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Vladimir Putin is running Russia’s economy dangerously hot (www.economist.com)

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[–] trajekolus@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

From the article:

Predictions of a Russian economic collapse—made almost uniformly by Western economists and politicians at the start of the war in Ukraine—have proven thumpingly wrong

The cost to Russia of Putin’s imperialism is not collapse, it is the huge loss of lives, and the future economic pain and job losses that will be needed to bring inflation back under control