Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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shavenferret said:

Russia is on pace to run out of financial reserves by this fall, which would cripple war efforts, economist says

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-wealth-fund-reserves-ukraine-war-moscow-inflation-stagflation-2025-1

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The whole assumption of the article is that Russia is running a massive budget deficit in order to finance the war and is paying for it with its cash reserves. But these are expect to run out at the end of this year. Between this, and the vehicles that everyone says russia is running out of, it becomes clear that Russia cannot stay in the game for much longer. It would seem like a good idea for zelensky to hold out as long as possible for talks on ending the war, or he'll have to give up land while Russia is still able to fight.

That would really put Putin between a rock and a hard place, as Russia is now fully geared towards a war economy and the production of military equipment, so slowing this down would also crash the economy. Which means then that Russia soon doesn't have the funds anymore to continue his war of aggression, but his economy can't survive not to continue this war.