00:00In Putin's Russia, the most economically beneficial way of using your life is to be killed at the Ukrainian farm.
00:23Putin switched the whole system into what I am calling the mercenaries army.
00:28So the mercenaries army, to my mind, is one where the soldiers get paid much significantly or much more than
00:37the average Russian citizen can earn.
01:05If a 35-year-old Russian from a mean Russian region, having an average job, conscripts into the army or
01:15joins the army, fights in Ukraine for half a year and is killed, his family will get more money that
01:22he can earn till the end of his life.
01:25How do you take the money and give it to the soldiers or to their families?
01:38When you take the money and give it to the soldiers or to their families, it's a pure 100%
01:43injection of state money into the national economy,
01:47which goes predominantly to the poor regions, most of all to the poor social stratas, and therefore it converts immediately
01:56into the increasing final demand.
01:58The people who are enlisting themselves into the army, they are not so much active and productive economic forces.
02:06So therefore, actually, they are not the best element of the human capital in Russia and of the current workforce.
02:14So therefore, even if they are killed, it doesn't harm the Russian economic ability too much.
02:27For me, it was an absolute right decision from Putin's side because since this time on any kind of protest
02:38in Russia against the wall has appeared.
02:39And I have no hope for them to write.
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