Rouble hit 110 against the dollar after US introduced sanctions against Gazprombank, Russia’s third-largest bank

  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Let’s say it how it is: it doesn’t matter if:

    • Russia wins the war
    • Russian citizens don’t feel the pain
    • The West just continues treating Ukraine as a drone testing area
    • Trump stops helping Ukraine

    Nearly a third of Russia’s 2024 budget has been allocated to military spending, the highest level since the cold war.

    While all of NATO’s military spending wobbles around 2% like there isn’t a war going on.

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      1 month ago

      Don’t think just looking at the regular yearly budget covers everything spent in the context of that war (e.g. Germany’s special budget, EU-level spendings, etc.), but I agree there should be (even) more.