RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: When Moscows mayor Sergei Sobyanin warns that Russia risks “killing the country itself” by turning its entire economy into a war machine that’s not dissent, that’s a system in panic. Hes no rebel. But he said what the Kremlin can’t hide anymore: The war is devouring the economy that sustains it. Sobyanin’s logic is brutally simple: If everything becomes military, there’s soon nothing left to tax. No consumption, no income, no future. It’s like burning your house to stay warm. Meanwhile, lawmakers demand more mobilization, more production,more war. But Sobyanin’s warning cuts through the noise: When the civilian economy dies, the state dies with it. Source: TAS

When Moscows mayor Sergei Sobyanin warns that Russia risks “killing the country itself” by turning its entire economy into a war machine  that’s not dissent, that’s a system in panic.

Hes no rebel. But he said what the Kremlin can’t hide anymore: The war is devouring the economy that sustains it.
Sobyanin’s logic is brutally simple: If everything becomes military, there’s soon nothing left to tax. No consumption, no income, no future. It’s like burning your house to stay warm.

Meanwhile, lawmakers demand more mobilization, more production,more war. But Sobyanin’s warning cuts through the noise: When the civilian economy dies, the state dies with it.
Source: TASS, Reuters, Iltalehti, Russian Central Bank.

— @jalle51 Aug 7, 2026