[wildcard_redneck]

"Russia has become a "petroleum state". It can afford a corrupt government because it is propped up by its production of oil, and because it has grown used to corrupt, authoritarian government for over a hundred years."

From the 1870s until 1950, nearly 80s years, America was a "petroleum state" and that led to the creation of the American middle class and unparalleled prosperity. The murderous, leftist fanatics running this country want to destroy a Russia, because it isn't globohomo and it looks to surpass the United States in wealth and power.

[Alter Kaker]

From the 1870s until 1950, nearly 80s years, America was a "petroleum state" and that led to the creation of the American middle class and unparalleled prosperity.

America was a major petroleum producer (as it is now), but petroleum was never a particularly large part of the US economy. We were primarily an industrial economy.

[Alter Kaker]

The murderous, leftist fanatics running this country want to destroy a Russia, because it isn't globohomo and it looks to surpass the United States in wealth and power.

Lol, Russia, which is in a state of demographic collapse, is going to overtake the United States? LMAO. Russia is more on track to overtake Ethiopia.

This isn't what a rising super power looks like. Even before the war, Russia, with deaths far outstripping births, was net-losing one person every 30 seconds.