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Russia is getting one heck of bang for its buck. Its a declining regional power with a GDP the size of Texas [1,2] who our media blames all of our problems on.

Russia is getting one heck of bang for its buck. Its a declining regional power with a GDP the size of Texas [1,2] who our media blames all of our problems on. Imagine if a comparable adversary decided to mess with the United States. [1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Russia/United-States/Economy/table https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Russia/Uni... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...

kalimoxto 6y ago
Giving you the benefit of the doubt: you've conflated the Russian yearly budget with Maryland's GDP. Russian GDP of 2 Trillion would be the second in the US, between California and Texas
- justinzollars 6y ago
  corrected. thx
sebmellen 6y ago
A better (and more accurate) comparison is that Russia has a lower GDP than Italy: https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/russia/italy https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/russia/italy.
disown 6y ago
> Its a declining regional power It's a declining global power, but a rising regional power. It's nowhere what it was in the soviet days, but it certainly has been growing since the post 90s collapse. > with a GDP the size of Texas [1,2] That's only on a nominal basis, but on a PPP basis, they are the 6th largest economy in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
- justinzollars 6y ago
  > but a rising regional power. It's not rising in any sense.
  - pengaru 6y ago
    Crimea?
    - justinzollars 6y ago
      That example is like the United States losing all of California, but taking back its Navy base in San Diego.