The Baltic countries are arming themselves massively and everyone is talking about a possible invasion by Moscow’s troops. In Lithuania, a new evacuation plan is already in place.
The Baltic countries are arming themselves massively and everyone is talking about a possible invasion by Moscow’s troops. In Lithuania, a new evacuation plan is already in place.
That is the problem with transitioning your government into a war time economy, once it starts sustaining itself it’s nearly impossible to decouple from without initiating a huge recession.
It’s the reason Putin is treating peace negotiations as a joke, there is no economic incentive for peace. Most foreign capital left Russia after the war in Georgia in 08, and the rest left or were gobbled up by the state after the war in Ukraine.
If the Russian government doesn’t sustain a war in Ukraine or start another war relatively soon their economy will soon spiral out of control. The Guns vs Butter model is still a bitch to deal with, and Russia as a nation throughout history seems to be incapable of learning that particular lesson.