1. Is your county rich in natural recourses? 2. Do citizens of your country benefit from them?
1) >Russia's natural resources reserves are worth $75 trillion by Statista's estimate
>This amount incorporates, among other things, coal, oil, natural gas, gold, timber, and rare earth metals. >Russia holds the world's largest proved natural gas reserves at 1.32 quadrillion cubic feet, accounting for nearly 20% of the global total as of 2020. >Russia also has the second largest gold reserves at 6,800 tons, or more than 12% of global total as of 2021. >Russia was the world's third-largest crude oil producer at 12% of global supply in 2020. >Russia's proved oil reserves were the world's sixth largest at an estimated 107.8 billion barrels. >In industrial diamonds, the country accounted for a third of 2021 global production and 61% of the commodity's reserves.
we just recently found some oil and uranium reserves but we are too unstable to do anything with it as of now. Maybe in the next decade or so. Citizens will benefit hopefully.
>Coal and iron but that's about it >Have greatly in the past, but since the 60's and coal power phaseout we haven't been doing much with them. Will probably change this winter tho
Matthew Ortiz
Is that the giant fishing net you catch freighters with to rob them?
too busy blaming globohomo and HATO for their misfortunes
Isaiah Hall
Poland is one of the biggest world producer of silver and copper and has huge supplies of coal but nowadays it's troublesome to profit from it.
As for copper/silver, yes, we heavily benefit from it and it's an important contribution to our budget, especially the region where it is extracted. For coal it's complicated, generally it's crucial for our economy (electricity, heating, steel production) but often we need to subsidy its extraction.
We also have some gas reserves which cover around 25% of our annual needs.
Jaxon Reyes
Resource curse:
If the government doesnt have any significant natural resources, like Japan and Germany, the government makes money from highly educated, highly productive work force, rule of law, democratic institutions, fair elections, low corruption, government needs hospitals and universities to function.
If the government has resources, it can finance itself by simply extracting the resources. It only needs strong military/police. You dont need educated or healthy work force to extract resources. Illiterate peasants are fine. You dont need advanced industries. You do not need anything. You have the resources.
Josiah Campbell
What about Norway?
Ethan Walker
there are two and only two Russians
>iq lower then 100 believe everything that their propaganda is telling them and bootlick their current buck breaker until you die of either hunger or in some meaningless war
>iq more then 100 understand how fucked you are but you do nothing about it and become a doomer and eventually kill yourself(or just fuck off to another country)
Carson Murphy
>2) ... I don't get it
William Wood
first world country
Isaiah Ward
Norway was poor fishermen for 99% of their history. So they developed democratic institutions centuries ago. So when they discovered oil, they werent buying golden toilets for the sheikh and nothing for anyone else, they created a sovereign pension fund for all citizens.
It is very simple: if you have resources you do not need advanced economy or democratic institutions, as a government.
Jackson Green
>but you do nothing about it
>go protest >get beaten up by police >15 years in jail for insulting glorious russian military Thanks, why did i not think about doing something about it before!
