Comment by rvnx
11 hours ago
Must be a misunderstanding
1) Post-soviet countries are doing amazingly well (Poland, Baltics, etc) and very fast growing + healthy (low criminality, etc)
2) The "Russia is weak" thing; it is vastly exaggerated because it is 4 years that we hear that "Russia is on the verge of collapse" but they still manage to handle a very high intensity war against the whole West almost alone.
3) China is not a country lagging behind others at all. It is said in some schoolbooks but it is a big lie that is 0% true now.
> 2) The "Russia is weak" thing; it is vastly exaggerated because it is 4 years that we hear that "Russia is on the verge of collapse" but they still manage to handle a very high intensity war against the whole West almost alone.
It's nearly impossible to bankrupt huge country like Russia. Unless there's civil unrest (or west grows balls to throw enough of resources to move the needle), they can continue the war for decades.
What Russia is doing is each week borrowing more and more from the future and screwing up next generations on a huge scale by destroying it's non-military industrial base, isolating economy from the world and killing hundreds of thousands of young man who could've spent decades contributing to the economy/demographics.
Ukraine is "the whole of the west", interesting? Even the Russian propaganda can't magic up a serious intervention on Ukraine's behalf by western countries. Europeans have been scared to do anything significant, and Trump cut off any real support from the US.
Russia somehow fucked up the initial invasion involving driving a load of preprepared amour across an open border, and have been shredded by FPV drones ever since.