Putin’s Russia is a poor, drunk soccer hooligan

Boston Globe ^ | 06-22-2016 | Scott Gilmore

[Joe Boucher]

oh nooo,
Putin says he is going to remake the Russian Military to be bigger, stronger, more potent than ever.
Course he has NO way to pay for any of it. Snicker.

[AdmSmith]

Russian export in 2012 was $524,564,991,000.
Top ten breakdown:
Mineral fuels including oil: $375,423,947,000 (71.6% of total exports)
Iron and steel: $22,601,664,000 (4.3%)
Fertilizers: $11,176,846,000 (2.1%)
Inorganic chemicals: $7,835,699,000 (1.5%)
Machinery: $7,609,061,000 (1.5%)
Aluminum: $7,281,329,000 (1.4%)
Wood: $6,731,569,000 (1.3%)
Cereals: $6,246,547,000 (1.2%)
Copper: $5,787,339,000 (1.1%)
Organic chemicals: $4,516,890,000 (0.9%)

http://www.worldstopexports.com/russias-top-10-exports/2350

This is a typical third world export mix heavily dependent on raw materials.

Compare this to South Korea with a total export of $548.8 billion in 2012 (i.e. larger than Russia)
Top ten breakdown:
Electronic equipment: $119,084,386,000 (21.7% of total exports)
Vehicles: $70,074,094,000 (12.8%)
Machinery: $58,979,883,000 (10.8%)
Mineral fuels including oil: $57,492,603,000 (10.5%)
Ships, boats and other floating structures: $37,828,429,000 (6.9%)
Optical, technical and medical apparatus: $37,611,611,000 (6.9%)
Plastics: $28,381,150,000 (5.2%)
Iron and steel: $25,375,017,000 (4.6%)
Organic chemicals: $23,284,736,000 (4.3%)
Iron or steel products: $12,467,431,000 (2.3%)

http://www.worldstopexports.com/south-koreas-top-10-exports/2302

The Russians do not know(?) that their export, without the raw materials, is only in the order of $50 billion !

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3136939/posts?page=23#23

That was a few years ago, the present figures for Russia is even worse.

[SunkenCiv]

Right, the same thing goes when they ship advanced fighters and build Kalishnikov factories in Venezuela. Russia has been, is, and for some time will be our enemy.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

China concerns me a lot more than Russia.
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The second the US attacks Russia(Syria), the Chinese attack the US.

The US can’t attack and win against either country, and they sure can’t simultaneously fight both.

[cloudmountain]

Sad for Russia.
My husband always thought that the country was run by thugs. We went there about eight years ago and were NOT impressed.
My mother went there, on her own, in 1973. It was pretty bad then, VERY USSR.

[AdmSmith]

It is very depressing, especially in the countryside.

[cynwoody]

Bold faced lie. The Russian economy is nearly twice South Korea’s.

South Korean GDP per capita: $25,977

Russian GDP per capita: $14,612

US GDP per capita: $53,042

See the list.

[cynwoody]

LOL. Dropping bombs on 7th century animals does not make a world power.

No, but their willingness to take out the trash is commendable.

By comparison, the Obama Regime is utterly worthless.

Supposedly, Zero didn't want to bomb ISIS's oil convoys because the fires would contribute to global warming. That's pathetic enough. But the actual reason was that disrupting ISIS's oil exports would dent the income of his buddy Erdoğan the Turkish sand nazi.

[daniel1212]

Consider the source. The Globe is one that published propaganda which would have us believe that the military itself (as well as everything from child discipline to traditional morality) is hardly necessary.

[AdmSmith]

Really?

Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime negotiated deals with the Islamic State’s oil tycoon that at one point contributed up to 72% of the militant group’s profit from natural resources,

http://www.businessinsider.com/assad-oil-isis-2016-4?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

http://www.newsweek.com/isis-oil-deals-assad-regime-revealed-us-special-forces-raid-452426

[daniel1212]

And our military spending compared to the rest of the world looks pretty overwhelming.

When considering just total spending for 2014, the U.S. spent more on its military than the next 10 countries combined (2015 was similar). However, when compared to the gross domestic product, or GDP, the U.S. was only #4 in military spending for 2014.[1][4] Below we look at official government spending on military, private contracts, the military industrial complex and Eisenhower, Citizens United, all the jobs created by the military and other benefits, and a host of other related topics that put America’s military spending in perspective. http://factmyth.com/factoids/us-spends-more-on-military-than-any-country/

At 4% of GDP U.S. spending on defense is tied for 8th world wide. And in a historical context it is far below average. Throughout the 1960s the U.S. spent almost 9% of GDP on defense and even during President Ronald Reagan’s defense build up, military spending topped out at 6%. Considering that the U.S. is actively fighting two wars, if anything this amount is too low. Heritage fellow Mackenzie Eaglen details how President Barack Obama’s most recent budget proposals fail to protect the core defense budget here. http://dailysignal.com/2010/04/05/how-does-u-s-defense-spending-compare-with-other-countries/

[sagar]

““CIA World Factbook, “

There’s your problem. Not a reliable source.”

Could you tell where did YOU get your figures before blaming others for using an extensive legit source such as the World Factbook.

[CodeToad]

“extensive legit source such as the World Factbook.”

You wouldn’t know a fact If it bit you in the ass.

[sagar]

So, what is your source? cmon genius, show your source.

[AdmSmith]

Recently, Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate. This vital legislation puts American resources towards promoting an independent press in countries that are vulnerable to foreign disinformation, supporting students and community leaders “from populations and countries deemed vulnerable to foreign propaganda and disinformation campaigns.”

http://libertygeorgia.stfi.re/campaigns/counter-foreign-government-influence-act/

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2692/text

[Toddsterpatriot]

Putin whispered it into his ear.

[cloudmountain]

Russia has the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear warheads.
That is all that matters.

I have no doubt of that.
However, I DOUBT that they all "work" as "maintenance" is very expensive. People often put it off...."deferred maintenance," is, I think, the term.

[cloudmountain]

I heard the sanctions are even slowing down Putin’s theft.

:o) GOOD one.

[cloudmountain]

Apparently the poor drunk Russian hooligans build better rocket engines than the United States...go figure.

If that were so then the USSR would have gone to the moon first. Oh, I forgot, they never did get to the moon.
But WE did.

Oh that's right, we did it TWICE.

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No, I forgot. We did it THREE times.

[cloudmountain]

I’m more concerned about a certain islammy theocracy with nukular weapons in their hands.

The King of Saudi Arabia has enough POCKET change to buy all the nuclear weapons he might want.

Why would he want to do that? He has more money than God anyway. No blasphemy intended, just making a point.

Besides, WHY would he want to make enemies with the West? The West is his biggest petroleum and natural gas client.

Now that the King personally owns all the petroleum and natural gas in the KSA, HE collects all the revenues. Those would be $1,000,000,000 [ONE BILLION] every two and a half days...and that was 1983 money.

Yikes!