Russian Economy running on empty

[3NUMBAS]

Russia's war-fueled economy is running on empty, Central Bank chief warns

 

doomed but Vlad is stubborn

 

https://kyivindependent.com/russias-war-fueled-economy-is-running-on-empty-central-bank-chief-warns/

 

[tomazbodner]

Can't imagine they'd be happy to see this face in the photo of the "leaders of NATO countries" either...

 

[3NUMBAS]

New aircraft production is minimal due to lack of workers and scarcity of western components which they can’t source

[Harsh Jones]

Literally everything this guy posts about Russia is delusional fantasy and wishcasting. Let's use a pro Western source. 

 

Wikipedia shows Russia is 5th in the world in foreign exchange reserves for one thing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-exchange_reserves

[Harsh Jones]

Gold reserves by country reported in 2025. Russia is 5th in the world with 2300 tons. 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve

 

Trade surplus by country , 2025. Russia is 6th in the world 

 

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-10-countries-with-the-largest-trade-surplus/

[CallumWK]

On 6/25/2025 at 11:13 PM, tomazbodner said:

Can't imagine they'd be happy to see this face in the photo of the "leaders of NATO countries" either...

 

 

I recognise the one in blue with Elephantiasis, but is the one your circled Zelenskyy?

[tomazbodner]

28 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

I recognise the one in blue with Elephantiasis, but is the one your circled Zelenskyy?

I did because that was a NATO summit. US, AFAIK, is a member of NATO. Ukraine certainly is not. And Zelensky in the group photo of leaders of NATO countries might send a sublime message to Putin he would not really appreciate.

[Harsh Jones]

I'm not sure why soemone is posting laugh emojis. Do you think the facts that I posted are not true? Do you think Russia is not 5th in FX and gold reserves ? Or 6th in trade surplus for 2023? If so, post your counter argument. How much FX does Russia have ?

 

Here's another one. Billionaires per country. Where does Russia stand ?

5th place. Which is in line with the other economic data 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_billionaires

 

And another one. Oil consumption by country. Russia is 6th. Again , inline with the rest of the data. You should be noticing a pattern. The crazy thing is , a lot of Western politicians who vote on matters of the Ukraine war , don't know any of this stuff either. They probably think Russia is 20th in most of these categories. 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_consumption

[candide]

27 minutes ago, Harsh Jones said:

I'm not sure why soemone is posting laugh emojis. Do you think the facts that I posted are not true? Do you think Russia is not 5th in FX and gold reserves ? Or 6th in trade surplus for 2023? If so, post your counter argument. How much FX does Russia have ?

 

Here's another one. Billionaires per country. Where does Russia stand ?

5th place. Which is in line with the other economic data 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_billionaires

 

And another one. Oil consumption by country. Russia is 6th. Again , inline with the rest of the data. You should be noticing a pattern. The crazy thing is , a lot of Western politicians who vote on matters of the Ukraine war , don't know any of this stuff either. They probably think Russia is 20th in most of these categories. 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_consumption

Provided Russian statistics could be trusted....

 

https://en.thebell.io/can-we-trust-russian-economic-statistics/

 

https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2023-05-24/credibility-russian-economic-statistics-a-growing-problem

[Harsh Jones]

1 hour ago, candide said:

Provided Russian statistics could be trusted....

 

https://en.thebell.io/can-we-trust-russian-economic-statistics/

 

https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2023-05-24/credibility-russian-economic-statistics-a-growing-problem

 

But what I posted was not Russian economic statistics. Oil consumption by country is an international metric from an international market. 

 

And again , Russia is the 6th biggest oil consumer in the world. And if it was just about population , Indonesia should be higher on the list. But it isn't 

 

[candide]

11 hours ago, Harsh Jones said:

 

But what I posted was not Russian economic statistics. Oil consumption by country is an international metric from an international market. 

 

And again , Russia is the 6th biggest oil consumer in the world. And if it was just about population , Indonesia should be higher on the list. But it isn't 

 

I don't know about oil consumption, but numbers about gdp, trade  etc... are provided by Russia.