ahead of Germany and Japan. Using PPP GDP measure.
a more detailed, but biased, article https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/no_author/russian-economy-zooms-ahead-outpaces-us-and-eu-growth/
There is more likely to be a collapse on the west from supporting a Ukraine war. There is zero resonance of "NATO is a purely defensive alliance" propaganda meant to be a friend to the world or to Russia inside of Russia. It is fully understood as an existential threat in Russia, while it is a casual inconvenience to those who trust western media in the west. A deep concern for the world/west is that Russia's extreme growth in military production means that we will soon be asked to boost competing military production and compromise our own sustainability and leisure.
Yeah, but it's a house of cards. Infrastructure, education and other key social programs have been stripped bare to keep the house afloat.
If they can keep it up long enough to win it may not collapse....that's a big if, especially if they're bringing in N. Korean fodder.
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That sounds more like the increasingly neoliberalized imperial core than anywhere else.