Let’s hope so. With every passing day this situation is more likely to become a mixture of East Germany and North Korea. Whether the West recognizes eastern Ukraine as Russian or not will be irrelevant. The only “upside” is that Putin’s Russia doesn’t look like it will be able to sustain itself for as long as the Soviet Union could after WW2.
You can inject nationalism into pretty much everything.
yea imagine if 0 was worth 1 all of a sudden
Yea I mean if we’re talking percentage then the (pre-2022) reference point is the size of Spain’s economy. And if it shrunk in 2022 then why shouldn’t it be able to grow by 3% while at war right?
Serious question: How could ANY economy possibly grow when it is spending so much on something that only means death and destruction? The P in GDP stands for something that’s produced. Currently the main product of Russia is annihilation, something that should be pretty hard to sell at a profit. (And the rest would probably mostly be cheap oil and natural gas for those who still trade with Russia.)
By the logic of that graphic (and please bear with me here): If Russia wasn’t currently killing its (former) UA brothers it would be growing even more because all that bloodmoney could be spent on productive things. No? Am I missing something here? Point being that if that was the case, that growth could have been achieved before 2022 and 2014 when there were no external conflicts.
Nobody is doubting the growth potential of “BICS” (if you will), countries which aren’t currently spending heaps on destruction. China is making one hell of a bargain at Russia’s expense too.
But I do envy the person that is able to see potential in a country that needs to contract North Korean soldiers for its war efforts.