cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/44689755
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According to a report by Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, a significant portion of these expenditures is hidden: 59% of the military budget is undisclosed. During the first three quarters of 2025, spending under “open” budget items amounted to RUB 4.816 trillion, while “closed” items totaled RUB 7.038 trillion. On a year-on-year basis, the classified portion of expenditures increased by 39%.
“The Kremlin is shifting the burden of financing the war onto the population through new taxes and rising prices. Under conditions where any anti-war criticism is punished as ‘treason’, space for public discontent has virtually disappeared. As a result, from 2022 to 2025 prices for Russians rose continuously,” the intelligence service noted.
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Fuel prices increased by 29–35%, and this trend is expected to continue in 2026. Real estate prices in Russia rose by 50% between 2022 and 2025; in 2026, a further increase of 6–7% is expected, while in Moscow specifically prices may rise by up to 20%.
The most sensitive increase has been in food prices: dairy products rose by 62%, and meat by 41%. Forecasts for 2026 predict further price increases of tens of percent.
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Tankies be like: “This is a great use of taxpayer dollars and its going to a good cause that’s sure to benefit the working class!”
Tankies continue to support Russia and China even though they are no longer communist (Russia definitively isn’t, and what China has is not exactly communism either).
This is because they never cared about communism they are just angry West totalitarians.
Tankies, supposedly antifascists, support fascist regimes in China and Russia. It’s like they haven’t opened their eyes in the last several decades and are stuck back in the cold war.
China is just state capitalism.
Consider of all the washing machines that have been “found”!
Already packed and wrapped in a brick building. Ukraine is just great!!
Honest question, where do you see those tankies? Why talk about them here?
Mostly at the instances that end in .ml
Kinda inconsiderate to spread their insanities here.
They literally develop Lemmy, so in this specific case I think it’s good to spread awareness.
Interesting. Where do the main the developers state their support for Russia? I have read this before but I yet to see any proof
If they kept to themselves and didn’t pretend to be general-purpose instances, sure
This is the answer
War is a great driver of jobs for the less fortunate. It’s nice of the government to give them that opportunity, and pay them as well!
Edit: Another /s that I should have included, because MAGAs are stupid enough to seriously say something like that.
What a naive, sociopathic take.
It is, but it’s not MY take, I was just pointing out the idiocy of MAGA, who could be easily persuaded to believe and repeat that nonsense.
I recognize your /s, but for the uninitiated this is called the parable of the broken window and is still a very common misconception.
So is construction and community building. Better even.
I agree.