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how would they pay for the war if they don't sell gas to us in Europe? Besides, the EU presented the plan to get rid of the RU gas dependency: https://www.the

• dalbasal 5y ago
  At the moment, they aren't paying for much. Most of what they're using (weapons, vehicles, fuel, ammo) is coming out of storage, reserves, etc. Soldier pay is in rubles. That's not to say russian doesn't need money, but this isn't that kind of war... at this point.
• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > how would they pay for the war if they don't sell gas to us in Europe? Degraded capacity and suffering of the Russian people, mostly. The consumables they can build they will, everything else will get used up in the hope that the war is won before the capacity to fight it is fully degraded, and that once there is a fair accompli in Ukraine, a sufficient subset of the world will see no point in further sanctions and they’ll be able to use the expanded economic power from their victory to build back. (I don't think it's a good plan, but it's all they have left.)