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Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, its economy has surpassed most expectations.

Last year, Russia's economy grew more than the United States and Europe, and on top of that, Russian unemployment is at a record low. Vladimir

Putin and Russian supporters have hailed this as a great success and as of evidence that Western

sanctions didn't work.

It's worth noting that the Ukrainian economy also outgrew the United States and Europe over

the last two years, having grown 2.9% last year and 5.5% the year before. But, of course,

no one is trying to claim that business is booming

in Ukraine. With some carefully chosen numbers, you can put a very positive spin on the growth

of the Russian economy. And the reason for this is that wartime economies are very different

to peacetime economies, and so we have to analyze them

differently. While wars are destructive of physical and human capital, these don't show up

in national income accounting. Spending on weapons production and the vast spending required

to reorient Russia's economy, which used to face towards the

West and now faces towards the East, boosts GDP. As impressive as the GDP growth rates in Ukraine

over the last two years might at first sound, they come in the wake of a 30% decline in

GDP in 2022 when the country was invaded.

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