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Russia’s military spending has created what @elinaribakova calls musical chairs. “Everybody’s making money. Suddenly, people are enjoying higher incomes, & can get a mortgage...It makes this war popular in a practical, morbid way. You want the music going.”fortune.com/2025/06/22/russia-economy-recession-military-spending/

“Russia’s spending plans will provide the battlefield for a protracted fight between industrialists hungry for more fiscal spending, and the Finance Ministry, which guards budgetary prudence [...].” @kolyandr cepa.org/article/russias-economy-losing-altitude-not-control/

"”Today we had breakfast with the American Chamber of Commerce and lots of investors came from the US. We get a sense that lots of American companies want to come back," Kirill Dmitriev, President Putin's envoy on foreign investment, told me.”” www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr30jx6x0vo

Might be a good time to start seizing their frozen assets and sending them to Ukraine. apnews.com/article/russia-economy-recession-ukraine-conflict-9d105fd1ac8c28908839b01f7d300ebd