> if they are sitting on so much money why are they so poor and were poor all this time they're so poor they're basically manhandling the combined effort of west, not just nato, all by themselves. russians may not have iphones or prada bags or mercedez cars, but as a nation capable of standing on its ground, they're arguably the richest.  bigger economies like germany and japan would collapse in a day if they decided to go to war agaisnt half the world. even the us and china can't brag about being able to survive isolation without major social-economic reforms(they have the potential).
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