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Russia’s economy is now completely driven by the war in Ukraine – it cannot afford to lose, but nor can it afford to win (theconversation.com)

submitted 9 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9438338

Military pay, ammunition, tanks, planes, and compensation for dead and wounded soldiers, all contribute to the GDP figures. Put simply, the war against Ukraine is now the main driver of Russia’s economic growth.

And it is a war that Russia cannot afford to win. The cost of rebuilding and maintaining security in a conquered Ukraine would be too great, and an isolated Russia could at best hope to become a junior partner entirely dependent on China.

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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 83 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This feels like the aside in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy about the planet that became economically incapable of building anything but shoe stores, but if it was written by the Orks from 40k.

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

but if it was written

But if it were* written

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/conditional-sentences-was-instead-of-were/

[–] jonesy@aussie.zone 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think Orks are that worried about grammar..

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You'd be surprised. Russian grammar is complex. Getting a case wrong makes a sentence stop making sense, or have a different meaning entirely.

But yeah other than that fuck putler and fuck his dumb fucking war.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

That was Orks with a k, not a c, 40k Orks are basically British football hooligans as a military faction