Doctor Love
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I was referring to the standard infantryman starting out at around 200k. And to read that correctly - that's nearly four million per month? Like, that guy has racked up £750,000 since the war started?
Information security, combating information manipulation and propaganda
1. The Participants recognise that the Russian Federation continues to manipulate information in support of its war on Ukraine and will seek to continue to mutually support each other’s efforts to tell the truth well. To counter Russian information manipulation and propaganda globally, the UK and Ukraine will:
1. The Participants recognise that the Russian Federation continues to manipulate information in support of its war on Ukraine and will seek to continue to mutually support each other’s efforts to tell the truth well. To counter Russian information manipulation and propaganda globally, the UK and Ukraine will:
- collaborate to improve Ukraine's capabilities to counter information security threats, primarily Russian propaganda;
- work together with like-minded partners to communicate effectively at an international level, offering the world a truthful alternative to the Russian Federation’s disinformation campaigns;
- co-ordinate on closer collaboration of communications output to counter disinformation; and
- promote the development of joint educational and training programmes for information security professionals, including improving the level of English language proficiency in this area, regular exchange of experience and professional events involving information security professionals.
Rishi Sunak bravely ventures to Ukraine, promising to increase his efforts to cover up his own failures.
I think they've worked that well, to their advantage.
It seems like they have actually spent the lion's share of their military spending on wages - that's how they kept the numbers high up. And conversely, because those soldiers will not emigrate - that money stays within the Russian economy. While we, and the Ukrainians, are wasting massive amounts of money - the Russians are using their military spending as economic stimulus.
So when Ukraine is dragging men off the street and forcing them into battle, the Russians are eagerly volunteering for the enormous pay increase. And when that money is invested back into their local communities, it ends up being spent on solid, real assets. Houses, starting new businesses, a well-distributed modification across the entire Federation.
Each Russian death backfires - they give $100,000 plus a monthly bonus to the families and widows. Each Russian death is another house being built, and another business being opened.
While everyone has had massive inflation, Russia has had an enormous wage growth too. They seem to have redirected that money into the "bottom" while ours ended up gathering at the top. The inertia of money within different economic areas changes, so their military spending has been, with a handful of limited exceptions, a high-velocity positive spiral through their entire society. A little bit like fractional reserve banking, except the inverse - rather than multiplying the money, it multiplies the value produced by each ruble.
That is only temporary - the ruble has a "diminished value" abroad, and being reinvested into Russian industry and infrastructure development at "true value" - leading to a "miniaturised economy" which is fully functioning, seemingly capable of sustained growth outside of the war. On average, measured in rubles, the economy seems to have gone up universally, ranging from 20% or so for construction, 66% for vehicle production, electronics by 40% - the article comments that Russia "needs to be at war" for this to continue, but in reality, they could maintain that status with a good treaty with China and/or the EU. Their minimum wage jumped up by nearly 20% this year!
So when Ukraine is dragging men off the street and forcing them into battle, the Russians are eagerly volunteering for the enormous pay increase. And when that money is invested back into their local communities, it ends up being spent on solid, real assets. Houses, starting new businesses, a well-distributed modification across the entire Federation.
Each Russian death backfires - they give $100,000 plus a monthly bonus to the families and widows. Each Russian death is another house being built, and another business being opened.
While everyone has had massive inflation, Russia has had an enormous wage growth too. They seem to have redirected that money into the "bottom" while ours ended up gathering at the top. The inertia of money within different economic areas changes, so their military spending has been, with a handful of limited exceptions, a high-velocity positive spiral through their entire society. A little bit like fractional reserve banking, except the inverse - rather than multiplying the money, it multiplies the value produced by each ruble.
That is only temporary - the ruble has a "diminished value" abroad, and being reinvested into Russian industry and infrastructure development at "true value" - leading to a "miniaturised economy" which is fully functioning, seemingly capable of sustained growth outside of the war. On average, measured in rubles, the economy seems to have gone up universally, ranging from 20% or so for construction, 66% for vehicle production, electronics by 40% - the article comments that Russia "needs to be at war" for this to continue, but in reality, they could maintain that status with a good treaty with China and/or the EU. Their minimum wage jumped up by nearly 20% this year!
Russia is now an economic bomb. Once the war ends, it will climb up to a top-5 spot
From my ruthless, obsessive search for information - I also have no idea. They have no need to, since they've already won.
I'd say, the second that Ukraine surrenders - the UK's economy will fucking collapse. Hence, Sunak scurrying over there to beg them to keep fighting.
