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Iranian lawmaker says Ukraine's drone support makes it a legitimate war target (www.euronews.com)

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The head of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy said that by providing drone support to Israel, Ukraine has “effectively become involved in the war.”

Zelenskyy earlier stated that Kyiv has already deployed interceptor drones and a team of specialists to help protect US military bases in Jordan.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Almost like you guys need to start engaging with reality

Russian economy is booming according to the World Bank which reclassified Russia as a high income country https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024-2025

Meanwhile, the IMF forecasts that Russian economy is set to grow faster than all the western economies https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-forecast-to-grow-faster-than-advanced-economies-in-2024-imf.html

It's almost like you don't understand that the western fascists lost the war of attrition against Russia.

[–] Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world -4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Dude, both of those articles you linked are 2 years old now. 2 years might as well be 2 decades in terms of how quickly things change when a country is at war. You are seriously trying to sell me an article about Russia's GDP growth in 2024 in 2026. You need to refresh your propaganda home screen comrade.

I love your definitive statement at the end to wrap it all up. It's like you've been in a coma for the last 2 years.

It's almost like you don't understand that the western fascists lost the war of attrition against Russia.

Cute...

Now let's talk about Russia's current leaky front line that is happening right now in 2026. Or how about how Ukraine seems to be taking out an air defense system every day now. It's starting to look really bad for Russia out there, beginning of the end hopefully.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Feel free to show that anything is different today. Meanwhile, given what's happening with energy prices even the dimmest libs should be able to realize Russian economy is going to get a boost this year.

Meanwhile, why would we talk about imaginary things that are only happening in your head?

Instead, we can talk about how European economies are collapsing.

[+] Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world -6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Feel free to show that anything is different today

Easy, economic growth dropped from 4.3% in 2024 to 1% in 2025. This is all the more significant because the 2024 GDP was primarily fueled by spending from Russia's now almost depleted sovereign wealth fund. There are no long term economic benefits to spending your wealth on things that blow up. Now the money is gone, $600 billion wasted on this war, not to mention all of the lost economic benefits when Russia chose to cut itself off from the richest half of the world, genius level move here. The Russian public are still enjoying persistent high inflation and high interest rates with businesses closing at an ever increasing rate as Russian banks struggle with the black hole these defaults are causing their balance sheets.

Meanwhile, given what's happening with energy prices even the dimmest libs should be able to realize Russian economy is going to get a boost this year.

Russia's economy has taken a pounding recently with oil prices barely covering the coat to extract, transport and discount. Even with the current high oil prices Russia are still losing money daily, this will just extend Russia's pain and delays the inevitable. I thought dim libs were on the Russian side here, the typical low IQ tankie crowd who use similar talking points to yourself.

Meanwhile, why would we talk about imaginary things that are only happening in your head?

You clearly aren't paying attention to the conflict if you don't understand the trouble Russia is currently in. I follow the Russian milibloggers closely as they actually understand what is going on and they are all going crazy right now. You should probably have a look.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

That's a cool story bro, too bad it falls apart under even the barest scrutiny. First of all, Russian military spending is around 8% of the GDP. Anybody who didn't fail math at school would quickly realize that it can't be the major driver of the economy. Not only that, but being cut off from the west actually stimulated domestic industry revitalizing Russian rust belt. And of course, Russia is a major commodity exporter, the demand for these commodities hasn't magically evaporated. So, none of the factors that were leading to growth of Russian economy in 2024 have changed today.

And of course, there's the elephant in the room which is China. Much of the trade Russia lost with the west has been replaced in the east, largely by China. Anybody with a functioning brain understands that Russia losing the war would be a disastrous outcome for China, and hence if Russia was ever in genuine trouble, then China would simply invest in Russia further to stabilize the economy.

Russia cutting itself off from parasitic west has actually been a great move because now Russia trade with friendly countries, and domestic industry in Russia is finally developing.

Russia’s economy has taken a pounding recently with oil prices barely covering the coat to extract, transport and discount.

Things that definitely happened in the real world and not in your deranged fantasies. 🤣

Russia are still losing money daily

[citation needed]

I follow the Russian milibloggers closely as they actually understand what is going on and they are all going crazy right now

I base my opinions on geopolitics and economics on telegram channels, I'm very intelligent.

Meanwhile, here's what you probably should have a look at. This is what an actual collapsing economy that's overinvested in a war looks like

Maybe stick to subjects you actually have clue on, assuming such subjects actually exist, little dronie.

[–] Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world -5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

First of all, Russian military spending is around 8% of the GDP. Anybody who didn't fail math at school would quickly realize that it can't be the major driver of the economy.

