Putin Finally Admits Russia’s Economy Is In Trouble

[g5000]

April 24, 2025:

Putin's economy can only withstand another year, at most, before everything falls apart for him.

Trump's cult whines about inflation and the price of groceries.

In Russia, the central bank interest rate is 21 percent, and their inflation rate is 10.3 percent.

A huge chunk of Russian's GDP is the construction of war materiel which is nothing but burnt husks of metal now.

All that spending, and they have nothing to show for it.

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I posted that almost one year ago to the day.

I also posted this:

Putin's economy is collapsing, and he has two new NATO members on his borders.

Now is NOT the time to start yielding. We need to increase the pressure.

Reagan understood that with Afghanistan.

Some links:

Putin finally admits Russia’s economy is in trouble and grasps for answers, after warnings about a financial crisis have been piling up​

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Putin’s wartime economy is contracting, even with high oil prices​

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Putin raged during a meeting at the Kremlin this month that manufacturing, industrial production and construction are all in negative territory. His economy contracted for the first two months of this year.


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After going into recession in 2022, Putin managed to stabilize his economy through a combination of control, coercion and fear. The Kremlin imposed strict limits on moving money outside the country. Exporters were pressured to convert foreign currency into rubles. Foreign investors faced restrictions in exiting their capital and had to leave assets behind or sell at losses.

Russia ramped up defense spending and pressured companies to expand production for the war effort.


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To finance the full mobilization, Putin has repeatedly raised taxes. He increased the value-added tax from 20 percent to 22 percent and lowered the threshold so that more small- and medium-sized enterprises are required to pay it. This has “pushed hundreds of thousands of businesses to the brink,” the Financial Times reported this week, with only a quarter of small and medium enterprises in the country expressing confidence they’ll be able to continue operating.

To crackdown on tax avoidance, Putin is now moving to increase fines by up to 15-fold for businesses that don’t use cash registers.
Compounding the challenges, Russia is experiencing a shortage of labor for the first time in its modern history. Many skilled workers have fled the country to avoid being drafted to fight in Ukraine, which has produced well over a million Russian casualties. Others have been forced into the armaments industry.



TA-DAAAAAAA!

And the war is going very badly for Putin in Ukraine. Very badly.

We need to keep the pressure up.

We are helping to make the world a safer place without spilling a drop of American blood. We are bleeding Russia's military and their economy dry. With continued pressure on Putin, his economy will collapse and he just might end up toppled.

Worth every penny.

 

[g5000]

1. There are 110 statues honoring Joseph Stalin in Russia. Putin has erected 95 of them. When Trump's followers claim to be against leftists, they simply cannot be believed. Putin is trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union. Trump's followers think that isn't a threat to our interests, and they parrot all of his bullsh!t talking points like good little comrades.

2. Trump's followers whine about "rigged elections" and yet support a dictator who has rigged elections to stay in power for more than a quarter of a century, and counting. There have not been free and fair elections in Russia since 1999. Putin has murdered or imprisoned anyone who is a threat to his continued dictatorship, and even rewrote the Russian constitution to stay in power. Any whining about "rigged elections" by Trump's followers are to be taken with a grain of salt.

3. Ukraine is the breadbasket to the world. If you want even higher prices for your grocerie, let Putin gain control of a significant portion of the world's food supply in that vast agricultural land.
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4. Ukraine is a trading partner to the US. We import iron, steel, inorganic chemicals, oil, iron and steel products, and agricultural products from Ukraine. We export coal, machinery, vehicles, agricultural products, fish, seafood, and aircraft to Ukraine.

5. We are benefitting from Putin's military being decimated. That makes the whole world safer. And we get to observe the strategy and tactics of the Russian war machine. That is invaluable information. Without a single American life put at risk. That is worth every penny we spend on Ukraine.

 

[MisterBeale]

Putin's war with Ukraine is still going a hell'o'va lot better than America's with Iran IMO.