Come to Ruzzia. Be sent to Ukraine. Die futile, meaningless death with no training, no weaponry, no cover, and no commander.

We promise huge sign on bonus, excellent pay, great Healthcare, and great death benefits for the unfortunate. We won't actually deliver any of that, but you will be dead so who cares!

Free bottle of vodka at signing! (We have lots of vodka, you will get that!).

He's so incredibly, tragically wrong about wages versus inflation, among other things.

Joe, try to listen: wages are a lagging indicator, which means they don't go up until inflation has already occurred. Inflation in Russia has come from the declining exchange rate for the ruble making anything made outside Russia, from ball bearings to basic foodstuffs, more expensive across the board. It can also be argued that the 16% interest rate has a lot more to do with inflationthan a rise in wages that is lagging considerably behind the inflation rate does. /rant

Also, the labor shortage in Russia is very specific. Most of the people who fled Russia and didn't go back (yes, some did) were older and trained in various professions, exactly the ones cited as experiencing the worst shortages. Guest workers are most often uneducated and relatively unskilled. Most emigres have found jobs and opened businesses in their guest countries, putting down roots. Even if Putin does us all a favor and flies out of a window tomorrow, they are unlikely to go back.

If you want the real scoop on what a clusterfuck Russia is facing, the vlogs that focus on the economy at "Inside Russia" are much better than this guy. Konstantin S. was trained as an economist in Russia, postgrad at U. of Maine. He posts from Tashkent and knows where to find information that is now illegal to publish in Russia because Putin is too fragile to take bad news.

(Funniest thing I've read in ages is Putin's fantasy that Russian women are going to go to work doing all the jobs men used to do while producing and raising eight to ten children)

rates are hurting the country? They had their second highest Covid rate about a month ago. Is Covid effecting the work force and economy?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/

Covid seems to be the gift that keeps on giving everywhere, I've been watching rates rise in parts of the US, although not so much where I am. Their vax was less effective than ours, so I wouldn't be surprised if their morbidity/mortality was higher..

isn't focusing on their citizens' health at this time, or any time, really.