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Imagine what could have achieved Russia if instead of wasting all those billions on insisting to expanding their territory with barren lands.
They could have built some high speed train network that linked the Pacific ocean to the Atlantic ocean. They could even got additional billions from China having a rail network that could send Chinese goods to Europe in days instead of months, rendering ocean freight obsolete
Without all the embargoes (yes, by giving back Crimea too), they could have accessed to higher tech and collaborating with other countries to create tech hubs and chip fabs.
Building cities where people want to live and not dream to move abroad one day
But no, it's better to waste those billions to build weapons and letting their youth die on a senseless cause.
They accumulated an insane wealth over the decades selling the fossil fuels and then is going to be wasted all on the military complex instead of improving the country to a next level
This describes every country that spends money on violence. We will never learn as there is always someone who will arm up and justify the rest from doing the same.
To be fair, you're posting messages here using protocol, that was used for military purposes. (The TCP/IP used to be called DoD protocol back then) So it's not like the money is completely wasted if you're smart about it.
Building good road/rail infrastructure to enable the ability to respond to military threats within the country would also benefit the general population.
Throwing nearly half a million of your productive generation men into a meat grinder in an offensive war certainly isn't one of those smart investments.
That was mostly done with prisoner labour. So it was quite cheap relatively speaking. Most of it was still quite useless though. Grabbing land for the sake of grabbing land (a common Russian theme). Not to mention the mismanaged projects that led nowhere.