Forget Putin's drone directed artillery, Iskander's and hypersonic missiles. Forget that after sanctions his economy has improved, and doesn't have supply chain issues because it makes its own stuff - including computer chips as we have learned. He drools and his country is backwards.
We must be paying dangerous fools like this because the people listening to him in the Pentagon are dangerous fools.
GDP is a worthless measure of snow economy nowadays.
Literally, a government prints a trillion and spends a trillion and !poof! - a trillion is added to the GDP.
Have you ever actually used an IC made by the Russians?
You rattle off things that aren’t true today for the very reasons they haven’t been true for years. The communists have always had grocery store issues. Do not kid yourself the stores in Eussia look nothing like a modern grocery store
Russia will always be great at Macho
Russia has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world.
Next question.
Define “great”...
What are the relevant attributes?
Then, the question could be examined...
Is America?
Only because of nukes.
More pworried about our great power status. Russia does not have the military might of the much larger old USSR; but Russia is making more effective use of the power that it does have, while we are abandoning our equipment and replacing our warriors with women, gays, and people in it for the money.
Russia has immense resources and potential, unfortunately it also has Russians.
Just more neocon propaganda. Calling Russia “inconsequential”? When Europe starts scrambling for overpriced gas and their economies are in ruin, let’s see how “inconsequential” they are. And when Russia sets up an alternative commodity based monetary system with China and the other BRICS+ countries, let’s see how “inconsequential” that is. The author of this article is an idiot.
Europe is withering in its own stupidity while Russia is collecting record oil revenue.
Russia is about to gain 70-80% of Ukrainian's GDP in war the Russians tried to avoid but the Biden regime was determine to start.
Does Russia have the ability to intimidate nearby states? And does Russia have influence in places far from its borders?
The answer to both questions is yes. So Russia is a great power.
Now, does Peru have the ability to intimidate nearby states? And does Peru have influence in places far from its borders?
The answer to both questions is no. So Peru is a not great power.
(No disrespect meant to Peru. Some of my best friends are Peruvians.)
Now numerous powers, Russia, China, the Globalists, and the Greens are all working to destroy Pax Americana.
The world prospered more than any other time in history under Pax Americana.
It will fall into barbarism and starvation if Pax American is destroyed (which may well happen).
Forget that after sanctions his economy has improved, and doesn’t have supply chain issues because it makes its own stuff
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Take it up with the Russian Statistical Bureau’s Industry Report for May.
Manufacturing:
Passenger Cars down 97%
Buses down 77%
Railroad Locomotives down 63%
Railroad Carriages down 52% (in part due to ball bearing shortage).
Passenger Railroad Cars down 40%
Elevators down 35%
Pumps down 30%
Electrical Motors down 50%
Glass down 61%
Household Goods down 63%
Refrigerators down 58%
This seems to indicate the contraction of the Russian GDP will be tremendous: close to 50%
Oil and Gas Revenue of The Russian Budget:
In April it was 1.9T rubles
In May was 170B rubles
In June it was 720B rubles
Prior to the war, it was 1T rubles per month. Seems to indicate the oil and gas industry is in contraction also
Gazprom (a monopoly) released its statistics:
Production and export of NG
NG production fell 10% from 280Bcm (billion cubic meters) to 250Bcm, period of Jan 1-July 15.
NG export fell by 33% from 107Bcm to 72Bcm, same period.
As for making its own stuff:
HAHAHAHA
They have to import low grade chips from China.
They have no high-grade ball bearing factories, and were relying on Sweden;
Making lithographic equipment - the Dutch and the Taiwanese cut them off, ending their dreams of making their own chips.
Russia is a third or fourth world county, getting ready to descent into the fifth by returning there economy back to the horribly failed command and control soviet model; its citizens have been told the way of life for the past 20 years is over and will not come again for 40 more.
What U.S. states have higher GDP than Russia?
California has the highest gross domestic product among U.S. states. Vermont has the lowest. Russia’s GDP would rank fourth, behind New York and ahead of Florida. Ukraine would rank 31st.Mar 4, 2022
Most of the independent military analysts I read have agreed that currently Russia would defeat the United States in a land war. Russia is clearly on the ascendency and we are now clearly...uh...
Their economy is self sufficient to a greater degree that almost any other country. They, unlike their Western adversaries, have very minimal government debt.
Their population is more satisfied with their government than their competitors’ populations are with theirs.
And their government is intelligent, competent, articulate, serious, dignified. I’d trade ours for theirs any day “and twice on Sunday.
Size does count.
How much damage they can dish out and how much they can take matters.
Is America worthy of being called a “great power” ?
We must be paying dangerous fools like this because the people listening to him in the Pentagon are dangerous fools.
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Yes, I will keep advancing the notion that the vax is rotting out the brains of of the human spies as I read this clap trap.
Unfortunately for the Falun Gong and the Epoch Times, Russia is neither Marxist Communist nor Marxist Prog Socialist, so the only option they have is to Hate Russia because Russia Ignores the Falun Gong Cult as they deserve.
How Dare Putin not give Lip Service to the Falun Gong?