> if there was a fucking sane leader in russia he would had have reduced the military and nuclear spending to economy. the issue is that russia can't compete by peaceful means i mean look at their exports, it's all raw materials and semi-finished resources. they can't build anything that could compete with western markets without massively subsidizing their exports. putin not long ago was whining about "golden billion exploiting poor russia" but throughout his 20-something years of rule he did jack shit about it, he was completely content selling oil and other raw resources, even closing some national industries that were unprofitable. look up what group b rally is. to summarize, it's completely insane rally racing. kinda like you had one of those spanish bull runs across city. except you replaced bulls with 4x4, twin turbo rally cars and made them race around villages and forests. one of prerequisites to enter this race was that you had to have something like 200-500 cars up for sale in same (in reality similar) variant to one taking the race. so they had very powerful engines hundreds of horsepower, some had awd, some had intricate boosting mechanisms with liquidcooled intercoolers, twin turbos etc and many many more what was russia exporting to germany at that time? their top export model was a fucking lada samara 2109 with 5 speed gearbox amazing
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