• Bazell@lemmy.zip
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    21 hours ago

    Interesting analysis. 1T dollars. With this amount of money they could have upgraded their country so much, that some countries in neighborhood would indeed like to join them on a free will. Yet, instead, their limited mindset was only capable of this barbaric/terroristic decision about starting a war…

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      20 hours ago

      Well, commandeering all the money from all bank accounts of people living in the Russia is quite a radical way to fund upgrades for a country. It will cause an unavoidable banking crisis that will destroy the country’s economy.

      But 600 billion did indeed exist in cash and gold in early 2022. That could indeed have been used in the way you describe. But Putin had other plans.