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> Russian War-Budget Dominance Feeds Monetary Restraint and Home-Front Grievance

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Sustained Ukrainian deep-strikes push Moscow toward an ever-more militarized 2027 budget, entrenching inflation that forces the central bank to hold rates high and deepening a civilian economic squeeze that raises the risk of mass economic protest.

// Cascade Logic

Deep-strike attrition → higher defense/security budget share → inflation-driven rate hold + civilian squeeze → elevated protest risk despite repression.

// Causal Graph

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// Causal Links

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Persistent deep-strikes force Moscow to sustain elevated air-defense, security and reconstruction spending, hardening the militarized budget share.

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Defense-dominated fiscal expansion sustains demand-side inflation, leaving the central bank little room to ease, so it holds the key rate.

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Diverting over half the budget to war crowds out civilian spending, raising economic grievance and the probability of large protests.

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Prolonged high rates squeeze households and small businesses, intensifying the economic pain that could trigger mass protest.