Standard of Living has to do with the length of time a nation subscribes to civilized capitalism, not amount of natural resources.
You criticize the Saudi dilly-dalliances when America does it, but when Russia does it and worse, it's fine.
Horse manure, I never said it was fine, just that we do the same.
And you did not address Russia's support of Maduro, Ortega, and Kim Jong Un.
No point, we support undesirable criminal foreigners that irritate Russia, Putin can likewise support undesirable criminal foreigners that irritate US.
And Russians are not responsible for any of the ways their country continues to falter domestically and stagnate economically? They'd be better off if they didn't open themselves up to foreign investment?
Russians will choose whom they do business with if they have the power to do so, just like Americans do.
So far Russians have chosen those YOU don't like and rejected those you do. Sorry for the Butt Hurt.
That's no excuse to promote nostalgia and whitewashing of Soviet atrocities as cultural rallying points.
Putin can promote anything he wants to unify the Russian people if they will accept it, just as Obama and the Rats can promote anything they want to divide America. Interestingly, your choice of issues reflects Obama's.
...Putin would be bossing Netanyahu and calling all the shots as he had been doing for YEARS, and not the other way around.
Now that is just ludicrous, Putin has never bossed Bibi around, ever.
Must you be so vulgar? You say something like that and I can't even process whatever else you write, even though I want to take it it into serious consideration and respond respectfully.