In his final foreign policy speech as president, President Joe Biden summed up what he hoped to be the legacy of his administration. He boasted that he "increased America's power in every dimension," while "our adversaries and competitors are weaker."
Article doesn’t praise him for it. He’s also incorrect about making adversaries weaker. Russian shell/missile production higher than west, and growing. China is stockpiling, and advancing in tech level while depletion in west, is likely to motivate a shift to wars US can win and EU can’t defend: Greenland.
Seems like the sanctions have really hurt Russia’s economy however.
Very high GDP growth. Higher than US. Very high wages due to high military pay, and lots of military production jobs. There is inflation and high interest rates. Ruble is not amazing, but stable. There’s enough domestic demand that export sanctions doesn’t affect jobs, and Russia is self sufficient in everything essential, and benefits from China exports for tech.
This is propaganda-level praise for Russia and it is everywhere in your history.
Just because your propaganda tells you otherwise, the fucking CIA factbook makes GDP projections and records GDP growth. I didn’t explain anything hard to understand.
Cringe
It was a good article, thanks for sharing it!