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Wonder how much they pay this guy? Russia has the best outlook for economic growth of any nation in Europe. It is very rich in resources oil, natural gas, timber, agricultural production as well as a literate tech savvy population. Freed from communism and the worst aspects of socialist central planning the economy is growing rapidly. As the standard of living improves, the birthrate is even increasing. True their political institutions are still evolving but the worst abuses of the communist dictatorship are in the past. Eventually the German-Russian trade axis will resume. Between 1870 and 1914 it was one of the world’s most dynamic. Ultimately it will evolve as the counterbalance to China.

May claims that Russia cannot possibly survive the cultural decay, corruption in government, and Islamization of the population, and points to the symptoms of decay.

Interestingly, if ya substitute "America" for "Russia" in May's diatribe, it reads just as accurately, so likewise, America’s prospects look dim.

Likewise, May doesn't mention that Russia starts from disadvantage, recovering from Soviet Communism, having 15% Muslim population, Islamic conquest and Balkinization, while America coasts on the savings of economic freedom.

Still, while preaching that "Democratic Capitalism" can defeat Communist tyranny (a falsehood of epic joke proportions), May fails to mention that America is doing everything wrong in the same battle, while lamenting that Russia is doing some things right and is moving in the right direction.

Russia may not survive, but it won't be for lack of trying.

May is just engaging in wishful thinking to make himself feel better while doing nothing to prevent the Islamofascists from flushing the toilet he is standing in.

...while Putin’s star may be rising, his country — use of the possessive pronoun is especially appropriate in this context — may be heading toward a black hole. Russia today, Berman writes, is afflicted by economic stagnation, widespread corruption, a death-spiraling birthrate, “the collapse of the Russian family and an escalating AIDS epidemic.” Rampant alcoholism and drug use round out the symptoms of what Berman sees as irreversible decay.

Those who expected Russia to transition from socialism to democratic capitalism were mistaken. Putin has built instead an “autocratic state” that has exploited the country’s raw materials making “a tiny minority of Russians wildly rich, while the vast majority of Russians are left to grapple with an environment that is deeply toxic to entrepreneurship, innovation and honest business.”

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This guy is the head of a non-profit? Has he not read the Russia’s birthrate is now higher than in the U.S.? And you can’t attribute that all to Muslims either. Further, Russia has no debt to speak of. That’s what is going to bring down Japan and much of Europe, as it has already crashed the Greek economy.

Russia’s baby uptick is mostly because of fertile Muslims. A new generation composed mostly of Dzhokars and Fatimas is not in Russia’s long-term interest, to put it mildly. And Russia’s economy is horribly undiversified. It survives as an exporter of raw materials, notably petroleum and precious metals. It’s the Congo, only with snow, nukes and a funny alphabet. Such economies always benefit an oligarchy, but the common-folk still scrabble for a living. Sad part is, too many conservatives have a man-crush on Putin. They’re crusing towards a heartbreak.