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Old 25-10-2022, 05:22 PM   #1161
PhilT2
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Default Re: Russia v Ukraine

A Russian economist has put out a paper predicting the collapse of the Russian economy.
https://theins.ru/en/opinion/vladisl...zemtsev/255450
He confirms rumours that the current mobilisation is intended to draft not 300,000 but 1,000,000 new recruits into the military. But his opinion is that not the loss of these men nor the others that have fled the country will cause the collapse. He suggests that when recruiters start to visit workplaces to fill their quotas many men will quit their jobs and this will be the final straw for the economy. His estimate is that three or four million men will disappear from the legal workforce and try to support themselves in blackmarket activities.
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