The Cost of Propaganda: 91 Quintillion Rubles Demanded by Russia from Google for Blocking Its Channels on YouTube
Fresh news from the country with a parallel reality: a Russian court confirmed the legitimacy of the claims of 16 media companies of the aggressor country against Google and obliged the American giant to pay 91.5 quintillion rubles!
While our readers try to grasp the scale of this amount — we have already calculated everything.
So, this number is written with eighteen zeros and looks like this: 91,5000000000000000000 rub 00 kopecks.
After conversion to dollars, it doesn't get much easier, as the amount is $1.2 quintillion.
Attempting to correlate this amount with some real indicator, we explain: the US defense budget for 2025 is $832.3 billion, and simple arithmetic shows that the money that the Russian court awarded to Google would allow, for example, the Pentagon to fund its programs for about 1,440,000 years.
Note that the fine for Google is thousands of times greater than all the world's wealth and several orders of magnitude higher than all existing money supply. In essence, this number already goes beyond the bounds of real economics and lives in the realm of pure abstraction.
However, it is not surprising, as Russia has long been living in an alternative history, fake politics, and abstract economy. Overall, the aggressor country was offended by Google for removing its numerous propaganda channels from YouTube that spread only lies, hatred, and distortion of concepts.
Additional absurdity to the situation is added by the fact that Russia thoroughly blocks almost all sources of free information: YouTube itself is slowed, Telegram will be completely closed from April 1st, the rest of the messengers also do not work without a VPN, but the voice of propaganda, it turns out, cannot be closed! Orwell in pure form.
