You can't eat tanks and jets though, the labor and resources used to maintain a war footing are vast, and must be poached from other areas of the economy. The longer you maintain this posture, the more dramatic the contraction.

Gazprom posted a loss for the first time in decades. They sell one of the most profitable substances ever discovered by man and they still couldn't turn a profit.. despite how little the sanctions are impacting them, no less!

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 months ago

The military industry is around 6% of Russian economy, it's not a war time economy LMFAO. By contrast, by the end of WW2, around 40% of US economy was devoted to the military. That's what an actual war time economy looks like. It's absolutely hilarious how people just keep parroting this nonsense without thinking about it even for a second.

The main reason for such rapid growth of Russian economy is due to the fact that decoupling from the west created a lot of economic niches to be filled. Meanwhile, the west effectively doing capital controls for Russia forced the oligarchs to invest their money domestically.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

😂 Banana...buck!