You have a lot to say about Russians. Most of it stereotypical garbage. Have you ever been there? Do you know any Russians? You from Spain? It sucks big time. Wasn’t for EU drip feed it would be a basket case
Buwayas post was about Russia, the state, not the Russian people. Do re read post 26, he doesn’t comment on the Russian people
Buwayas post was about Russia, the state, not the Russian people.
Russia as a state has failed its people since the late 1800s.
Nicky set up the Duma after the disastrous 1905 Russo Japanese war. Btw, the logistical and strategic failures then are exactly the ones repeated now in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Then, in 1908, nicky felt strong enough to suspend the Duma.
Russia in the 1990s was opening up, but then Putin came.
Instead of encouraging the brainpower of his people and their industriousness, Putin exploited them.
He did the same as Chavez did, but to a potentially greater people.
Putin failed Russia
I have hired Russians. Russians, as individuals, aren’t the problem. A Russian society is quite another matter - as, for instance, is an Arab society. These places, these societies, are unreformable, even if they are drenched in money.
They will underperform in every way, due to the social dynamics of their people. This is why none of these places produces much that anyone else would want other than commodities.
Russia might have had a chance, once, back in 1914, but way too much has happened since. They were shattered, and that moment cannot be recreated. As for the Arabs, that moment passed over a thousand years ago.