▲ 361 ▼ Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo (united24media.com) submitted 11 months ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz 50 comments fedilink hide all child comments Buying one way tickets to hell for Russian soldiers by selling off Russia's gold and treasure... What will be left when all the humans and gold have been carelessly traded away by Putin to power the mindless Russian war machine?
[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 46 points 11 months ago (3 children) Wow, that is a massive amount to burn through. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago (1 child) Corruption is actually a feature in this case. Most of that cash is actually pumped directly into local economies. /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago Lol! permalink fedilink source parent [–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 21 points 11 months ago It is until you realize how expensive this war is. The damage a drone does to an oil refinery probably costs a few millions to repair and even more in lost profits, if it actually stops production. Tanks cost a million a piece easily. Air defense, planes and so forth easily cost more. Even something like a Shahed is $200k per shot. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago (1 child) Corruption is actually a feature in this case. Most of that cash is actually pumped directly into local economies. /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago Lol! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 21 points 11 months ago It is until you realize how expensive this war is. The damage a drone does to an oil refinery probably costs a few millions to repair and even more in lost profits, if it actually stops production. Tanks cost a million a piece easily. Air defense, planes and so forth easily cost more. Even something like a Shahed is $200k per shot. permalink fedilink source parent