The Real Cost of Russia's War: Tax Hikes, Healthcare Crisis, and Economic Turmoil - The Gaze

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The Kremlin has increased budget expenditures by 5 trillion roubles. Over the past five years, the Russian budget has doubled in nominal terms. Almost a third of the state treasury in 2024 will be spent on Russia's war against Ukraine. But the financing of aggression comes from other sources as well. So it is difficult to establish the exact amount of expenditures for Russia's war against Ukraine. Where Kremlin gets the money for war and how such spendings affect Russians - watch in our news story.

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1. We won the cold war by compelling the USSR to try to match the level of spending the US does for defense ...

... we should be sending every kind of weapon - short of nuclear - to Ukraine. Russian cannot afford to fight against what we could be doing.