The editor of that article must have gone to the same school as OAK
Brad Sauder
24 February, 2023
This article is very misleading. It states "Russia's military expenditures continue to rise rapidly and are estimated to already have surpassed $9 trillion in spending." When the $ sign is used it should represent US$, but the costs to Russia are estimated at 9 trillion rubles, not dollars; big difference.
Andy Machala
24 February, 2023
Evidently the editors at Newsweek do not know basic math.
LOL!!!
Great post, Flexacon!
OAK thinks Russia has spent over FOUR YEARS of its ENTIRE ECONOMIC OUTPUT on this war so far.
Literally, every last Ruble of every Russian man, woman, and working-aged child would have to be spent for over four years to add up to $9 trillion USD, lol.
Russia's military budget is $48 billion USD per year. It may have perhaps spent DOUBLE that, and have been closer to $100 billion in the past 12 months, but it did NOT increase by 187.5 TIMES to hit $9 trillion.
And the lies just go on and on...apparently the Ukrainian Defense Minister announced that only 17,000 Ukrainian soldiers died. So the personnel with boots on the ground RESPONSIBLE for counting the dead is just reporting that number back, in a massive loop of bullshit and lies going all the way to the top! Look at screenshots below of videos of Ukrainian soldier graveyards - they all died in this conflict, and there are HUNDREDS more videos like that.
And that's why people don't understand how serious this is.
NATO's military budget is $1 trillion USD per year. And Russia with its paltry $48 billion USD [or maybe double that, max] is by all measures, winning this war, and gaining ground into Eastern Ukraine by the day.
Ukrainian soldier graves: