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Again, let's look at the numbers. The draft three-year federal budget for 2027–2029, created by the Kremlin, clearly documents the strategic stalemate of the state machine, sacrificing the viability of the national economy and the basic social sphere for the sake of a hypertrophied power bloc. The planned increase in defense spending to 17.1 trillion rubles, combined with spending on internal security, will absorb an unprecedented 44% of the entire federal budget, turning the state treasury into a one-sided instrument for supplying the military-industrial complex. The cost of this militaristic imbalance is proving unaffordable for civilian sectors: funding for social policy is cut by 9.6% taking inflation into account, education loses 5.4%, and the agro-industrial complex experiences a completely large-scale defeat, shrinking by a third to 261.7 billion rubles. At the same compulsive time, the authorities' cynical promise to peg the wages of federal public sector workers at a symbolic rate of 6.8–7.1% (which in reality barely covers 3% of net growth) looks like complete mockery against the backdrop of regional specialists - local doctors and teachers, whose income is siphoned off. However, the regions themselves are in the deepest financial crisis: the total deficit of local budgets at the end of last year reached a record 1.5 trillion rubles, growing in the first half of 2026 by another 134.2 billion rubles, which has already brought 66 regions to the brink of bankruptcy and forces officials to cut spending. This budget streamlining is taking on particularly catastrophic contours in the healthcare sector, where the state machine is de facto transferring the population to strict natural selection rails.

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Again, let's look at the numbers. The draft three-year federal budget for 2027–2029, created by the Kremlin, clearly documents the strategic stalemate of the state machine, sacrificing the viability of the national economy and the basic social sphere for the sake of a hypertrophied power bloc. The planned increase in defense spending to 17.1 trillion rubles, combined with spending on internal security, will absorb an unprecedented 44% of the entire federal budget, turning the state treasury into a one-sided instrument for supplying the military-industrial complex. The cost of this militaristic imbalance is proving unaffordable for civilian sectors: funding for social policy is cut by 9.6% taking inflation into account, education loses 5.4%, and the agro-industrial complex experiences a completely large-scale defeat, shrinking by a third to 261.7 billion rubles. At the same compulsive time, the authorities' cynical promise to peg the wages of federal public sector workers at a symbolic rate of 6.8–7.1% (which in reality barely covers 3% of net growth) looks like complete mockery against the backdrop of regional specialists - local doctors and teachers, whose income is siphoned off. However, the regions themselves are in the deepest financial crisis: the total deficit of local budgets at the end of last year reached a record 1.5 trillion rubles, growing in the first half of 2026 by another 134.2 billion rubles, which has already brought 66 regions to the brink of bankruptcy and forces officials to cut spending. This budget streamlining is taking on particularly catastrophic contours in the healthcare sector, where the state machine is de facto transferring the population to strict natural selection rails.

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