The Russian President has approved a record budget increase of around 30% for military spending in 2024, reaching 36.6 trillion rubles (€376.7 billion).
Their biggest problem is not the money but the people that have to build the tanks, if you kill many men in a war you will have less people that can produce goods especially in the steel industy where most of the people working there will be men that build the tanks for your war.
Since the ruble was collapsed in value, are we sure this isn’t inflation of existing current expenditures?
Their biggest problem is not the money but the people that have to build the tanks, if you kill many men in a war you will have less people that can produce goods especially in the steel industy where most of the people working there will be men that build the tanks for your war.
Emigration due to the war is about 10x of the Russian losses as reported by Ukraine