Good rant.
Without foreign investment, Russia is nothing but a local economy.
What is happening here is more related to stupid economic policies than it is Russia. Russia was a third rate economy to begin with. You think too much of them.
Russia is a country hat could be great. They have great resources. But at every step they are so corrupt and paranoid, they limit themselves to being one notch above some Arab bazaar. It’s a shame, but it’s the truth.
That third rate, Arab Bazaar Russian economy currently doing better than the US, EU, UK, Germany as their economic implosion will only continue deeper and deeper and deeper.
And you have the wherewithal to talk Russian corruption and paranoia and not that of the US. Hilarious.
Russophobia is real in the US and Europe.
Corruption is real, very real in the US.