Russian military spending currently accounts for over 40% of all russian government spending. Anybody that didn't fail economics at school would realise that the war is the major driver of the Russian economy. This government spending is also the major driver of Russian inflation. It also sounds as though you are unaware of what is being referred to as Russia's "hidden war debt". Russia has been using commercial bank loans to defence companies to finance the war. This almost doubles the official on the books war spend. https://navigatingrussia.substack.com/p/russias-hidden-war-debt

Thank you for another article from a year ago on how great Russia's economy was doing 12 months ago, do you have anything more recent?

So, none of the factors that were leading to growth of Russian economy in 2024 have changed today.

Then explain to me why all of Russia's growth has evaporated. Someone's either lying or doesn't understand....

China only cares about China, they are not Russia's buddy. They do see Russia as a useful idiot in helping them to weaken the west, same way the USA views Ukraine I suppose. Win or lose Russia is now China's vassal, look at you acting like China is some kind of trump card. Russia was allowed to trade with China before the war too you know, they just chose not to because it is more profitable when you have a large variety of customers. Now Russia just has one large customer who can dictate the terms to Russia as we are seeing play out in the pipeline negotiations.

Russia cutting itself off from parasitic west has actually been a great move because now Russia trade with friendly countries, and domestic industry in Russia is finally developing.

More delusion with no basis in reality, as if cutting yourself off from the richest half of the world will somehow help economically. Lol.

Russia’s economy has taken a pounding recently with oil prices barely covering the coat to extract, transport and discount.

Things that definitely happened in the real world and not in your deranged fantasies. 🤣

Russia are still losing money daily

[citation needed]

You do realise that Russia recorded an official deficit of 2.6% of GDP in 2025 right? That is called losing money Einstein, guess what the prediction for 2026 will be?

I base my opinions on geopolitics and economics on telegram channels, I'm very intelligent.

If you have been following this conflict at all you would be aware that the Russian milibloggers have been the best source of information on how the war is actually going for Russia. You can stick to the Russian state narrative as the victories get closer and closer to Moscow. Russia aren't just winning slowly, they actively lost about 10% of all 2025s gains in the last month.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/11/ukraine-records-first-territorial-gains-since-2023-amid-russian-army-woes

Don't worry about us here in Europe, we will survive on our hamster meat. Quite delicious once you get used to it. The EU grew by 1.5% in 2025, that was better than Russia for all your doomer articles.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 13 hours ago

Anybody that didn’t fail economics at school would realise that the war is the major driver of the Russian economy.

When you're too dumb to tell the difference between government spending and the overall economy. 🤣

It also sounds as though you are unaware of what is being referred to as Russia’s “hidden war debt”. Russia has been using commercial bank loans to defence companies to finance the war.

Oh man, wait till you find out about the scale of military spending in the US.

Then explain to me why all of Russia’s growth has evaporated. Someone’s either lying or doesn’t understand…

It hasn't evaporated, nobody expected Russia to keep growing at 4% a year. Growth has slowed, but it's slowed in the west as well. Last I looked growth in Europe is worse than in Russia, and nobody even knows wtf is going on in the US because they're cooking their numbers. Anybody who isn't lying would obviously mention this fact.

China only cares about China, they are not Russia’s buddy.

Yeah, China cares about China and Russia collapsing would mean the west surrounding China with puppets states on its western border as RAND explained in detail is the whole strategy in Ukraine. Anybody who has a functioning brain would understand why China would not want Russia to collapse economically. But here we are.

Now Russia just has one large customer who can dictate the terms to Russia as we are seeing play out in the pipeline negotiations.

One large customer being all of BRICS. At least put more work into your narrative not to make your lies so obvious. For example, there's this little country called India, go look it up. 🤣

More delusion with no basis in reality, as if cutting yourself off from the richest half of the world will somehow help economically. Lol.

Amazing counterpoint dronie.

You do realise that Russia recorded an official deficit of 2.6% of GDP in 2025 right? That is called losing money Einstein, guess what the prediction for 2026 will be?

Oh wow, official deficit of 2.6% of GDP. That sounds terrible!! Remind me what that's like for western countries again Einstein. 🤡

If you have been following this conflict at all you would be aware that the Russian milibloggers have been the best source of information on how the war is actually going for Russia

If you have been following this conflict at all then you would be aware that Russian milibloggers are the biggest drama queens around. The fact that you take everything they write uncritically shows that you're utterly incapable of critical thinking.

Russia aren’t just winning slowly, they actively lost about 10% of all 2025s gains in the last month.

Oh you're seriously dumb enough to think war of attrition is about territorial gains. 🤣

Don’t worry about us here in Europe, we will survive on our hamster meat. Quite delicious once you get used to it. The EU grew by 1.5% in 2025, that was better than Russia for all your doomer articles.

The EU is on the verge of economic collapse, but hey let's ignore all the mainstream western media. The dronie here has good vibes. 🤣

You're the most coddled people on this planet. You've never known any real hardship since the end of the second world war. Meanwhile, Russians survived the 90s and are still here. If you think you'll outlast Russians when it comes to hardship, prepare to be very surprised in the near future.