This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

The global economy, the Russian economy.

I go to Akaterina Zelotva for geopolitical future.

She's in Moscow, writing about the prospects for 2025 and beyond

on the basis of the war fighting, the energy markets,

and also the ability of Russia to handle what is called

war Keynesianism or military Keynesianism. The way it was said during the Great War was everything

for the front. The defense industry has been going 24 hours a day for years now, demanding labor.

There is not enough workers in the defense industry, and they compete directly with the military.

However, there are consequences of all of this imbalance.

At Catarina, a very good evening to you.

You announced right away in your first paragraph that 2025 is not going to be a good year. How bad? Good evening to you.

Good evening. Well, Russia starts the new year with the many problems that it had before. So first of all, it's the continuation of Ukrainian conflict.

It is still not very clear what's going to be in the front, but Russia still continues to

increase their military defense system. Russia still continues to produce a lot of military

equipment. And right now it's talking about major threat of NATO, that NATO may have, that Russia and

NATO may have some conflict in future years in the territory of Europe.

This is the idea that was discussed many times in the Ministry of Defense of Russia in December.

Russia also continues to face tough sanctions,

and the countries like the United States and the European Union are still discussing new packages of sanctions.

So the Russian economy is still very vulnerable because of this pressure.

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