The source is some random site that adds more than a trillion to the usual estimate because of the “informal economy”. So they claim Russia has a trillion dollar corruption/black market lol.
I understand critical support for Russia, but all this uncritical support with zero critical thinking is lame.
Russia is a fascist reactionary dictatorship. Just because they oppose the US doesn’t mean everything else they do is good as well.
Russian now spends a whole 40% of state expenditure on security and the armed forces. That’s not a good sign for them.
Russia is a fascist reactionary dictatorship
People will now resort to label any country that opposes the west as a dictatorship (and not in the marxist sense), even if it openly celebrates bourgeois elections every 6 years.
Inb4 “but they are rigged!!1!”
So are they everywhere else, either by limiting by design the choices (see: USA) or by limiting the powers that democracy grants to the people. You seem to be Swedish: you cannot even choose your own head of state.
Edit: my country constantly suffers from scandals every election in which governing parties shove thousands of fake votes by mail into the system and no one has ever called it a dictatorship simply because it is part of The West™.
Ad scandinavicum: point out your opponent’s Swedish/Norwegian/Danish nationality to immediately obliterate them.
Jokes aside: Scandinavians are overall nice fellas but damn it, they are also not only some of the people most pleased with bourgeois order that I know of, but also completely politically illiterate. Just search on Quora for people asking if Norway, Sweden or Denmark should keep their monarchies and look at their defenses to keep them around on the replies.
fascist
how?
reactionary
yes, unfortunately
dictatorship
every country is a dictatorship of one class over the others
Ticks a lot of the fascist boxes for me, mandatory nationalism and historical revisionism in school, the whole All-Russia “Young Army” National Military Patriotic Social Movement Association, massive internal security rosgvardia, claiming other countries belong to them reminds me of Lebensraum etc.
Ticks a lot of the fascist boxes for me, mandatory nationalism and historical revisionism in school, the whole pledge of alleigence and JROTC, massive internal security from the NSA, claiming land belongs to them through Manifest Destiny reminds me of Lebensraum etc.
All countries in Europe have historical revisionism in school and most of them aren’t fascist (yet). The government may have started implying that Ukraine should have remained part of Russia after the escalation in 2022, but in practice, it was very determined for Ukraine to remain intact (including a semi-autonomous Donbass) up until that point, naively believing that Germany and others would actually pressure Ukraine to uphold Minsk 1 and 2. As for nationalism, there are plenty of non-fascist countries with a very nationalistic population
Isn’t fascism a component of capitalist societies that gets turbo charged when capital finds itself in a state of crises? Sort of a self defense mechanism to keep the “left” from actually making gains among the population?
“Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.”
– Georgi Dimitrov at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International
In practice, fascism implies a few things, such as more or less total elimination of labour rights and socialist ideas, the scapegoating and extreme repression of one or more minority groups within the country (and historically in other countries as well), and a bourgeoisie unified in the goal of strengthening and maintaining their control through the power of their perceived nation
Regardless of what the article says, it is well known that GDP (even per capita PPP) is a really shitty measure of a country’s productive capabilities or resources.
Russian now spends a whole 40% of state expenditure on security and the armed forces. That’s not a good sign for them.
I disagree, of course Russia is spending a ton on the war and yea no shit the war is hurting Russia and Russians but state spending doesn’t mean much. Russia can produce its own military gear. India meanwhile despite having double the Russia’s GDP PPP is struggling to indegenize its military equipment.
Lots of bootlickers ITT. Why defend war criminals?
Russia is in Europe?
75% of Russia’s population lives in Europe. Not only that, but even if we don’t count the Asian part of Russia, the European one would still be biggest and most populous country in Europe.
What is with you people constantly trying with the “dastardly Asiatics” dogwhistles.
OK if Russia is divided with one part considered Europe and one part of considered Asia then it makes sense. I always perceived Russia as Asia.
Do you have a link to an authorative source that clearly defines the line that divedes Russia into its European and Asian parts?
So Russia is technically in the G5 ;)
It feels so good to see the west wane and by its own accord. No one invaded or bombed or colonized the west, they are destroying themselves by themselves.
btw Russia is not in Europe. Europe is a term for the EU. Russia is now Asia.
Russia is as much a part of Europe as Pakistan is India. don’t give me the geography excuse because it’s the Indian subcontinent too
btw Russia is not in Europe. Europe is a term for the EU. Russia is now Asia.
TIL Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK are Asia cause they are not in the EU!
Not to mention Ukraine… Right?
Pakistan or Bangladesh is not part of India either, there’s no contradiction here
What is a “Europe” anyway? On what basis do we decide that Europe is its own continent separate from Asia while India is just a subcontinent?
On what basis do we decide that Europe is its own continent
It’s not a continent, or even a subcontinent, it’s just a place
And Russia is not part of that place
Damn, sanctions really hitting them hard. Utterly devastated.
When ur sanctioned so McDonald’s “leaves” but the McDonald’s means of production are still in Russia so you can reopen McDonald’s without most of the money going to America
seized the means of burger production?
Sounds like the worst communist porno ever.
There is also one thing those who were forced to leave the Russian market had to sell their companies at a very low price or government just seized it with backhand . Means first it went to some shady private players and then it to the close confidants of Putin who are just state puppets.
