She is lying

⁠@@megthornton1371how do we know you are not lying?

@@megthornton1371 If you know better, and are known to be better informed, how come you are not being interviewed ?

​@@megthornton1371And you are a pathetic troll.

The Russian military complex isn’t producing anything. They’re refurbishing antique Soviet stockpiles.

only if there is somthing to spend the money on

As long China is willing to deliver consumer goods 😊

Your comments are ridiculous. Have you been in Russia and examined what is going on there? You haven't, so Jeep your mouth shut.

Lol.. you seem living in a different universe

Yes and no. Putin fears revolt. He fears his own people more than anything else. That's why he's done absolutely everything to severely limit forced conscription. I think you may be right, but only if he can convince Russians it's all the west's fault.

Nothing compared to the economic pain that Biden is putting on Americans.

RUSSIA is really feeling this ECONOMICAL war alright.Why last week,THE WORLD BANK announced that Russia is now the 4th largest economy,of the world surpassing that of Japan.I can immagine the pain,after hoping to occupy the 2nd position.What a lot of pain.

@@petehowett2854 Where do you get this nonsense? I'm genuinely curious. The most trivial of Google searches tells us it's a lie.

@@petehowett2854 Source? Something other than one of your bodily orifices pls.

Uh uh uh uh. Not informative at all lol. It was blah blah blah. She kept repeating the samething over and over again. Russia is doin fine economically. Militarily it is good. Brics will destroy the west.

Do you mean the people of Gaza? I mean, they are certainly suffering, as I understand it, but it doesn't seem like they are being killed off or destroyed as a people. Indeed after the war is over and things settle down, it appears as though they will receive considerable aid and help rebuilding. They will maintain then their cultural identity and their Muslim faith, and soon begin growing again in number -- so where is the genocide?

@@polarvortex3294 What does Gaza have to do with the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Nothing!

Do you mean the Russian genocide in Bucha and Irpin?

@@michaelkatz275 Well you said genocide, and the only genocide is happening in Gaza, with Western support.

Imagine bombing millions in other countries 😂 and asking favor for Ukraine from same countries , West🤡

Unsustainable for west. Russia is doing fine.

Left, died or work for the war machine. Putin can pay them whatever they want, but they won't be able to buy anything with the money. Many old people here in Austria kept praising Hitler for giving them work when they were starving. They will pay eventually.

and they have a huge amount of people in the Army.

And with so many young men having died or been seriously injured in Ukraine, this will definitely hurt the economy and labour market in Russia...

Don't forget that there is no replacement. Russians don't have enough children

Well, Russia is in demographic crisis, the country litterally lacked millions of inhabitants even before war started so it make sens that unemployment is not a major issue, they deseperatly need people, nothing new. People think that the fall of the Berlin wall was the event that lead to the biggest emigration trend from Russia but few know that from 2009 to 2019 Russia lost on average 1 million inhabitants every single year. Russians do not feel safe in their country, they emigrate to seek better life as soon as they can but not everybody can, this war increased that trend even more. If you are a russian engineer there is no benefit to stay in russia, if you emigrate you will more than double your pay and greatly increase you lifestyle, being able to pay private school for your kids this kind of stuff while in Russia right now it is not really the ideal place to have kids.

Raised tax shows how it goes!,,

A country can only prop up their GDP by squandering its savings manufacturing weapons for a pointless war for so long. Eventually its savings run out.

hahahahahahahahahaha

It looks like you know nothing about Russian mentality and Russian economy. High inflation and high interest rates? Russians are used to living in the environment with high inflation. Even during all Soviet era inflation was relatively high. Less than five percent households have mortgages. Therefore high interest rates are not a problem. Higher personal taxes? They are just moving from a flat scale taxation to a progressive taxation. Finally most of Russians understand that this is an existential war for the country. They will fight for as long as it takes to win the war.

@@dmitrye3212 Oh, well then you love it and the new higher taxes too...well good cuz it will keep happening.

@@dmitrye3212 mentality is well and good, but you still have to pay for weapons and parts.

