On: Putin’s Challenge to Western Hegemony

[DisjointedHunt]

Is budget the same as foreign exchange inflows? That's what the author is pointing out as the bulwark to the international pressure.

[bvrmn → DisjointedHunt]

Russian total trade in 2020 was 550M. Poland has 510M total trade same year. Russian external economy is really very small.

[rdtsc → bvrmn]

And that explains why they are not too worried about sanctions. Sure, it would be unpleasant but they are already under sanctions and Putin is hasn’t lost popularity too much.

[bvrmn → rdtsc]

Putin lost a big chunk of popularity. Support index dropped from 57% in 2018 to 32% in 2021.

[nradov → bvrmn]

So Putin now has about the same approval rating as Biden.

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3831