I don't understand how Russia is so big but so poor

Hey there vlad, how is life on the ol commie blok ?

They make some niche stuff nothing to special but we can’t buy them now.

I ordered posters from Russia, the really nice vintage ones from the USSR space age days. They were nice.

The lady that sent them from St. Petersburg literally wrote me a handwritten note saying thank you pidorashka. Apparently that means American in their language (its slang). Awesome.

what vodka? all the vodka that says they're russian are made in other countries

It isn't. Wealth is just extremely concentrated with a the oligarchs. Everybody else gets shafted. Kleptocracy. I don't understand why common Russians would ever support such a system.

They are internationally noncompetitive because they are run by kleptocratic clowns.
An export-based economy could be a HUGE success because Russia in that sense is basically like Germany (high industrialization and noncommensurate wages/benefits/unemployment) but vastly better (because wages are vastly lower).
It would be easy to be a global leader in manufacturing, software, etc if the government stopped being retarded.
100 million poor white people = ideal paradise of cheap capable labor for export.

I honestly can't remember buying any russian products either. Well, aside from the food, obviously. The last one I've bought was a big-ass blender - it was the biggest and the cheapest one I could get. Thing still works fine, for whatever it makes.

Russian Standard

This! and now we will have no connection to Russia again because of nigger Putin.

Well, alright, retarded post I've made, so I'll reiterate a bit. I obviously remember the blender, but other than that - none, and blender was years ago.

Could say the same about any country. China make everything we just slap a flag or a brand name on it

we approach their insantiy with our medical system

Ajjjj limao. Had this when was a kid

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Uh oh. Sounds exactly like Germany before WW2

This is why your economy is smaller than fucking Canada, dumbass (and this was before the crash).
Make more shit. And not just weapons.

I own a Raketa Copernicus mechanical watch
It's beautiful, but innacurate as fuck and really rough.

Just like all russian products

More and more America is becoming like this every day.

Canada is 26% tundra, Russia is about 10% tundra. Russia has a larger population than Canada and exists at an economic nexus between East and West. Canada had a larger GDP than Russia.

Look, it’s just that I’m not going to support Ukraine.

Ugh I know!
Ughhhh I know I know.

look it’s just that I’m not going to support them.

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This is impossible to build nowadays, but it could change how the plant is inhabited:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_mirror_(climate_engineering)#Sunlight_reflection/deflection

There are other more realistic solutions too.

qc was hit or miss, but if you get one that works it's pretty nice

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Ammo is the only thing I can think of. And they took it from us.

I think most of their manufactured products are for domestic production. If they stopped being in a Cold War mindset and actually modernized and integrated to Europe they'd be a powerhouse; much greater than Germany. Oligarchs are fucking poison.
Even the land from the Urals to the Western border isn't great.

They make a lot of products, we've had extreme sanctions on them for a long time so they obviously have been forced to move to raw materials. My grandfather bought a saiga-12, PERFECT quality while staying dirt cheap compared to any other firearm manufacturer. They have been banned for importation for a long time the same reason mak-90 ak's have been, nobody else can compete with the prices.

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But China doesn't “make it” in the traditional sense. Well some things but a lot of stuff they just assemble cheaply.

aluminium for example. in europe we have problems to buy it now because of the stupid sanctions. american aluminium is way more expensive. the same goes for copper.

In the states you used to be able to get sporting versions of AKs and RPKs before they got banned from import. You can still get cheap Russian ammo and interesting optics but both of those will go away soon.

Canada has a larger gdp than Russia
The only time they didn’t was when Russia was the USSR

Communism took a huge fucking toll. Look at China which is in a similar situation, better economically but still not anywhere near where it should be.