Winning? By what metric. Map looks like a stalemate for the past year. Compare the economy of a typical Russian "ally" to any nation in NATO and they come up short. Poland is a powerhouse compared to Belarus. NK cannot even build reliable weaponry and is regarded as one of the most backward nations on earth. Vietnam actually has more connections with the West as a hedge against China (who has cut off most of their river water and replaced it with pollution). Any nation could have nuclear weapons. Most choose not to. Making a bomb is 1942 technology (first criticality experiment). 1942. Let that sink in. No computers. No calculators. No transistors even. 1942. Someone among Iran's scientists is giving the mullahs just enough success and keeping them from having a working bomb. They have the fuel, assembly is nothing.

What proxy war? Do you not see the other NATO nations supplying Ukraine. What an asinine statement! More Russian propaganda. This war is Russia invading a sovereign nation, Ukraine. No more, no less. Should we consider this a proxy war with China, North Korea and Iran supplying armaments?

Naive? Make no mistake .. Russia is the junior partner. If China demanded that Russia stops the war tomorrow, Putin would “do his duty” and pull back all troops. He NEEDS China. You think Putin visit to North Korea wasn’t first approved by Xi? You think weapons sales by North Korea wasn’t approved by Xi? Give your head a shake! Nothing happens in North Korea without China’s approval first.

considering putin is printing roubles now to finance his war with is budget in deficit and inflation rising, the only way to fix this is cut the big expenses. cant spend your way out by printing roubles to finance the war as it doesnt bring back tax revenue to the russian economy for the capital expediture. only results in high inflation turning into hyperinflation as time goes on.

A country can only prop up their GDP by squandering its savings manufacturing weapons for a pointless war for so long. Eventually its savings run out.

That question is unanswerable, this discussion is about the mechanizations of finances and the financial situation on a ground level in russia.

@@j.k.cascade2057 My be right. However there are some hints. Until now I used to say "at least 10 more years". After hearing what Mrs. Prokopenko has to say, I would slightly change that to "at least 15 to 20 more years".

She is an economist, so she can't answer questions like those.

>What about the dead Russians? Well, Mediazone could only account for 54,000 dead Russian searching obituaries, new graves etc >What about the millions of Russians that left? All liberals, and good riddance. A lot of them started to come back. >What about the convicts released into society after service? Ukraine also released prisoners during the war. I would be worried about that.

Dead people do not need pensions paid. However, dead young Russians also will not be fathers to kids. This said, there are people who predict Russia will be facing continued decline of population even if the war has ended. The Russians that left will very unlikely come back, unless there will be a major Amnesty, out of fear to be prosecuted of having left Russia at a bad time. It is also possible, if the war prolongs, that Russia wil start to conscript female soldiers because there will be a strong disbalance of woman and men after the war. Not only due to deaths but also because more men than woman left the country for good. Maybe Chinese men will travel Russia to find a woman, when China has a disbalance (more men) opposed to Russia (more woman). But even if that happens, it will take a lot of time for Russia to come back to a growth path, because trust is damaged. And trust is a driver to a lot of things including stabilization of currency, acquiring foreign labor and of course foreign investment. Possibly it will take a sort of a Marshall-Plan to help Russia putting the aftermath of the war behind.

She could tell you that with fewer workforce welfare is decreasing - especialy in the long run 😅

Denis Manturow just officially announced there’s a shortage of 160’000 workers in the military industrial complex!

Their existence….?

A lot of Russian trolls on this channel.

Nobody was treating them, all was going reasonably well for them had Putin kept his head. Now you will see China will quietly take over, what a fecking mess he has got Russia into

​@@ronliber4135from mafo

yep, that whats putin wants them to believe :D Its clearly peak north korea look a like competion, as in st.peterburg international economic forum they spoke about nuking europe and no mention about biggest company in russia losing money and crashing. Good example how crazy and stupid the russian mentality is.

Germany was highly penetrated by KGB.

