[adorno]

Closer to 4 times, per PPP, and perhaps if we had used the RIGHT data, we wouldn’t be getting our asses kicked right now.

28 trillion vs 2 trillion, is 14 times as much. Your '4 times' is wishful thinking, but still, many times more than Russia.

Russia Annual Household Income per Capita reached 7,082.736 USD in Dec 2023, compared with the previous value of 7,938.808 USD in Dec 2022. Compare that with the U.S. per capita of almost 78,000. Not even close!

Russia is a third-world economy by any measure. Most people there live in poverty. If Russia was a country sharing a border with the U.S., most people would have left and come to the U.S.

[BobL]

“Your ‘4 times’ is wishful thinking, but still, many times more than Russia.”

You can use whatever numbers make you guys feel better, but I’ll stick with World Bank. And if your fantasy about the size of the Russian economy were actually true (LOL), it doesn’t explain why Russia TOTALLY KICKED ASS economically, when you guys promised a ‘collapse’.

And that’s what really sucks, bad information leads to stupid decisions. If you used the proper numbers, would you guys have even started the Ukraine War if you knew it would lead to the West getting SPANKED? Sadly, I think the answer is yes.