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Russian economy is booming, and the World Bank just reclassified Russia as a high income country https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024-2025
The IMF forecasts that Russian economy is set to grow faster than all the western economies https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-forecast-to-grow-faster-than-advanced-economies-in-2024-imf.html
Meanwhile, Nato's Christopher Cavoli says that at the end of the Ukraine war, the Russian military will be stronger than today https://archive.is/2024.10.20-132736/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ukraine-krieg-nato-oberbefehlshaber-cavoli-und-generalinspekteur-breuer-ueber-folgen-und-perspektiven-a-9cb8d225-8bd8-454d-830d-009c9f46dfc9#selection-791.0-791.81
Looks to me that Europe is the only region that's become weak and crippled as a result of this war.
Jesus, Spiegel.
Someone is veeeery joyful about that, I'll say