A country can only prop up their GDP by squandering its savings manufacturing weapons for a pointless war for so long. Eventually its savings run out.

You should check the french stock exchange.

Ranked 12 currently

Russians are not starving but people in Britain, America and Australia are. You automatically think he is going to lose. If the war develops into a third world war, Russia will have the backing of China and Nth Korea and we will see then who surrenders. NATO couldn’t beat the peasant army in Afghanistan never mind Russia. If you live in Europe you would be best emigrate, it would be madness to think Putin won’t retaliate against an attack on Russia and why would Russia starve it is a net exporter of food. You clearly don’t know what you are talking about

And then there's the real world. Seriously....

ru talking about US military Regime 🤔

Western think tanks have been elaborately and skillfully lying to readers and listeners since their inception. When they arrive in the real world, perhaps they will see it with their own eyes.

Yeah, RuSSia, the fascist state, is winning from Ukraine that is supported by 54 countries. Logical 😂

And ukraines population and demographic is better then russias ? why even mention those things when ukraine will run out of manpower ay before russia. Or are you suggesting someone else to go fight ? lile europeeans ?

If investing an absurd amount of money in the military was a recipee for economic growth, North Korea would be one of the richest country on earth. The USA benefited from its position post-war as one of the world superpower and the relative weakness of the european powers which industries had been ravaged during the war and owed the US huge amounts of money. We can also note that the dollar became the reserve currency in 1944 (arguably 1931, but more officially in 1944). That helped quite a lot too. All that to say I wouldn't bet too much on a post world war 2 effect for Russia once this war is over. Even in case of a russian victory.

Who in their right mind would loan money to Russia? This war has really spotlighted the Putin regime's lack of respect for laws, property rights, & treaty obligations, as businesses, airplanes, patents and trademarks, etc., have been expropriated or treated like toilet paper. If you don't believe me, ask someone who owned Russian stocks before the war. Ask them if they believe Russian bonds would be a good investment. They will give you a strange look.

I understand why you might think Russia could afford as much debt as the US, but you are very wrong. Russia does not have the same starting position at all. It starts with the demographics, goes on with growth, continues with law and regulation and does not end with an unstable government.

​@@polarvortex3294My thoughts exactly.

Train cars?

The World Bank has no means to verify Russian statistics. Russian economy is doing as good as Russia says it's doing.

Western think tanks have been elaborately and skillfully lying to readers and listeners since their inception. When they arrive in the real world, perhaps they will see it with their own eyes.

But this time the EU is on the wrong side of the iron curtain

Western think tanks have been elaborately and skillfully lying to readers and listeners since their inception. When they arrive in the real world, perhaps they will see it with their own eyes.

Lol. So who run out of weapons, ammunitions n people now?

Which one of your leaders compare to Putin

Even if Putin was not the president, why believe the Russian parliament would have a different policy. The Russian parliament almost in its entirety and, based on recent elections, over 80% of the electorate absolutely support Russia in its actions in Ukraine against the proxy American / NATO forces. When a threat is seen to be existential, such as this American lead action against the RF, a country will persist in its military defences as a major priority. I don’t believe for a moment that Russia is on the brink of collapse.

@@khunmikeon858 it’s so tempting to operate with some imaginary substances as ‘NATO threat’, ‘proxi American’, ‘Russian parliament’ or ‘Russian elections’. RT vocabulary is deep in your mind, so deep it has constructed alternative reality. For more than 20 years all the institutions you take for democratic and independent in Russia - parliament, elections, polls on public opinion - they’ve been substituted by fake imitations. Even the Constitution court is just a brunch of putin’s administration, not talking about media. All tools of power in Russia are concentrated and manipulated from one center, and they all work for one and only goal - to keep this particular man in power. All the hydrocarbon incomes come through the chain of puppet oligarchs and close personal friends. It’s just a criminal clan which has its own state as a feeding base. And this clan is the only real threat to the existence of Russia. And as it has became obvious for the last two years - for the rest of the world.

She is not talking about theory. She is just looking at different aspects. You are both right.

