"The resurrection of the Soviet military industrial complex – to borrow a term from Pierre-Marie Meunier, the French intelligence analyst – is cannibalising the rest of the economy. Some 800,000 of the young and best-educated have left the country. The numbers slaughtered or maimed in the meat grinder are approaching half a million."

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Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think

Russia’s resurrected military industrial complex is cannibalising the rest of its economy

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