Can Russia Recover Like Germany Did After World War II?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused an estimated 500,000 casualties and significant infrastructure damage. Rebuilding Ukraine could cost half a trillion dollars, but can we make Russia pay for it? What's the optimal recovery plan to reduce tensions, and and have peace and prosperity? What does history show will result from punishing Russia for this conflict?

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4:57 Wow. It's crazy that in 1780 the Soviet Union was the second richest country in the world. That's amazing for a country that didn't exist yet

[Sptthedgt]

The allies were able to reshape government in Germany and Japan after WWII having conquered both. That was a necessary precondition to aid and recovery.
It ain't going to happen in Russia!

[johndoh]

There was a LOT of money spent after WWII in Europe with a LOT of success so it can be done, but no, those weren't "reparations". That was from the US to rebuild Europe partially to keep those countries from turning to the USSR.

[marcusaurelius]

Would love to see a video on Germany's Deindustrialization next

[Eoin-B]

Giving economic assistance to Russia as well would require regime change and occupation to ensure it. Thats what happened after WW2 and that's never going to happen now.

[midnightflare]

I'd like to point out the the idea of economic interdependency being a guarantee for peace was the reason why Russia had so much barganing power over the EU, and definitely made Putin more confident to do his little invasion. In contrast however, France and Germany had economic cooperation that was successfull. And I believe the reason was reconsiliation. A number of agreements, memorials, meetings and societal changes ensured both countries were fairly democratic and free by the time the economic interdependancy really kicked in. This shows us that societal changes must com before economic cooperation. In other words: we can't treat dictatorships the same way we treat democracies, because they do not hold the same values. In fact, their values include undermining economic partners and establishing dominance over them.

[crni_bombarder]

Recover from what? Russia lives absolutely fine

[andreaboban]

Recover from what? The current war effort is not risking Russia to default anytime soon., ,

[pepperonish]

Russia is not being destroyed in the same way ukraine is... their country/economy is still pretty similar to before the war.

[MarktYertd]

It's a challenging situation because when Germany faced significant losses, the USA provided assistance through the Marshall Plan. However, this scenario doesn't align with Russia's circumstances. Russia is not receiving aid from any country to the extent that the USA supported Germany, despite some economic support from China.

[DavidLimofLimReport]

Recover? Russia: I think we are just fine, spasibo.

[MrZlocktar]

The video is about how wishful thinking can lead to emotional damage. The comments are about how to mitigate severe emotional damage by large dose of copium.

And i am here just watching how this milk ages.

[emikomina]

as far as i know russia isn't the war torn country that was split in half like germany was.

[andreytolmachev]

I would put it another way: will Germany be able to recover as Russia after this war?

[OlegWoronin]

That map at 3:47 looks rather interesting - did I miss Central Asia joining, and the Far East leaving Russia?

[give_me_my_nick_back]

I see no similarities, for one, Germany has been pretty well developed country for the time, has had strong developments in various industries and science and well, it was completely taken over by foreign power, with the US giving them lots of support, Russia isn't getting invaded and conquered anytime soon... If anything we can at best hope for it to reform from the inside movements.

[yjerexw]

A key factor that the video missed when discussing (West) Germany or Japan's post-war economic recovery is that it was coupled with effective regime change, and that's why it worked. The US did not simply helped them in the recovery, but forced them to become democracies.
There makes no sense to help Russia recover or reorganize economically if their regime is unchanged. The economic interdependence theory works best with countries where governments want to avoid their people protesting due to economic hardships. In Russia the people's opinion is irrelevant, and the government can autonomously decide that economic hardship is acceptable in order to pursue ideological/expansionist goals.

[LOBricksAndSecrets]

"The war is redistributing Russia's wealth to poorer regions of the country"
Probably outweighed by the fact that Russia is also disproportionately drafting and recruiting from those same regions, and thus a greater percentage are becoming casualties.

[EDIT: I might not have phrased my original post correctly, but man some of you are deliberately misreading what I said, or you're just straight up lying. I'm going to find a source proving what I'm talking about, and I recommend you all do the same.]

[WtF]

To be fair, gap in russo-ukrainian demographic pyramids is 1/16 echo of WW II: it is mostly echo of the 90s now. If not for the collapse of the Soviet Union, this gap would have been hardly seen at all.

[marcobonesi]

no. Germany was devasted, but the survivors were young. The current russians are old .