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The World Bank?

You choose to use World Bank as opposed to the more significant indicator and which most people use to measure economic health of a country?

Sorry but, picking ans choosing is not now an argument is won or settled. The 2023 figures that I linked you to is what is used to measure the stability of a country’s economy. Russia is still very insignificant, and playing with the figures is not going to change things.

And, PPP is not trustworthy because there are many significant factors which don’t favor a lot of nations.

But, even with your chart, Russia is still very small compared to the U.S. China, Japan and India. Russia is ranked slightly higher than a bunch of other smaller countries, while it’s a bigger country in population and size. Russia is a basket case. China is significant in GDP, but , it’s also a basket case, since about 90% of its population lives in dire poverty, while a huge percentage of its GDP is eaten up by the military.

Remember that, a healthy economy is not indicated by just its size.

So, the word ‘stupid’ is being bounced right back at you, because, playing with the statistics doesn’t win the argument and is also failing to face reality on the ground. Russia is a very insignificant player on the world stage, economically. A population of about 144 million means that Russians are more poor than many 3rd world countries.