Russian military expenditures in 2023 federal budget are, however, already reduced from expected numbers. That said, claims about inevitable collapse are indeed funny. The war can be funded by all intéressés for years to come. After that two, or possibly more, hollow shells of former Soviet empire remnants will lay in ruins, metaphorical or literal. But money will have been already successfully spent. That’s all they wrote.

Anyone who sincerely thinks that Russia or Ukraine will restore and rebuild Donbass should utter praise when (s)he has been taught the statutes of Omsk metro.