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![Joseph Place]( "Joseph Place")
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- War in Ukraine
German intelligence estimates that Russia’s true military spending may be 66% higher than officially reported, amounting to roughly 10% of GDP and nearly half of the federal budget. We show how it compares to historical and present examples.![Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, visits Uralvagonzavod, the country’s main tank factory in the Urals, in Nizhny Tagil on February 15, 2024. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, visits Uralvagonzavod, the country’s main tank factory in the Urals, in Nizhny Tagil on February 15, 2024. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shakes hands with Former Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (L) during a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Kyiv on January 12, 2024. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shakes hands with Former Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (L) during a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Kyiv on January 12, 2024. (Source: Getty Images)")
![In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin inspects the “Zapad-2025” (West-2025) joint Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. (Source: Getty Images)]( "In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin inspects the “Zapad-2025” (West-2025) joint Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. (Source: Getty Images)")
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