Silicon Wafers
Silicon Wafers 030 | The Cracks Are Showing in the Russian economy. Loyalist economists on state TV now warn the economy is sliding into a hole the Kremlin can’t paper over. Alarm bells inside Russia’s own information space are ringing. We’ll dig into the numbers—tax hikes, corporate losses, shuttered factories, and cash-starved regions—and why it matters for Putin’s war machine.
What Russia’s own economists are saying. Let’s start with what normally never breaks through the propaganda glaze. In recent weeks, pro-Kremlin economists on state channels have begun sounding like doomsayers. One TV guest fumed that the rules “keep changing,” and that the new tax rises will ripple through to ordinary people far beyond “two percent on the price tag” referencing the VAT hike. He warned the real hit at the till could be 10–20%, depending on the supply chain.
Another economist was even blunter: “Real living standards will fall.” Why? Fuel and logistics feed into every product price, wages trail inflation, and now comes a heavier tax squeeze.
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“Real living standards will fall.”
The return of the bread queues and empty shelves, while the sheep praise putler for being a strong leader.
Strong hunger might negate any strong feelings for a strong führer, even for a weak race.
It didn’t in the USSR. The sheep still queued up for non-existent food without a whimper. The sheep are too indoctrinated to ever protest against their leaders.
In the SU, they at least had potatoes. 😄
Yeah, and buckwheat. 😂
And the butter wasn’t in a theft-proof, high-security container.
Mainly because they had no butter in the USSR. 😂
I thought it was bananas. 😄
They do have the monkeys though. 😂