i thought russia’s economy was the size of italy’s. and it’s fighting against ukraine supplied by all of nato.
hmm.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 4 days ago
The 3 day war is crazy man… It’s like a dudebro getting out of his lifted pavement-princess pickup truck with the express intent to stomp on an anthill to prove how strong he is only to get swallowed whole into the earth and eaten alive.
huf@hexbear.net 4 days ago
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 4 days ago
I’m sorry, notaglobalsuperpower says what? Because until Russia invaded Ukraine, Russia had convinced most of the world, including itself, that it was a near-peer to the US like China. Most people in the west and elsewhere, myself and putin included, expected Russia to completely steamroll over Ukraine in a matter of days to weeks.
… But then we got to watch as they paradropped elite troops into the middle cities, forgot that tanks needed infantry support, experienced logistical failures a mile from the border, started depleting stockpiles that were supposedly much deeper, and began conscripting undesirables for a meatgrinder …
Russia is big and has a lot of nukes, people, and equipment: but it’s no soviet union. If the new narrative is that the third largest power on the planet is equal to Italy and that somehow makes you feel better: be my guest.
huf@hexbear.net 4 days ago
this wasnt my narrative, it was a thing everyone kept saying when the war started.
falcunculus@jlai.lu 4 days ago
Russia indeed has a small economy if converted into dollars, but not if the intermal price of goods and services is considered. This is because the conversion only works for economies that are well connected and comparable.
This is doubly true for military matters which are very illiquid, and even more so given the sanctions Russia is facing. The measure you are looking for is called purchasing power parity adjustment, or “GDP (PPP)” for short. It is hard to compile though.
No need for “hmm”, just readily available knowledge in economics.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I guess you can do allot when you don’t care about your own people and you have oligarc piggy banks to crack. Also when you have mercenary armies across the globe holding on to gold mines.
My guess is that before the war, russians were not suffering as much and oligarcs were getting richer.
huf@hexbear.net 4 days ago
depends on which russians. the ones in eastern ukraine were being ethnically cleansed. i guess that was bad.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 4 days ago
Lol sure bud. But I guess the great cabal of almost every country on earth and … Wikipedia editors … Are suppressing the truth: Russia is the good guy and it was forced to do imperialism for the good of “ethnic Russians” (which is happily mulches into Ukraine’s fields)
Hexbears are a living meme lol
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 days ago
I guess you can do allot when you don’t care about your own people and you have oligarc piggy banks to crack
You say that but the west doesn’t seem to be doing a lot, just throwing Ukrainians into a meatgrinder to NOT take back the land Russia has occupied, which is essentially all of the territory it actually even wants
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 4 days ago
Oh, is the Russian army on the verge of collapse again? I lost track after thr fifth or sixth time
tankfox@midwest.social 4 days ago
Whenever the money supply gets low they liquidate a Russian CEO and grab the assets. The whole point of giving all the money to just a few people means that when Putin needs some cash he knows exactly where to go to get it. 100% tax rate on the least popular oligarchs!
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 3 days ago
That would seem to create incredible economic and social instability, especially among the ruling class. What makes you think it’s the case?