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> 8) Less sanction efficiency than ever

> So according to the World Bank (not a Russian source!), Russia just flipped Japan to become the fourth largest global economy in GDP-by-PPP:

After reading this line you can easily identify that author is either propagandist or moron.

This is how Russia "increased GDP":

  1 - Paid to restore tons of USSR weaponry garbage to just burn it yesterday.
  2 - Funded building of new weaponry that will be burned today.
  3 - Moved 5-10% of population to "military economy" building some military crap that have no other use other than get burned tomorrow.
  4 - Took 300,000 random people out of real economy via forced mobilization and thrown them on frontlines.
  5 - Hired 500,000+ poor or destitute people who had annual salary of $3600. Hired them for $2000 / month and paid them out $40,000 sign up bonus to go die on frontlines.
  6 - Killed at least 100,000 of them and paid out $50,000 for each dead body to a family.
  7 - Made like another 200,000+ of cripples that wont be able to work like until they die. So more spending.
And in process doubled mass of local currency in economy from 2022 from 65 trillion rubles to 117 trillions.

Economy is booming!

parent SXX 1 year ago

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