“Neither have the longevity and the internal strength of the American people, who are not used to being slave-born, but are always up for surpassing ourselves.”
You are talking about the old U.S.A....
This is the New U.S.S.A., where the only thing that matters is gay sex.
Russia is now where we were at around 1955, concerning development and economic growth.
They are undertaking HUGE infrastructure projects to open up the vast, empty parts of the country, and this will have a huge, long-term effect on world economics, I believe.
Meanwhile, in America, it takes 30 years to build a third runway at O’Hare.
I think that is far too optimistic. There is a reason why Russians of any means are fleeing the country in droves. This was not true of 1950s America. Politically, they are something like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the God Father, but with a "folkish," mystical nationalism based upon the Russian people as a race. Where there is no freedom, where the human spirit is put under the chains of the state, there will be no true growth. Until the Russian people are freed from the yoke of Russia's soviet structures, they will never be able to achieve what we can, even on a bad day.