Putin’s now four year long war in the Ukraine may have cost Russia as much as $2.5 trillion

When will the apathetic and lethargic Russian people finally get rid of the warmonger and war criminal Putin the Terrible!

"As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, debates over sanctions, negotiations and military aid increasingly hinge on a central question: How costly has the war been for Russia itself? Our analysis, using standard economic tools, finds the cost so far to be about $2.5 trillion. That doesn’t mean, of course, that Putin has borne much of that cost.

A January 2026 report by researchers from the Center for Strategic and International Studies indicates that this war has now claimed 325,000 Russian lives and 875,000 wounded (or missing). For context, roughly 15,000 Soviet military personnel were killed in the ten-year Afghan war. ..."

Putin’s $2.5 trillion gambit

What a scarecrow (or what a monster)!

"In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during a meeting of the Federal Security Service Board in Moscow on Feb. 24, 2026."