Four years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian economy is showing clear signs of structural exhaustion. The contours of a genuine economic endgame are coming into view for Russia. This is the finding of a new Kiel Report published by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics.
  • Photonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    I’ll believe it when I see it. I have been hearing this since 2022 and they’re unleashing more and more ballistic missiles on Kyiv every week

    • badgermurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      You are seeing it, it is just very far away and doesn’t happen all at once. Just as an organism can have 100 things wrong with it, be terminally ill and refuse to die for decades, a country can be in a tailspin of decline for a long time.

      Russia has dwindling international partners, ever-fewer customers for its resources, crippling domestic fuel shortages, and a devastated working-age male population. Just as its taking a decade or more to finish crashing, they’ll feel this for long after they stop doing the dumb things that have caused it.

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Part of the reason this happens is these changes take a lot longer than anyone would really like.

      But, there are widespread fuel shortages in Russia, most of the country is facing some type of rationing, and that’s something that hasn’t happened before.

      • Photonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        Let’s hope it also stops the war, but I think it will just make things more awful for poor people in Siberia who are already living under shitty circumstances

    • Glowstick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      First half of your sentence yes, second half of your sentence no. There are ebbs and flows of numbers of missiles launched, but compared to earlier in the war I’m pretty sure Russia is launching significantly fewer now, especially if you consider the destructive power of each missile used

      • Photonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        No? They’re definitely ramping up their ballistic missile attacks and causing a lot more damage. Of course it’s not at the same pace as it was in the beginning, but that was after years of building up.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Some blog post from some “think tank”

    This is a nothing burger