[Mariner]

When it comes to intrinsic wealth, Russia is likely the richest country in the world.

Water, arable land, timber, oil, gas and coal...innumerable minerals. They have it all.

That is why the west lusts for dominion over it.

[adorno]

That is why the west lusts for dominion over it.

Russia is still one of the poorest countries in the world, and per-capita are no better off than the poorest in the U.S.

When it comes to natural riches, it's all imaginary when it's not being used to enrich the people. Russia might as well be another Cuba. Nobody lusts about what Russia has, and it's Russia that lusts after whatever their neighbors have, which is why they want Ukraine and whatever other countries nearby they can take.

A country with the natural wealth you claim they have, would be the envy of the world, but, it's very far from that. Try another argument, and perhaps a real one this time.