Neither the US nor Europe are “destroying their economies”. Both depend on high productivity manufacturing and services, vast capital assets accumulated over centuries, the highest technology levels on Earth, consumer markets that are the global prize (customers are way more important than producers), etc. and etc.
It just doesnt work to play a sort of trump cards game over this.
Big, big picture is the way to go.
Bad leadership will go away and better will follow. It is a problem for a season or two and will pass. Russian leadership though - congenitally horrible. Its absurd and tragic that Russia, with all that human capital and actual capital (half of which is held abroad - why?), did not create a modern economy besides exploiting natural resources. Russia is in real terms a very low productivity economy.
In case you hadn't noticed the USA is in the process of de industrializing....
LOL!!! Keep your head in the sand Poindexter. I am not a big proponent of people who forecast economic calamity. But the signs that show us and Western Europe pointed toward a major problem are clear and unmistakable.