Four years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian economy is showing clear signs of structural exhaustion. The contours of a genuine economic endgame are coming into view for Russia. This is the finding of a new Kiel Report published by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics.
May I remind you of your first comment on this thread?
And again, I’m not just asking questions and I never claimed that. Questions are a normal part of life, get used to it.
You know the end goal is to stop the war. That hasn’t happened. I’m asking you questions because you’re dancing around that disingenuously. The end goal cannot be to continue the war but at a lower pace and you know it.
Cruise missile attacks are dropping because they’re much easier to take down than ballistic missiles.
And you’re making it (again, disingenuously) seem like I said the sanctions aren’t having any effects. That is not what I said and you also know it. I said that despite the sanctions they are still ramping up ballistic missile attacks. So the message that they have hit their war economy limits is false. Since once you hit your limit –that’s what a limit means– you can’t continue.
They have not stopped, ergo they have not reached the limit.
Really? You can’t even read the headline of the article this thread is under. How am I supposed to take you seriously?
Here are a whole bunch of people claiming exactly that:
https://www.russiamatters.org/node/35164
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/russia-economy-worsens-current-account-ruble-energy-exports-2023-7
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/09/fortress-russia-economy-has-adapted-well-pressure-stagflation-presents-opportunity-west
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/06/the-russian-economy-is-finally-stagnating-what-does-it-mean-for-the-war-and-for-putin
I’m beginning to think you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about…
Not the comment you initially replied to, is it? Disingenuous #3
But good talk my man. Keep it up and nobody will ever want to talk to you.
No they don’t, have you even read those articles?
They make claims that are completely factual.
The original comment I replied to had a quote of Von der Leyen that you implied was making claims it didn’t.
And you keep implying that sanctions aren’t having the effect of bringing that end sooner, which they do.
You cannot possibly know if they’ve hit their limits because you can’t see the future. So you cannot say that this message is false.
You keep saying that people have made that claim before, and it was false then, so it must be false now. But as your own sources show, nobody made this claim before.
I have, have you? And here I was thinking asking questions was illegal.
Yes. So not a question. Thank you. You started out by asking question and then get mad when someone asks a question in return that you can’t and won’t answer.
Citation needed. The point is they have never proven to end wars sooner.
I said I will believe it when I see it. I have not seen the war ending because of the economy. Ergo: limit not yet hit. I don’t get why this is so hard for you.
Only to someone who can’t read…
Quote from the first article you posted
So no, it’s not saying that the economy has reached its limits, who you have not “heard it before”
it supports the opposite of the point you’re trying to make.
Funny, you must really be blind or illiterate, because you read right past:
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Funny how that works. And you wonder why people ask you questions to check your knowledge about a certain topic…
In my initial comment a few days ago, if you can even think that far back (idk, it seems like you might not) I said I will believe it when I see whether or not the Russian economy is actually at its limits. The article supports that. People keep saying it is
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But it wasn’t. And now:
So I said I will believe it when I see it. And I will, but I haven’t seen it. That’s all.
And none of those said that Russia’s economy had reached its limits, as you claim.
“looking ahead”
“in time”
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That one just says that the car industry is falling apart, which was true and the auto industry is now pretty much dead.
A Russian businessman worried about his wealth, really?
So the article you linked doesn’t say what you think it says and links to articles cherry picking quotes to pretend they are saying something they don’t.
But yeah, it’s becoming clear why you think you’ve been hearing that Russia’s economy has hit its limits because you’re actively sectively reading stuff to pretend that’s what people are saying.
LOL you really don’t handle being wrong very well, do you?
None of the sources you quoted say what you claim they do and I’m wrong?
Just go away.
In your extremely biased mind where a parallel reality exists they indeed didn’t claim what they claimed.
Good boy