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TexasTowelie

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Sat Nov 29, 2025, 09:15 PM 17 hrs ago

Russia Exposed - Joe Blogs



Russia has just released its latest economic data for October, and at first glance it looks like the Russian economy is bouncing back. Industrial production is up, manufacturing has surged, and the headlines suggest that everything is improving.

But dig beneath the surface and you find a completely different story.

In this video, I break down the latest figures from the Russian State Statistics Agency and show how Russia’s economy is being propped up by war spending, inflation, and money printing — not genuine recovery.

We look at:
✓ Why industrial production has spiked — and why it has nothing to do with consumer demand
✓ How food inflation is crushing ordinary Russians
✓ Why producer prices (PPI) are rising even faster than consumer prices
✓ How Russia’s rapid money-supply expansion is fuelling inflation
✓ What’s really happening inside the civilian economy
✓ The growing divide between Russia’s war economy and the real economy
✓ Why Russia is now facing a clear stagflation risk

I also show the latest graphs on inflation, food prices, producer costs, industrial output and the money supply — and explain what these trends mean for Russia’s economic future.

This is the most important Russia economic update in months — and it tells a very different story from the official narrative.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:35 INFLATION
4:35 PRODUCER PRICES
7:02 MONEY SUPPLY
8:04 INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
9:51 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION
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