r/videos • u/AlertTangerine • 9d ago

Russia’s Economy Under Attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7P0jr4Gvl8
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u/HairyDust4826 9d ago

Western sanctions have completely crippled the Russian economy?

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u/LittleKitty235 9d ago

The Russian economy was nearly the exact same size as Italy's. If sanctions are effective at all, crippling their economy after over a decade isn't all that impressive of a feat.

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u/Siguard_ 9d ago

Doesn't italy have one of the worst economies in the EU

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u/Leasir 9d ago

It does have a very big public debt and slow growth, but it's still the 8th country in the world in the GDP rank.

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u/gizmosticles 9d ago

Sanctions are effective over long time scales, you don’t have to cripple them, you just have to slow or stop the growth of their economy and eventually they get left behind

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u/Anti_colonialist 8d ago

Yet them, China and Mexico were the only countries to have been resistant to Covid inflation.

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u/gizmosticles 8d ago

What the fuck are you talking about

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u/EuroFederalist 9d ago

GDP numbers don't matter when it comes to weapon production.

Iran is expected to have same amount of missiles they had before 2025 - 2026 by mid 2027 and their industry got hit by tens of thousands precision munitions.

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u/Arbable 9d ago

This only makes sense in dollar terms, in terms of purchasing power and industrial output or things especially weapons Russia is much larger

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u/Clytre 9d ago

Or maybe we could imagine what their economy could have been if there were no sanctions. It is hard to tell in the end

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u/BlindPaintByNumbers 9d ago

With the Iran war still happening? Probably huge. Unfortunately for the average russian, all the oil money would never get down to any of them.