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Accession of new territories: Billions of dollars in expenses and trillions in revenues
The accession of new territories to Russia is justifiable from the economic point of view and will not have a negative impact on the Russian budget, the Kremlin said.
As Russia readies to grow even larger, experts try to calculate how much it will cost the Russian budget to rebuild cities and restore peaceful life in the new territories. Some others try to find out how much profit the new territories will bring.
The Washington Post announced the approximate cost of mineral deposits in the new regions — about 12.4 trillion dollars.
The Vedomosti newspaper wrote that the economic potential of the territories of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions would amount to $130 billion in 2021 prices. In other words, 20% of the Ukrainian economy will add 2.9% to the Russian economy.
See more at https://english.pravda.ru/russia/154170-russia_new_territories/
It seems that that Russians calculated early on that their response to Biden cutting them off from Europe would be to compensate by taking Ukraine.
Quite how much they will take is still unknown - but the calculation is that the 20% they already hold will earn them trillions of dollars.
Wouldn't it have been far, far better to allow the Russians and Europeans to integrate ? The NATO advance is a clusterfuck.