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After Russia reverts to centrally planned and state driven economy, all of a sudden economic growth in Russia is beating the west. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 9 months ago

The war industry isn't actually that big of the overall percentage of the overall economy. Western publications tend to focus on the war industry as the explanation, but the reality is that western decoupling opened up a lot of economic niches that are now being filled domestically.