Posted on 07/17/2022 3:00:06 PM PDT by AndyJackson
Is Russia worthy of being called a “great power,” let alone a superpower? Not to kick someone when they’re down, but it’s difficult to argue that Vladimir Putin represents anything other than a middling regional state, albeit the largest country in the world and one with nuclear weapons.
In the first place, until the Russo-Ukraine War, consider how irrelevant and inconsequential Russia was. For the most part, regarding international relations, Russia scarcely mattered. Moscow has nary a footprint in the Middle East (mainly Syria) and is nonexistent in Asia and other parts of the world. Russia has lost influence in India, Venezuela, Africa, and even North Korea.
Russia is barely a developed country. The most generous economic data gave the country a GDP of around $4.4 trillion in 2020, putting it behind Canada and South Korea, and barely ahead of Brazil and Mexico....
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
You seem to have a ton of statistics but can’t supply a simple link to the source. When I google your sources they don’t have those statistics.
But hey just call me a troll when I ask for citation. Sorta using the libs playbook now huh?
Hows many times do I have to tell you where to go? I am not your personal search engine, nor am I required to keep ‘links’. if you cannot find the Russian Bureau of Statistics, that’s your problem - check your internet connection.
That you keep harassing me on the same subject, makes you a troll.
‘Russian Bureau of Statistics” doesn’t exist Chucky...
Now Federal Service for State Statistics does exist but however I can’t seem to find your stats there. So maybe since you have all these numbers you would kindly share the link to what you keep copying and pasting everywhere on FR? Or just decline to do that and call me a troll...
Dear chunky
Russian Bureau of Statistics:
That’s the name I transcribed from WiU - its just an Anglicization of one way to translate a Russian name. So stick it and go troll someone else.
Maybe that you are in the US they don’t want you to have them - you could write a nice letter to them .
Yep, typical. Post stats and numbers but can’t share the citations. Typical Leftist tactics. So why don’t you “stick it”. And maybe realize I’m not in the States. And still can’t find your numbers. But hey toss those numbers around Chucky... /eyeroll
Best part. You give me “Russian Bureau of Statistics” and tell me to look it up. Then when I let you know it doesn’t exist you come up with some BS that it’s a translation blah blah blah. Just give us all the link where you get your statistics from and make this crap easy... WTF is the issue with sharing your secret pot of knowledge?
One more peep out of you on this and report you for continued harassment
Oh Nooooo.... Lol!
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