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To: BobL
Bobl No one is asking you to move to Russia (although you’d be smart to do that --> I have no intention of visiting you in Russia

As I said - Putin has been bad for Russia - while GDP did initially rise in the mid 2000s due to the oil boom, it was not due to Putin's policies.

If you look at the GDP per capita of Russia - it fell from $16,000 in 2013 to $10,000 in 2020 -- and there was little change in Russia's population at that time

Even if we take that in rubles, not in USD (to discount currency fluctuations, Russia's GDP per capita fell by 16% between 2013 and 2020 -- during this same period there was eonomic stagnation, some mega projects, some fancy events like Sochi Olympics and World Cup 2018, controversial and poorly thought decisions during 2014 crisis in Ukraine, which later proved to be wrong. Economic sanctions by the West, half-hearted import substitution attempts. Unpopular pension age reform.

Since 2020, he has damaged the Russian economy irrevocably to stay in power.

As I've said before, pre-2014, Russia was winning Ukraine the same way it was winning Belarus - through soft power. There was the inevitability that the Russyski mir would absorb the two by the simple fact that people were consuming Muscowy's media.

If Putin had not invaded in 2022, then he would have won. But hubris got to him

97 posted on 04/30/2024 6:04:31 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

Again, why do you think I’m trying to convince you to move to Russia? And if you’re really not considering such, why do you give a crap as to what happens there?


105 posted on 04/30/2024 6:37:17 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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