Russia seems to be leaving the darkness while we are bound and determined to enter it.
Nope. Kleptocratic one party state Russia is regressing. The biggest country in the world with an economy the size of Italy. Soon to be the size Spain. It’s a petrostate. They have no economy to speak of outside of oil/gas because Putin’s comrades strangle it with their theft.
They sell more weapons than the rest of the world combined.