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  • rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtftoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Russia’s defence spending to rise by 25% next year, the highest since the cold warEnglish
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    2 months ago

    40% of national expenditure on defence and security is astounding. I’d read previously that the massive defence spending was reshaping the Russian economy, but I had no perception it was that high.

    That sounds like the sort of spending you’d pursue if you were heading toward total war, not merely entrenched in a single ‘special military operation’. I wonder if it indicates that those who suggest that this is just the opening stage of what will end up being a much larger war involving the attempted conquest of other nations might be right.