Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "Can Russia Recover and Win the War? - VisualEconomik EN" video.

  1. Great video. It is proof that you don't have to be a Pollyanna to distrust the data that Moscow chooses to publish. I'm glad to hear another voice pointing out that GDP is an easy statistic to cheat. Most outlets will never admit that governments can just deficit spend their way into "prosperity" by a measure of GDP alone. The Chinese have been doing it to hide slowing economic growth for decades, and most democracies play that game too. I'd love to see a breakdown of Russian trade balances, relative prices of and demand for foreign made capital such as industrial machinery, cost and demand changes of raw material imports, and a lot of other data that Russia is almost certainly blocking. But, much like train loads of cremation urns in Wuhan, there are probably secondary statistics that can suggest how things are actually going in Russia. Russia seems poised to keep its military production high enough to keep a hold of Ukrainian territory (at least for now), but will Gen Z Russians live with vague memories of how their country used to be rich and respected? That is a very different question.
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