We must be aware of his attempts to thwart the election.

And it probably shouldn't.

At some point demand from the common folk is going to be pretty inelastic.

At the same time, the government just keeps up ramping up spending and pushing people into military production supply lines, reducing the civilian workforce by motivating emigration or sending men off to be cannon fodder, all the while chewing through assets and inflating the money supply (let's ignore any supply disruptions to the civilian market).

For the same reason, the USSR tended to have frequent devaluations of their currency. I'd pick up a book at Kamkin Bookstore when it was still in existence and I was in the Rockville, MD, area and there were a couple of rounds of prices crossed out and the decimal point moved left or a book had been restamped with the price prior to being sent from the printer's.

You need a strong central executive branch for a forceful industrial policy and Russia's a nice one-party state at this point. (All of which ultimately become unbraked and unconstrained.)

Putin needs for TFG to win. The Russian economy is collapsing

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