Russia plans to increase military spending to $142 billion
September 24, 2024
Russia plans to increase military spending to $142 billion
by Mil_in_ua
24 comments
When you live in a fantasy land, you can dream up whatever troop and budget numbers you want to project as part of a narrative.
Reality, like gravity, brings such ambition crashing to Earth.
Rubles?
Considering the state of their economy, could that even buy a Big Mac? A real one, not Vkusno & Tochka’s rotten meat-like knock-off.
“Time to reduce the budget for building hospitals and more schools” – Vladimir Putin, probably
I wonder what percentage increase that is in real terms? With the state of the Russian economy: exchange rates, exhange fees, import difficulties and spiking wage bills means that the budget needs to increase by a significant amount just maintain the production and staffing levels of the previous year.
Good, the more they spend the poorer they get and faster they fall.
They can increase it to whatever they want, but every single billion spent on their pointless war just hastens the end of ***their*** regime. This is what they don’t understand because they *really* are that dumb.
BMP-3 designed in 1987 and a photo of a tank made in 2023. I wonder how much of the budget will go to actual production and how much will stay in the oligarch pockets. Just spend nothing and use it to immediately pull back from Ukraine.
That’s a big number, but is that with the graft, theft, and poor workmanship factors baked in ?
Russian people must be delighted
Meanwhile people are getting poorer.
That will go down well this winter when heating systems etc start breaking down due to lack of maintenance
đź‘Ź
Vodka ain’t cheap my friends
I feel like we’ve seen this story before, it ended with the dissolution of that country.
Surely they won’t spend it on Russian weapons…..maybe if they ask nicely we’ll sell them our old shit
No problemo. Just print more money. What could go wrong?
In the next 24 months, I believe Russia will experience hyper inflation especially if their oil and gas infrastructure gets decimated.
Use money you don’t have. Good idea, as usual
Putins escape money.
Nothing like borrowing billions to loose it on a no-win endeavour
Russia to build state-of-the-art morgue.
It’s inefficient and corrupt, so basically 35 billion.
Putin might want to remember this
How why did the United States win the Cold War? Ronald Reagan recognized the Soviet Union and its allies as having bankrupt economies, but Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise to power secured victory for the US during the Cold War because Gorbachev realized that the command economy of the Soviet Union had become more like a developing country than the US
Well, let’s see if anyone will loan them the money. They are on the verge of collapse as it is.
24 comments
When you live in a fantasy land, you can dream up whatever troop and budget numbers you want to project as part of a narrative.
Reality, like gravity, brings such ambition crashing to Earth.
Rubles?
Considering the state of their economy, could that even buy a Big Mac? A real one, not Vkusno & Tochka’s rotten meat-like knock-off.
“Time to reduce the budget for building hospitals and more schools” – Vladimir Putin, probably
I wonder what percentage increase that is in real terms? With the state of the Russian economy: exchange rates, exhange fees, import difficulties and spiking wage bills means that the budget needs to increase by a significant amount just maintain the production and staffing levels of the previous year.
Good, the more they spend the poorer they get and faster they fall.
They can increase it to whatever they want, but every single billion spent on their pointless war just hastens the end of ***their*** regime.
This is what they don’t understand because they *really* are that dumb.
BMP-3 designed in 1987 and a photo of a tank made in 2023. I wonder how much of the budget will go to actual production and how much will stay in the oligarch pockets. Just spend nothing and use it to immediately pull back from Ukraine.
That’s a big number, but is that with the graft, theft, and poor workmanship factors baked in ?
Russian people must be delighted
Meanwhile people are getting poorer.
That will go down well this winter when heating systems etc start breaking down due to lack of maintenance
đź‘Ź
Vodka ain’t cheap my friends
I feel like we’ve seen this story before, it ended with the dissolution of that country.
Surely they won’t spend it on Russian weapons…..maybe if they ask nicely we’ll sell them our old shit
No problemo. Just print more money. What could go wrong?
In the next 24 months, I believe Russia will experience hyper inflation especially if their oil and gas infrastructure gets decimated.
Use money you don’t have. Good idea, as usual
Putins escape money.
Nothing like borrowing billions to loose it on a no-win endeavour
Russia to build state-of-the-art morgue.
It’s inefficient and corrupt, so basically 35 billion.
Putin might want to remember this
How why did the United States win the Cold War?
Ronald Reagan recognized the Soviet Union and its allies as having bankrupt economies, but Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise to power secured victory for the US during the Cold War because Gorbachev realized that the command economy of the Soviet Union had become more like a developing country than the US
Well, let’s see if anyone will loan them the money. They are on the verge of collapse as it is.