Russia’s Economy...LOL!

[gipper]

The American politician class, the Deep State, and the MSM want Americans to believe Russia is a fearsome boogie man, as the assholes from the deep state claimed during the impeachment fiasco. But is it?

It’s entire economy is surpassed by the NYC metro area. It’s economy is essentially oil, gas, and mining. It’s military budget is minuscule. Yet, Americans are told by the corrupt cabal to fear Putin and Russia. Could they really believe this obvious propaganda?



Congrats, Dems! You've Empowered a Pack of Paranoid Neocon Morons
By David Stockman

Congrats, Dems! You’ve Empowered a Pack of Paranoid Neocon Morons - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

The the GDP of the New York City metro area alone is about $1.8 trillion, which is well more than Russia’s 2018 GDP of $1.66 trillion. And that, in turn, is just 8% of America’s total GDP of $21.5 trillion.

Moreover, Russia’ dwarf economy is composed largely of a vast oil and gas patch; a multitude of nickel, copper, bauxite and vanadium mines; and some very large swatches of wheat fields. That’s not exactly the kind of high tech industrial platform on which a war machine capable of threatening the good folks in Lincoln NE or Worchester MA is likely to be erected.

Not surprisingly, Russia’s pint-sized economy can not support a military establishment anywhere near to that of Imperial Washington. To wit, its $61 billion of military outlays in 2018 amounted to less than 32 days of Washington’s current $750 billion of expenditures for defense.

 

[Stratford57]

World bank, “Doing business” rating 2019
Russia names 28 (comparing to 120 in 2012 and in spite of numerous sanctions) between Austria and Japan
https://www.worldbank.org/content/d...Reports/English/DB2019-report_web-version.pdf
Page 5
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Nov 18, 2019, Forbes:
For all the talk about starving Vladimir Putin and, inevitably, Russia of financial resources with sanctions on major state-run companies, Russian bonds have become a must-have. Not only in Europe where yields are nearly zero, but also among American global bond fund managers that want to get paid for holding debt.
For Wall Street, Russia Has Become ‘Bulletproof’
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Russian gold reserves are the fifth largest in the world.

Russia added 800,000 ounces of gold (24.88 tons) to reserves in February.

Russia added a record 224 tons of gold to reserves in 2017.

Since June 2015, the Central Bank of Russia has added over 600 tons of gold to reserves.
Russia Adds Another Huge Pile of Gold To its Growing Stack In February
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Deep State wants to make Russia a boogeyman for the West because Russia has becoming too attractive for the normal people and Deep State's goal is to get rid of normal people in the world and to replace them with a brainwashed biomass easy to manipulate.

 

[gipper]

The MSM won’t let the Russia narrative die, even though it’s clearly propaganda. How any American could believe Maddow after all the lies she has told, is truly very sad.

The Storms of December - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com
It is also astounding to see media shills like Rachel Maddow still carrying on hysterically about Russia. She must have cried “Russia” twenty-seven times in the ten minutes of her act I caught on Thursday night. She’s far exceeded even the paranoid raptures of the John Birch Society a half century ago when they were screaming about communists in every broom closet of America. This incessant war-cry can’t be good for the country.

 

[BluesLegend]

The MSM won’t let the Russia narrative die, even though it’s clearly propaganda.

Hell Adam Schiff stated on live tv this past week that "we are at war with Russia".

 

[gipper]

The MSM won’t let the Russia narrative die, even though it’s clearly propaganda.

Hell Adam Schiff stated on live tv this past week that "we are at war with Russia".

Sadly buggy eyes is not alone. Too many in both parties, the MSM, and the government intelligence agencies think as he does. We can only hope these morons don’t get us all killed.