Lots of poorly managed resources in Russia thanks to Feudalism, the Bolsheviks, Christian persecution, a fake, idolatry-based church, an overbearing state, multiple world wars and the rampant corruption and personal abuse they all bring.
We could do it better. A new set of educated, mercantalist, Western style Boyars and Russia will return to it’s 19th Century leadership example.
For centuaries, Russia was ruled by a Czar, with a nobility, and vast numbers of serfs.
Today Russia has regressed to the mean.
Vladimir Putin is accepted and honored as the Czar, the oligarchs are the same nobility that actually run every day life and the present population are still the serfs that live everyday and actually get things done.
Russians are most comfortable with the Czar, nobility, serf condition. All in Russia have allowed the old system to re evolve. It’s in their bones, perhaps even there genes