FILE - Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, front right, speaks to Russian military members during his visit at a military training range in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sept. 15, 2023. (Pool Sputnik via AP)
VOA: Russian Military Will Get Lion's Share from Kremlin's Robust Budget
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a national budget for the next three years that increases spending by around 25% and reportedly devotes a robust amount to defense as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on.
The budget foresees spending in 2024 of $415 billion with an expected deficit of $9.5 billion.
After the budget was passed by the lower house of the parliament, Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said it was developed specifically to fund the military and to mitigate the impact of international sanctions imposed on Russia after its Ukraine invasion in February 2022.
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WNU Editor: This is definitely a war time budget.
Russian Defense Spending Set To Increase By Almost 70% In 2024 From 2023
Putin signs Russia’s largest national budget, bolstering military spending -- AP
Putin Approves Big Military Spending Hikes for Russia's Budget -- Reuters
Russia approves record spend for military in new budget -- Africa News
So we’ll have to dump what, 300 billion, 400 billion into Ukraine next year to make up the difference? Say what you want, but just remember what country your typing your comment from and how facking stupid and compromised your own government is. Russias military has come a long way since the beginning of this war and we essentially gained nothing from it.
ReplyDeleteRussian man jailed for writing 'No to War' in snow
ReplyDeleteA Russian court has sentenced a man to 10 days in prison after he used his finger to write "No to War" in snow.
Dmitry Fyodorov was found to have written the note on a snow-covered turnstile at the entrance to an ice-skating rink at Moscow's Gorky Park on 23 November.
Police who detained him decided his actions could amount to a civil offence under a law which targets anyone deemed to have acted publicly to discredit Russia's armed forces.
Mr Fyodorov, who admitted in court that he'd written the anti-war slogan, was handed 10 days in jail for disobeying the police and allegedly refusing to go to a police station, something he denied. ///
RIP. That man has gotta avoid third story windows for the rest of his life.
You should see what happens in British Columbia if you misgender your child.
DeleteAnd don’t forget that despite Russias losses, they gained over five million new citizens along with their economies and some of the most fertile soil the planet has to offer. I wonder what North Korea will be willing to do for Russia if they can be fed.
ReplyDelete40% to 50% of the new people were ethnic Ukrainian or ethnic Tatar.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the mobiks are from the Donbas. They are being chewed up by Putin's lust for war.
This what happens when Biden dicks around in providing aid.
This is what happens when the Ukraine thug life posse sucks the money up like a vacuum cleaner.
ReplyDeletemaybe zman will open his tight fisted wallet, sell both those yachts, and get 10 more brigades funded.
Daily Mail: COP28 will be an Oil and Gas Contract Bazaar
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine a more hilariously ignoble end to the great push to green the global economy, than for the centrepiece of the green movement to transform into a giant oil and gas market?
The UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber used climate talks to bag oil and gas deals: report
He controversially heads both the UN’s climate meet and the UAE’s main oil firm
Liberals are such morons.
Stagecoach driver WNU has his FSB peeps riding shotgun again.
ReplyDeleteStagecoach or clown car?
we have a stagecoach. You will always be in a clown car. ask zman for some blow while you are there.
ReplyDeleteAre you being paid to post all this stupid shit or what? You literally have no life
Deletekeeping you straight, numb nuts
ReplyDeleteNo life? Says the guy who literally checks up on all my posts and those of others.
ReplyDeleteCongress is said to be gutless. They have resolutions but do not declare war.
ReplyDeleteWell now they have company in the person of Putin.
Think about this for a moment. Russia went from a Special Military Operation (SMO) to war footing inside of 2 years without a declaration of war.
The SMO was the camel getting his nose under the tent.
While that is true, it's important to remember that the Soviet Union had total fertility rates of 4-6 in the decades before the war and was in the middle of a population boom. That certainly isn't true for modern Russia.
ReplyDeletewe're talking about the flower or Russian youth.
Its not just a florid saying.
The people dying on this stupid battlefield are the people who would be running Russia in 20 years.
I hear you but most of the young men that are being drafted and dying now are from the boonies, not Moscow or St. Pete.
Russia is sending poor young men to die for the rich folks in Moscow.
unfortunately talent doesn't discriminate by geography.
I know their current meritocracy is a steaming pile of shit, but a generation from now things may be different. They're nuking their future.
At least they have some young people left, unlike Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteremember the Ukrainian new conscript guys In that auditorium with the singer 2 days ago.
. Not one under 50.
And I agree and who benefits from the slavs killing each other? Certainly not Russia or Ukraine.
No one told Putin to invade. She did that all by herself.
ReplyDeleteJust like Grenada, Panama and syria
ReplyDeleteAll by ourselves
Panama and Grenada was not incorporated into the US. They elect their own government officials. They lost no territory. They paid no indemnity.
ReplyDeleteGrenada so the Revolution shoot their own revolutionaries.
Panama was ran by a general who came to power under murky circumstances. Probably murdered the president. He was also in bed with narco cartels.
Assad is a dictator, who had mass arrests of Sunni protester and subsequently tortured and murdered thousands of them. He also aid and supported people fighting the US.
Now you are finally getting into specifics , after 12 months of MSM "Russia invaded" simplistic stupidity you are finally coming around.
ReplyDeleteSo lets see then, I guess the Russia's invaded the Ukraine because the just got up one day and said...
Comrade, let's start war!!
or where there other reasons?
And as far as Panama, and Grenada , do they not have the right to conduct their own affairs as they see fit and choose their allies as they may?
And even if you say they do not. What gives the United States the right to invade them? Does Argentina,Peru, Cuba or even South Africa have the same right? And how about China, Russia and Israel?
“Russia’s attempts to blame others for its own choices are transparent,” said Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who was speaking when Lavrov walked out.
ReplyDelete“We will not compromise on the core principles of the European security order or allow Russia to deny Ukraine
"the right to make its own independent foreign and security policy choices –"
Really?
What about the invasions by the USA of Panama, Grenada, Dominican Republic and Syria?