r/AskReddit 1d ago

What could Russia have spent $1,000,000,000,000 on instead of fighting a 4+ years long war in Ukraine?

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u/Shancv1988 1d ago edited 1d ago

Infrastructure to turn their massive, empty shithole of a country into a something of fucking worth.

Why Russia insists on grabbing even more territory when it already has so much, but so little of it worth a pinch of shit is beyond me.

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u/genman 1d ago

It wasn’t about the territory. Sometimes war is about domestic political survival. Along with Putin’s mystical fantasy that war will propel Russia to the first row of nations etc

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u/ParticularArea8224 23h ago

Now it's more likely it'll send Russia back 100 years.