[Krosan]

Grania! You are forgetting that the whole Russian economy is SMALLER than Mexico’s. It is not “big and mighty Russia”. It is pitiful losers ridiculing themselves by acting tough.

Mexican economy crashing would not bring on global collapse. Neither does Russian crash. They are a petrostate and a price of oil just went down.

[grania]

Krosan! It's not the size of the Russian economy, it's the maneuvering of our government's friends, the Saudis, lowering the cost of oil in order to maintain their market dominance. DC was cheerleading that because it tanked Russia's economy. Now it's a factor in tanking a lot of other economies, too.

It's the Butterfly Effect. Little changes, over a period of time, lead to huge outcomes.