Why is Russia investing in military power above its own economic level?

Why is Russia investing in military power above its own economic level?

Would not it be better to develop the economy with that money?

They literally think if they invade richer countries they become rich. Except they leave a mess like Königsberg/Kaliningrad.

Money is worth jack shit if some big bully takes it from you whenever you have it.

>4%
>above economic level
if anything USA is spending too much to stay in power

>russia
>invading richer countries

Have they actually ever done that?

They've seen American companies kiking the shit out of people with a huge military budget and they be like: "Ayo, we can just steal da monny if we make more contracts". At least American government does something to maintain the country on a semi-decent level. Our guys don't care about us again. Well, they don't even consider us a nation, lmao.

Karelia

Because of cold war

To project power beyond reasonable means of their economy

to compensate micro penis

finland was poor as shit then
they became rich only because they traded with USSR after ww2

>trade with Russia
They became rich because of Nokia

They became rich in the Russian Empire actually.

>They became rich because of Nokia

Now that's what I call a big lie. Every cold war lived people here say that it was trade with Soviet Union that made this country wealthy.

Mate, you're retarded

The Baltics were richer than them in the Russian Empire. You guys really fucked up with your commie shit. We tried to warn you.

Sure trade with ussr was a big part of it, but also because of the war compensation. Finland had to develop industry to be able to make the payments and when the compensations were finally paid, we had a nation with modern industry, infrastructure and need to identify with nordic wellfare societies instead of ussr.

Fucking s*viets.

Based on their calculations your entire economy depends on Russia even though it's max 10% of trade. You had a free market economy which was denied for 50 years to them, Russians really can't understand how the free market works.

well, you do spend more than you need to

Boo hoo
The strongest military in history has to spend money on its military.

Maybe we'll nuke you fucks and put the weapons to a good use

>Maybe we'll nuke you fucks and put the weapons to a good use

>saudi arabia invests that much into their military
>military is rarely used and they're always incompetent

But why?

>Would not it be better to develop the economy with that money?
Developing the economy would result in a nascent bourgeois class that would demand a much stronger and more active civil society. It isn't in the interests of the people who rule that cunt.

>We tried to warn you
No you didn't
Balts basically helped bolsheviks to win because they promised independence ( lol )

What? You know what's going on in Yemen? Proxy war since Iran is supporting the terrorists there. They have to pump money into their military

Implying Russia's government has the people's best interests in mind.

> Finland had to develop industry to be able to make the payments
This is just Kekkonen-era pro-Soviet propaganda actually. Industrialisation was well on its way in Finland even before WW II

Iran is supporting Houthis, not terrorists you fucking retard

Pax Americana, just like Pax Britannica before it.

This is why some countries invest in military, it doesnt matter if your country is rich if you can't protect it too bad usa doesn't allow mexico to invest on the development of new weapons.

>2015
>1.9%

>2016
>3.3%

What did IVPITER mean by this?

>too bad USA doesn't allow mexico to invest on the development of new weapons
I did not know about this, can they even interfere in the development course of other nations without resorting to heavy subterfuge?

they do it all the time, everywhere
fucking americans

Our country is too large and we have too many rivals/enemies. So we need to have extreme defence first. All other comes second.

Imperial overstretch is real and leads to the fall of Empires.

Because the economy here doesn't work, all money they invest shall be stolen and there is no fucking fag who knows shit about it.
This is also due to Putin personality he just loves those things, new rockets etc etc.

Because Russia’s only strength is it’s army, without it no one would fear them aka become USA’s bitch.

Russia's military is its economy!