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It's always been interesting to watch that despite a lot of common similarities, politics took a different turn in Ukraine. While Ukrainians regularly run their
by notfromhere 7y ago
It's always been interesting to watch that despite a lot of common similarities, politics took a different turn in Ukraine. While Ukrainians regularly run their politicians out of office, the same doesn't happen in Russia.
- m0zg 7y agoThat's probably why Ukraine's per-capita GDP is about one third that of Russia (itself a pretty poor country) - each new cohort of politicians has to rob the country blind again and again, and they have to do it quick before they are chased out of the office. In Russia everyone knows Putin and his cronies aren't going anywhere until Putin croaks, and dude seems to be in good health for the time being. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locations=UA https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat... https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locations=RU https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...
- notfromhere 7y agoRussia has oil, Ukraine doesn’t.
- m0zg 7y agoUkraine has natural gas as Hunter Biden will confirm.