The Price of War for the Russian Federation

Modern-day St Petersburg, via Twitter

Wars are not cheap. Western economies know it. The recent war on terror was very expensive, even if most Americans did not feel it. According to Brown University:

A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the U.S. an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people.