4 pointsby toomuchtodo6 hours ago6 comments
  • mamonster2 hours ago
    >Oil rent came from outside the system; foreigners paid for a tradable asset, and the money circulated through the economy with real multiplier effects. Military rent is internal redistribution towards assets designed for destruction. The body is metabolising its own muscle tissue for energy.

    Once Russian drone industry enters the export market they will blow out almost every competitor in any market not named Europe and US.

    Russia now can export drones (Geran lineup) that can reliably overwhelm any current anti-air network + can offer expertise in constructing local production (Elabuga-like) + can offer drone pilot training and drone-aware tactics.

    The only other country with this expertise is Ukraine (except for setting up production, they have too much cottage industry stuff going on) but outside of Europe/US most countries (especially African ones) will go with Russia as a supplier.

  • ksaj3 hours ago
    We've been hearing for years that Putin is on his deathbed, too. It seems there are a lot of people guessing and writing articles about what they're guessing.
  • verdverm6 hours ago
    Perun has a recent video on the economic outlook for 2026 for both Ukraine (slava) and Ruzzia (pls stop)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8n1I41PL-k

    • drysinean hour ago
      >Ukraine (slava)

      "Slava Ukraine" (Glory to the Ukraine) is the slogan used by the Ukrainian nationalists who collaborated with Nazis and mass-murdered Poles and Jews.

      "In the 1930s, it became widespread as a slogan of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), as well as Ukrainian diaspora groups and refugee communities in the West during the Cold War. ... Its use was revived again during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Russo-Ukrainian War, during which it became a widely popular symbol in Ukraine."[0]

      [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Ukraini

      • verdverm8 minutes ago
        Are you a russian troll?

        Your first point is unsubstantiated by the link. You pick two points in history for a phrase that dates back a 100 years before WW2.

  • KetoManx645 hours ago
    Does anyone still take The Economist seriously about any sort of economic predictions?
    • pestatije4 hours ago
      this a guest opinion...i wonder though about who gets to be published
  • CamperBob25 hours ago
    Failed state with 5000 nukes = the rest of the world has to support them.

    This has been Putin's plan all along. He looks at Kim Jong Un with envy.