Russia's War Economy Living Its Last Days! Inside Putin's Ultimate Financial Meltdown - The Russian Dude

[TexasTowelie]

Russia’s war economy is collapsing from the inside. The Kremlin shifted the entire country onto “military rails,” flooding factories with wartime orders and redirecting workers from civilian jobs into tank repair plants and drone assembly lines. On paper, it looks like growth. In reality, it’s economic cannibalism. Russia is burning money, resources, industry, and its own workforce just to keep the war going another month. The salaries in the military sector are now so inflated that nurses, drivers, mechanics, and teachers are abandoning their jobs to work for the war machine, causing shortages everywhere else. Inflation is rising, shelves are filling with cheap substitutes, public services are breaking down, and food and medicine quality is collapsing.

But the worst damage is human. Russia has already lost the most trained and experienced soldiers, engineers, and workers — the people needed to rebuild the country after the war. The next waves being sent to the front are untrained and unprepared, pulled directly from factories, hospitals, and schools. When these men don’t return, Russia loses not just soldiers, but its economic future.

The war economy only works while the war continues. It has no future in peace. The moment the conflict ends, salaries collapse, military factories shut down, and millions of workers will have no jobs to return to. The Kremlin knows this, which is why peace is now more dangerous to Putin than war itself. This system is not built to win — it is built to delay collapse. But every passing day makes the eventual crash more devastating.

This is the story of Russia’s war economy meltdown, the disappearing workforce, inflation, the human cost, and the inevitable economic collapse that awaits the country the moment the guns go silent. Not if — when.

[BobTheSubgenius]

1. Apparently, there is a rather precipitous dropoff from World's #1 military to (supposed) #2.

It's hard to say which is farther from top-notch - Russia's war planning, or its execution. Although MASSIVE credit and respect has to go to Ukraine's people, its military and its leadership, a good part of their success can be attributed to military aid from the West. It would seem that Western military tech is leaps and bounds ahead of Russia's.

For example, I read a military analyst's statement that, in an open terrain arena, a single Abrams could comfortably handle 5 or 6 of ANY of Russia's tank iterations, let alone the garbage they are now left with. If American tankers were manning the tanks in that conflict, it would be even worse for Russia. The US Army's tank crews are the best in the world, no comparison. The disparity between Russia's capabilities and NATO"s, let alone the US, is so huge that no one should want that confrontation to occur. Casualty estimates range from 100-1 to 1000-1.

Serious danger of the nukes coming out at that point.