“We are actually worse off now. Russia is addressing its demographics, we are not.”
To put it in perspective, America at her worst is better than Russia is now. You can go back as far as the first world war and this is true - close to a hundred years.
That hundred year gap isn’t going to get fixed in a year. It would take another 30 years of recovery for Russia to even get close to America, maybe 50. And that’s assuming America stays as she is today and further improvements in Russia.
Good stuff.
At this point Russia isn’t “chasing” America. Russia is traveling the opposite direction on that highway form Amecica. If Russia and America maintain their respective speeds and directions then we will pass each other soon.