@@frederikzinn6568 Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Russian central bank, raised interest rates from 7 to 16% to fight inflation last year. She announced this his will be temporary until inflation comes down. Last week at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum she said inflation is growing and she doesn’t see an end of this process. That means interest rates will have to raise further. Not indicators of a healthy economy.

@@frederikzinn6568 Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Russian central bank, raised interest rates from 7 to 16% to fight inflation last year. She announced this his will be temporary until inflation comes down. Last week at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum she said inflation is growing and she doesn’t see an end of this process. That means interest rates will have to raise further. Not signs of a healthy economy.

Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Russian central bank, raised interest rates from 7 to 16% to fight inflation last year. She announced this his will be temporary until inflation comes down. Last week at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum she said inflation is growing and she doesn’t see an end of this process. That means interest rates will have to raise further. Not signs of a healthy economy.

putin used up his reserve fund and put the russian budget in deficit, and is now printing roubles to finance his war with the lack of revenue coming in. its why inflation is going up in russia quickly now. also printing roubles to spend 35 percent of budget on war creates problems as you dont get back tax revenue to the russian economy for the capital expenditure of 1 billion in artillery shells that are destroyed in ukraine, or a 3 million dollar tank that is destroyed in ukraine, or 6 million dollar calibre missiles that are destroyed in ukraine. you dont get economic growth or tax revenue going to russian economy from that for the capital expenditure to create weapons and goods for war. basically its russian state pays factory for weapons or ammo or goods for war, it gets destroyed and the capital spent is gone. no tax revenue coming back.

Not really, but who cares anyway.

that changed today with implementation of secondary sanctions on the small vtb banks in china and india turkey and others that were helping russia finance the war or circumvent sanctions. as you see there is a run on russian banks now and the russian stock exchange callapsed.

​@@leogetz-rf1kfThe RUSSIAN stock exchange has collapsed so much THAT IT HAD SUSPENDED ALL TRADINGS IN$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, but in the YUAN Instead.What a colossal collapse,EH?

Ha ha ha…

Keep dreaming. The world is turning away from using the dollar as the reserve currency. India just agreed to buy 350 million barrels of Russian oil per month. Payment is to be made in rubles, not dollars. More than 90 nations are trying to join BRICS

They are doing the same in the west?

@@johnnagle7702 OK Ivan. Best get back to the Pravda propaganda show now.

And even then, rebuilding conquered Ukraine will be a money sink for decades because there will be no Western involvement and no expectation of growth. A Russia that wins is an isolated Russia whereas a Russia that loses can begin to recover and to mend relationships.

STEAL?Stealing: The " unfreezing" of SOVEREIGN RUSSIAN MONEY,that's stealing.Let me see: At the completion of all hostilities Russia wins controll of Ukraine,that holds $ 12 trillion in natural resources,WE ON THE OTHER HAND,BEHAVE AS " BUMS" looking for loose change.The world now,ONLY HAS 2 SANE LEADERS reacting to current affairs,to benefit their people.

not really. So far the economic pain is mostly in the EU, and Ukraine. The russians have 6% of their GDP in defense and less than 2% of the population in the armed forces. Hardly a war economy so far.

The same applies to European facilities and locations. And of course also for the US military.

@@katz4930 voici la liste des grandes villes en Europe : Moscou, Russie : 20 215 638 habitants. Paris, France : 15 054 800 habitants. Istanbul, Turquie : 14 657 434 habitants. Londres, Royaume-Uni : 14 372 596 habitants. Rhin-Ruhr, Allemagne : 10 642 890 habitants. Randstad, Pays-Bas : 8 366 078 habitants. Milan, Italie : 8 247 125 habitants. Madrid, Espagne : 6 475 872 habitants. Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie : 6 290 174 habitants. Barcelone, Espagne : 5 407 264 habitants. Laissons de côté les villes américaines et du royaume uni. À ton avis, qui restera debout après un échange de bombes nucléaires ?

