"Russia is the only major world economy expected to shrink"

[The Notorious SLAV]

Brutal. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this war will start a dark age of East Slavic men (unless Ukrainians will use the really good drones they are making right now and end up exporting them and making fortunes out of that). In theory, that's not bad for non-East Slavs like me, but still uncomfortable given the decline of EE's importance and geopolitical pull this will result in, as well as sad to see.

https://incels.is/threads/this-retarded-war-is-actually-going-to-start-a-dark-age-of-east-slavic-men.819998/

Ranked: The World’s Biggest Economies by 2031

By 2031, India is projected to leapfrog three developed countries to become the world's third-largest economy.

www.visualcapitalist.com

I like comparing them to Japan, since they have similar populations, and in this case, it's almost sad. Russia has been one of the fastest-growing major economies for the last few decades, Japan has had an anemic economy for as long if not longer, but as this infographic shows, it hasn't been enough for the former to catch up, and now, it seems that the distance between them is bound to widen even more.

Apart from that, Brazil is apparently about to overtake Russia in this area, mirroring what had happened between the two according to the newest data on scientific publications by country, which makes sense as scientific publications are one of the things most correlated with GDP, and sending Russia to the 4th spot out of the original BRICS, now above just South Africa in those two areas. Mexico is also about to overtake it according to this infographic, which, now that I think about it, Mexico is probably a much better country to compare Russia to than Japan, since those three have similar populations, but Mexico is overall much more similar to Russia in most regards and in their general development and technological level. The difference there is that Russia has actually been growing quite quickly in recent past, while Mexico is a country that notoriously has trouble with economic growth.

Finally, Canada is also poised to overtake Russia while Australia is going to be neck-and-neck with it, those two being Anglosphere countries with much lower populations and which, especially the former, are routinely pushed around by the US, with their overtaking of Russia in terms of total economic size being probably the best symbol of the death of any hopes of Russia being a possible rival or a peer adversary to Anglos and the wider West in any way.

And it's not just about the wider economy. According to the newest Frank Knight Wealth report, Russia's already unimpressive ultra-high net worth (UHNWI) population is about to see one of the weakest growths globally.

https://i.emlfiles4.com/cmpdoc/0/4/8/5/2/1/files/146815_the-wealth-report-2026.pdf

Ranked: Where the Ultra-Rich Are Growing Fastest

See which countries are gaining the most ultra-rich residents, with the U.S. projected to add nearly 67,000 by 2026.

www.visualcapitalist.com

Mapped: Where the World’s Ultra-Rich Live in 2026

See where the world’s ultra-rich live in 2026, with the U.S. and China accounting for over half of the total.

www.visualcapitalist.com

Now, that's obviously not bad by itself, if anything, having fewer ultra-richfags would be better in many ways, but given that Russia is a notoriously unequal country, the fact that despite all of that inequality they are going to see such small increase among their super-rich, speaks volumes. Their oligarchs are getting just about everything, and it's nowhere near enough for the Epstein class there to grow at any decent rate.

 

[Belowthesalt]

will start a dark age of East Slavic

When was there not a dark age for slavs.

The war did boost their economy as it lead to an increase of defence budgets and thus a need for new weapons and manufacturing, but that has a ceiling which it hit fast and that was the only thing Russia has going for itself, before the war they were already suffering from a massive brain drain which has only been exacerbated. After the industries reached max production the increases in defence budgets only led to inflation which was met with higher interest rates thus hurting the civilian economy and finally the labour market is dry as I said the brain drain plus war means the economy doesn't have room to grow.

 

[dumbozhina]

most major economies will shrink, including Japan's and Europe's. demographics and competition.
But Russia is of course fucked.
caring about economic growth is normie, i am actually happy that world economy is fucked.

 

[turbocuckcel_7000]

everything is fundamentally fucked.
live in russia you will probably be poor and then face war.
live in western europe and you will still be poor if you are not lucky and then live in nigger hell.
live in america and you get your dick mutilated at birth and then you live in nigger hell.

i don't want to live in a big country or a big city at all.
i wouldn't want to live anywhere else than where i live now, a small and inconsequential country. in fact i wish i lived in an even smaller town and had an even simpler life, the only thing i wanted was to not wake up in bed alone every day. that's it.

 

[The Notorious SLAV]

When was there not a dark age for slavs.

Touché.

By that I meant not the average shittiness, but a flat-out return to the 90s helltimes, or at least something like it.

most major economies will shrink, including Japan's and Europe's. demographics and competition.

Fair enough, though their decline is somewhere in the future and could be offset by technology and highly-skilled immigration, neither of which Russia can really employ, especially right now that their decline is apparently coming.

i wouldn't want to live anywhere else than where i live now, a small and inconsequential country. in fact i wish i lived in an even smaller town and had an even simpler life, the only thing i wanted was to not wake up in bed alone every day. that's it.

Based.