Russia still exists, it is still economically strong, weakened a bit yeah but not unrecoverable. Europe isn’t though,
Doubt. If Russia’s GDP is around the same as Italy’s, and is 20% of the total GDP of France, Germany and UK put together, I don’t see how that can be spun as “stronger than Europe”. It’s not even stronger than individual countries in Europe!
I didn’t mean to imply that it is economically stronger than Europe as a whole. My goal was to present Russia as a significant growing economy in global competition to Europe through it’s connections independent of european control. Russia has vast material resources on its own and is allying with anti-european economic independence globally. Subjugating or destroying the Russian economy would be a significant blow to this movement.
I do not mean to imply that Russia’s support for anti-imperialist movements in Africa and West Asia are entirely benevolent but it is a threat to Western imperialist economic systems.
Doubt. If Russia’s GDP is around the same as Italy’s, and is 20% of the total GDP of France, Germany and UK put together, I don’t see how that can be spun as “stronger than Europe”. It’s not even stronger than individual countries in Europe!
I didn’t mean to imply that it is economically stronger than Europe as a whole. My goal was to present Russia as a significant growing economy in global competition to Europe through it’s connections independent of european control. Russia has vast material resources on its own and is allying with anti-european economic independence globally. Subjugating or destroying the Russian economy would be a significant blow to this movement.
I do not mean to imply that Russia’s support for anti-imperialist movements in Africa and West Asia are entirely benevolent but it is a threat to Western imperialist economic systems.