@@katz4930 Russia intervened unilaterally to defend Russian populations allegedly inside the neighboring country against imaginary violence, or at the request of Bashar, against its population: destruction by Russian aerial bombardment of the city of Aleppo. These annexed provinces more or less close to its borders, for example South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Western Syria, still occupied by the Russian army, Crimea, and part of Ukraine… The United States intervened -- without a Russian veto in the United Nations Security Council -- in accordance with a resolution of this council, or, otherwise, it was in self-defense against a terrorist organization which had attacked the United States on its soil: Afghanistan, Iraq, Serbia, Syria… It is therefore very different from Russia, and in fact not comparable. It was inaccurate to say that American armies have waged war and wreaked destruction on its neighbors in the same way that Russian troops have done in Georgia and Ukraine (not to mention Syria).

How exactly would this video develop new knowledge? That's a really strange statement.

@@midwesttraveler2485 If the video title is: "If the Video title says "How Long Can Putin Afford to Wage War in Ukraine?" then we must be able to infer from it that they have, for example, carried out a study and analyzed data. Then they could actually say something about the topic and contribute new insights into mass murder.

@tomschi9485 Not really. That's only your interpretation of it. It could just be a discussion on facts that are already known, which most interviews end up being. Topics covered could be economic ability, manpower, and political will. Not all these points contain data that can be analyzed. Maybe you'd be better off explaining what you mean by "develop new knowledge."

Sure, keep dreaming

That's how it works Anthony read your economic history

@@johnnagle7702 don't go Gray waiting for the collapse of the dollar

Two to three years tops. The Russian people aren't going to put up with this nonsense forever.

@@michaelkatz275 Russians have revolutions every 70 years so we have long time to wait.

with secondary sanctions implemented today on small vtb banks in china, india and turkey and others, as well as russia cut off from using us dollar, and with putin printing roubles to finance his war now that his reserve fund is gone, i think russia has 18 to 24 months before high inflation turns into out of control hyperinflation and sinks the russian economy for good. they will be back to a 1990 ussr moment.

Why? As worse the economical situation in Russia become as easier it is for Putin to stay in power. He learned lot from North Korea.

@@maritaschweizer1117 Russians are not North Koreans. Tsar Nicholas found that out in 1917.

@@maritaschweizer1117, North Korea has been propped up by the Soviet Union and China. Who’s going to prop up Russia?

Oh,WHERE WOULD THAT BE? PRAY TELL.I'm all ears.

And then there's the real world. Casualties are low, and largely compensated by immigration.Western goods are replaced by chinese goods and that's about it.

Well last time they were 'comfortable' with losing about 30,000,000?

The support of China means sanctions have little impact

Russia is investing something like 17% of GDP in this war, what means they can only pay for essentials. Because Russia is so large it has a lot of infrastructure, that infrastructure need maintenance. You can postpone maintenance five or maybe ten years. But will start to pile up, crumble and repairs become more expensive. If you don't paint your bridges in time, they start to rust and need to be replaced.

1 in 13 bridges in the USA is in poor condition and at risk of collapse. According to CNN

@@JesterEric The US made a stupid decision not investing in infrastructure and that will be their downfall. Europe has fantastic infrastructure, just a lot less growth in the last two decades.... that was the trade off. Russia will have both, bad infrastructure AND a bad economy. And if the US can't keep up with maintenance of their infrastructure Russia definitely can't.

yep. The French stock market collapse did hurt quite a lot around -10% in a week. And it's just the begining. Unfortunately. :(

We in the USA are spending 1 TENTH OF 1% of our defense budget..can't afford Ukraine..it's peanuts to us...We blew one TRILLION in Afghanistan...ding dong

The inflation is generally on the way down. This means Central banks don't need to hike up interests, they are on the way down. The economy is recovering in Western countries. How about Russia?

Our great western leaders care about us.

Ask your leaders

Putin only cares about the war not the people or lives lost he has lost his mind

Hahaha! God, that is all So incorrect!

Ummmm, no they aren't, Western govts are openly funding it, the CIA are just watching and helping as they should, it's kinda their job.