Russia's War Economy: A House of Cards Built on Oil and Deception Russia's economy has defied expectations, but a closer look reveals a complex web of economic manipulation and military spending that threatens to unravel.
Beneath the façade of slow growth and increasing oil revenues lies a two tier system, where those employed by defense industries are shielded from inflation and economic contraction, while ordinary citizens struggle.
The recent uptick in growth rates is attributed to government subsidies and industrial military complex spending, but this masks deeper structural problems that cannot be solved through bookkeeping acrobatics.