Russia became the 4th largest economy in the world and overtook Japan

a reply to: Oldcarpy2
Review my edit.


And throughout the years after that war, we have killed just as many in all the criminally illegal wars we have instigated since.


The US-instigated war in Ukraine has claimed over 600,000 Ukrainian young men alone, so far. Who knows the number of killed and wounded, maimed for life the actual cost on both sides are incalculable.

Hmmmmmm, An interesting video here???

www.wionews.com...

Now, we turn our attention to the Russian economy. Is the Russian economy overheating? Likely, because the latest inflation surge has taken the Russian central bank by surprise.

Seems like some got their chips in on the side supporting a bunch of Stepan Bandera LARPers.

Send a trillion in aid. It’s not going to matter.

If anything it’ll speed up the process.

a reply to: Imhere

You really need to get over your obsession with Bandera. As if this justified Putin's War.

Any comment on the topic?

a reply to: Imhere

When Ukraine runs out of able bodies, NATO will find an excuse to send in troops. Don't underestimate the insanity of our government. It's not over by a long shot. They may get us all killed before this fiasco is finished.

The MIC is ravenous and requires daily feeding.

a reply to: charlest2

Wrong thread.

Yet half of the Russian population still uses outhouses…😂✌️

originally posted by: RussianTroll
a reply to: charlest2

Of course you can. Now Russia is massively accepting pensioners who are being kicked out by the Baltic countries simply because they are Russian. And Russians in Latvia make up more than 30% of the population. In Russia there is a social old-age pension. The older a pensioner is, the more pension he is paid each year. It is increasing. But it's small. I am younger than you, but I will also retire soon. But I'm going to work until the end. Work is life))))

As for me my friend...I'm going to retire soon as well...spend my remaining years sailing the Caribbean...or the ice floes...live off my sailboat during the winter...write and publish...perhaps even a social media channel documenting life aboard and my collected thoughts and ruminations...
Summer we will spend at our cottages on Lake Ontario...as I also write about those coming lazy days watching the Milky way birth it's twin as it reflects off the water...as those gather my gaze...to both look downward at the reflected beauty of the galactic arm...and then up into that binary...then onward to the horizon as those images meld into one fine line...become the same...much as they might resemble one another...according to the focus of my imagination and how such might impact
any reflective trails of wayward thought...

If ATS exists in that future...then I will share a tale or two and think fondly of my Russian brother...and raise a glass of Sortile'ge...or a glass of Mohito as it sweats it's condensation...and the drops run down my hand as a fine spray of wind...wave...and laughter ensnare my attention off to some other direction...some other degree or perspective...and the hull slips through the water...and the dolphins play along the bow wave...

This is the fullness of my coming days...a dream I've carried through many years...bearing the fruit of reality...as I am in the process of making realism and the dream state...one...

I will carry every conversation I have ever had with me...every turn of phrase...every considerative...introspective...image that impingement caught against the outflow of breath...and the influx of wonder...spinning their textures into a kaleidoscopic thread that I will then weave...that I will author...that I will cause to exist...that I will knit...and crochet...out of paper...and pen...and electrons of ink...where it had not found life or existence...or self...prior to my passing there...

Then my hand will again reach out to that sweat dripping glass...and raise it aloft...and think of all of you...out there...beyond the screen and these keys I love so well...and the thought might humble me a small pace of ways...

Perhaps...

But I would not wish to claim close kinship to most...although I will always fondly think of you as brother...my friend...



YouSir

originally posted by: Bluntone22
Yet half of the Russian population still uses outhouses…😂✌️

You forgot they only use shovels.

Time for the gopher Zelensky to pop his head up somewhere again begging for more billions and the kitchen sink.

a reply to: YouSir

Can I come along? You better think about sailing a little further south than that. Get below the equator, at least.

I'm moving to Patagonia.

originally posted by: charlest2
a reply to: YouSir

Can I come along?

You better think about sailing a little further south than that. Get below the equator, at least.

I'm moving to Patagonia.

I did say..."or the ice floes"...

You'd be welcome aboard any time my friend...it'll just cost you a bottle of rum...




YouSir

a reply to: RussianTroll

You're using the wrong table in your OP to illustrate your point. The table you are using is PPP, or Purchasing Power Parity. To understand the difference between the hypothetical and relative PPP and the actual GDP, check that link I put in.

Here is the actual GDP of these countries, using the correct table from the same link you used:
Link

United States 25,439,700.00
China 17,963,171.48
Japan 4,256,410.76
Germany 4,082,469.49
India 3,416,645.83
United Kingdom 3,089,072.72
France 2,779,092.24
Russian Federation 2,240,422.43
Canada 2,161,483.37
Italy 2,049,737.17
Brazil 1,920,095.78

You can confirm these numbers by going to this link or this one.

From that last link you can see that in 2024, Russia fell down to 11th place. Russia had $2.24t GDP in 2022, but $2.06t in 2024. That means that since Russia started their war in Ukraine two years ago, Russia has lost about 8.03% of their GDP.

a reply to: Mahogani

For comparison,

In 2022, the state of California, alone had a GDP of $3, 167.46 Billion.


Almost $1 billion more than the entire nation of Russia.

a reply to: Mantiss2021

And 99.8% of the population has a toilet.😎

originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: Mantiss2021

And 99.8% of the population has a toilet.😎

At least one.


Usually more than one....and that's just in our homes.


Don't forget the ones in all those Recreational Vehicles filling those Wal-Mart parking lots!

a reply to: Bluntone22

Lol.

Country/PPP/toilet access

China $35,257 (81%)
United States $24,314. (98.8%)
India $18,095 (79%)
Japan $5,874 (99.9%) - hilarious toilets too!
Russia $5,950 (80%)

Clearly, PPP is not the best indicator of how a country is doing. India does all our IT with 54% of the population having internet access.