Dall’analisi di David Uren, The Strategist. The Ukraine conflict is exposing the massive costs that accompany a relatively small and contained war—one in which the military action is entirely confined to one of the poorest nations in Europe. Although Ukraine has a population of 45 million, the annual output of its economy before the war was just a little larger than that of New South Wales, and that’s after accounting for differences in purchasing power of the two currencies. Pre-war Ukrainian incomes were on a par with those of Paraguay or Fiji. The OECD estimates that the world economy in 2023 will be US$2.8 trillion smaller than was estimated in December 2021, before Russian troops and tanks swarmed into neighbouring Ukraine. It is a cost estimate that’s about five times the entire size of the Ukraine’s pre-war economy.
The ballooning costs of the Ukraine war | The Strategist (aspistrategist.org.au)
