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

The government are the biggest spenders in the economy, 40% of government spending going on war is a significant economic driver. If you do not understand this simple fact your teachers and parents should be ashamed of you. This is before we get into the off the books spending on the war, commercial banks being forced to lend to defencs companies that is unlikely to be repaid. This would double Russia's war spend to closer to the 15% of GDP that brought down the soviet union. I don't care about the USA and hope they go bust just like Russia.

Last I looked growth in Europe is worse than in Russia

Incorrect again, Russian growth 2025 was 1%, the EU which is 10 times the size of Russia's economy grew at 1.5% despite further weaning off cheap Russian oil.

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.

Hilarious hypocrisy coming from a Russian supporter. Russia has not released their real financials since the war began, we can only estimate from the limited data we have because they are obscuring the real situation. The USA has always had the most detailed published financial figures, this transparency is a reason they have the biggest economy. Under trump they have started hiding the jobs figures but not much else.

Anybody who isn't lying would obviously mention this fact.

Then why didn't you mention Russian obfuscation? By your own standards you must by lying then!

Anybody who has a functioning brain would understand why China would not want Russia to collapse economically.

I can't believe you are quoting Rand, the dumbest of all the think-tanks. Do a little bit of research on them before using them as a source, makes you look quite uneducated. Rand and yourself clearly do not understand China's goals and motivations. I fortunately have Chinese family and a foot in that world so I can educate you. China thinks Russia was stupid to start the war with Europe especially since they left 300 billion in EU control when going to war with them. Without China's support Russia would have lost the war a long time ago. China is giving Russia enough support to keep going but not enough to win the war. A long war causes more damage to Russia and pushes them deeper under China's thumb as a vassal state. China still wants Manchuria back, look at how few Russians live in the area and how many Chinese live both over the border and over the Russian side. What is to stop China taking the land to protect the ethnic Chinese living there? This process has already begun.

One large customer being all of BRICS

Brics is a Mickey mouse organisation, how much oil has India bought from Russia since the secondary sanctions kicked in recently? India are exploring the cheap Russian oil when it suits them and making bank off Russia's resources. They then leave Russia high and dry when the going gets tough, great friends!

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

It's like talking to a small child who doesn't understand, the emojis really add to this impression. Western countries can borrow to fund deficits, nobody has been willing to lend to Russia since the war started despite Russia offering huge returns. Russia needs to find deficits from its rapidly diminishing sovereign wealth fund. Even China will not lend to Russia as the anticipated a default.

If you have been following this conflict at all then you would be aware that Russian milibloggers are the biggest drama queens around.

They have given us the only view inside the Russian war machine other than the state narrative. You can believe the state of you like or vibes or whatever, I will continue to trust the best source of inside information we have, typically from the troops themselves.

There is no war in Ba Sing Se, keep feeding me delicious propaganda daddy Putin, eat it up good, yum yum. Let's talk about the mobile internet blackouts in Moscow the last 2 weeks, this does not sound like winning to me. Sounds like daddy Putin is afraid of a coup.

You can continue to enjoy the hardship you are so great at tolerating. Life in Europe has not changed one bit, nobody even talks about the war in Ukraine, not now, barely even in 2022. It's big news for you guys though as you endure hardships that we don't even notice. Martyrs for nothing, lol.