It Begins! Russian Economy Just Plummeted. New Economic Data Reveals Huge Gaps - The Russian Dude

[TexasTowelie]

The Russian economy is spiraling into freefall, and the latest data confirms it. Moscow is burning through money at a staggering rate of 500,000 rubles every second, with July’s deficit alone surging past 1.2 trillion rubles. By mid-2025, the Kremlin already overshot its annual budget targets by 3 trillion, proving the collapse is structural, not temporary. Years of propaganda about stability, fake import substitution, and shadow oil sales to China and India created the illusion of resilience, but the reality is an acetone economy—poison disguised as strength. Factories are draining resources, debt is exploding, and ordinary Russians are being bled dry while Putin pours everything into the war machine. What was once a manageable shortfall is now a catastrophic monthly deficit, and the Kremlin’s desperate borrowing exposes the country’s fragile finances.

The cracks are widening into chasms, raising alarms that this meltdown may not only destroy Russia’s economy but also push Putin into reckless new wars, possibly targeting the Baltics. Hyperinflation, default, or total cannibalization of society are the only outcomes left. Numbers don’t lie, and Russia’s numbers are screaming collapse.

[returnee]

1. I don't like to think about....

….what a truly desperate Putin would do?

[MrWowWow]

2. Desperate Tyrants Do Desperate Things

* Like launching tactical nuke-tipped missiles into Ukraine from Belarus.

* Like attacking Poland and Romania.

* Like blowing up Ukraine's nuke power plants.