I looked at Russia’s 2025 budget figures, and what I found is nothing short of a disaster in the making. The numbers I compiled in the table reveal the harsh reality: Russia is on the brink of financial collapse due to its reckless military spending and collapsing revenue base. Let’s break it down. The 2025 budget plan was for a 5% increase in spending, a total of 42,297 billion rubles. But in the first four months alone, they’ve already spent 15,499 billion rubles — an increase of 21%.