.038 trillion. On a year-on-year basis, the classified portion of expenditures increased by 39%.
“The Kremlin is shifting the burden of financing the war onto the population through new taxes and rising prices. Under conditions where any anti-war criticism is punished as ‘treason’, space for public discontent has virtually disappeared. As a result, from 2022 to 2025 prices for Russians rose continuously,” the intelligence service noted.
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Fuel prices increased by 29–35%, and this trend is expected to continue in 2026. Real estate prices in Russia rose by 50% between 2022 and 2025; in 2026, a further increase of 6–7% is expected, while in Moscow specifically prices may rise by up to 20%.
The most sensitive increase has been in food prices: dairy products rose by 62%, and meat by 41%. Forecasts for 2026 predict further price increases of tens of percent.
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All because one man is getting old and feels he needs to leave behind an empire before he dies. Fuck the millions who die to fulfil his ambitions.
This could also apply to Trump.
Really is Vietnam V2
Tankies be like: “This is a great use of taxpayer dollars and its going to a good cause that’s sure to benefit the working class!”
Tankies continue to support Russia and China even though they are no longer communist (Russia definitively isn’t, and what China has is not exactly communism either).
This is because they never cared about communism they are just angry West totalitarians.
China is just state capitalism.
Honest question, where do you see those tankies? Why talk about them here?
Mostly at the instances that end in .ml
This is the answer
Kinda inconsiderate to spread their insanities here.
They literally develop Lemmy, so in this specific case I think it’s good to spread awareness.
If they kept to themselves and didn’t pretend to be general-purpose instances, sure
Consider of all the washing machines that have been “found”!
Already packed and wrapped in a brick building. Ukraine is just great!!
War is a great driver of jobs for the less fortunate. It’s nice of the government to give them that opportunity, and pay them as well!
Edit: Another /s that I should have included, because MAGAs are stupid enough to seriously say something like that.
I recognize your /s, but for the uninitiated this is called the parable of the broken window and is still a very common misconception.
So is construction and community building. Better even.
I agree.
What a naive, sociopathic take.
It is, but it’s not MY take, I was just pointing out the idiocy of MAGA, who could be easily persuaded to believe and repeat that nonsense.
Priorities… Russia has failed as a country, but found out that it can still sabotage the others to not look as bad compared.
Exactly, so nothing that matters (education / healthcare). /s
It’s criminal the way that governments treat those items as just annoying things that are drug for one year to the next. They are some of the highest ROI items IF the properly invest in them (for the long term).
Where are all the Russian faux concern trolls telling Ukraine to give up and stop sending their men and women to war; while more Russian soldiers die capturing Ukrainian territory at snails pace, which worsens their already dwindling pre-war population, and their economy being constrained by unprecedented sanctions resulting in ever increasing inflation on Russia?
I oppose russian invasion but those claims come from the opposite side. The truth is between both side claims
Sometime after the initial invasion of Ukraine, I see floods of faux concerns from “peace advocates” online telling Ukraine to just stop fighting and think of the men and women dying against a bigger opponent. And yet I don’t see these “peace advocates” turn their attention to Russia, the aggressor and the one who started the war, to stop invading. I mean, peace advocates would usually tell both sides to stop. Why haven’t these peace advocates done that, and instead lay the responsibility of ceasing the fighting to Ukraine alone? It’s very obvious these are Russian trolls feigning concerns on Ukraine. These trolls mention the cost to Ukraine, but conveniently ignores and don’t mention the bigger cost to Russia-- which is the accelerated demographic decline, and loss of economic and political prestige of the country. Even if Russia comes out with more concessions than one would have liked, the cost to Russia is a Pyrrhic victory. And their invasion of Ukraine will pay negative dividends in decades to come; kinda like the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan cost them dearly, and the US adventurism in the Middle East twenty years ago is now costing the US democracy.
What does this has anything to do with what I said? Russia is the aggressor and peace happen when Russia retreat and Ukrainian will keep resisting till they are free. It was always the case in history
I know what you’re saying but what I’m saying is that some people feigning concerns tend to lay the responsibility solely on Ukraine to cease fighting. Not saying you’re one of those but the Russian trolls amplify bad faith advocacy.
Sure , propagandists defending occupation always existed. Ukraine responsibility is to push the aggressors out and not to surrender
Russia’s officially released casualty figures are horrifying. There’s not a lot ambiguous about many economic impacts. The war’s pace speaks for itself, and so does the devastation.
Debate about “truth” is largely around the justification for the war.
But as that’s one tough sell, debate has largely devolved into a disinformation/gaslighting campaign. Hence the trolls.
So I wouldn’t call it “both sides”. There’s an invader trying to justify an invasion with rampant disinformation, and a defender desperate to clear that disinformation, meaning they sometimes turn to the same tool.
One side the Russian side is the invader and the other side is Ukraine the occupied . Yes that’s two sides
Damn, who knew the Russian Federation’s budget for education and healthcare was so high!
I suppose they can make at least one of those smaller now :-/
Both if they play it right.
What percentage of that dark money would directly go into Putin’s coffers??
There are no “Putins coffers”. He just uses Russian funds directly 😁
These numbers mean nothing. At that level it’s monopoly money. They just print more when needed.
Even if that were true, the opportunity cost vs healthcare or education would be unchanged.
To buy tech from China, they need exchangeable currency. To get that, they need to sell products or resources worth something. But their ability to sell that is limited by labour shortage (getting a million men killed or injured + diverting a lot of labour into arms manufacturing) and by resource shortages (Ukrainian “sanctions by drone” and other kinds of sanctions).
War is very expensive because an opponent won’t pay money for the goods one delivers them, but the goods are high tech and need to be delivered in high volume.
well, that does not work for import, I don’t think they are self-sufficient
War is great for the Industrial Complex on both sides, so we should always hope for a good war to help the economy. War is Patriotic.
Edit: /S, because I keep forgetting that MAGAs are so ignorant that they’d actually believe that.
You dropped your /s.
