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TexasTowelie

(116,773 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2024, 10:19 AM Apr 2024

The Real Cost of Russia's War: Tax Hikes, Healthcare Crisis, and Economic Turmoil - The Gaze

The Kremlin has increased budget expenditures by 5 trillion roubles. Over the past five years, the Russian budget has doubled in nominal terms. Almost a third of the state treasury in 2024 will be spent on Russia's war against Ukraine. But the financing of aggression comes from other sources as well. So it is difficult to establish the exact amount of expenditures for Russia's war against Ukraine. Where Kremlin gets the money for war and how such spendings affect Russians - watch in our news story.

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The Real Cost of Russia's War: Tax Hikes, Healthcare Crisis, and Economic Turmoil - The Gaze (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2024 OP

We won the cold war by compelling the USSR to try to match the level of spending the US does for defense ... marble falls Apr 2024 #1

marble falls

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1. We won the cold war by compelling the USSR to try to match the level of spending the US does for defense ...

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Mon Apr 8, 2024, 10:23 AM

Apr 2024

... we should be sending every kind of weapon - short of nuclear - to Ukraine. Russian cannot afford to fight against what we could be doing.

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