Comments by "" (@Crashed131963) on "How Russia tries to take advantage of its broken trade with the West | DW News" video.

80% of Russia population lives in the west europe part of Russia were Russia's largest cities are. South Asia is not close to real Russia.
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@JACKAL747 As it stands now Russia makes less even with high oil prices,but now they must fund a long expensive war/occupation. Brazil and South Korea for the first time overtook Russia in GDP world ranking.
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Comparing a nonstop water rout with a new mixed land water rout? Ships carry much more cargo than rail and trucks and loading and unloading ships on the new land /water rout is time consuming. 3.3 Trillion GDP India is never replacing 16 Trillion GDP EU in trade.
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@graveperil2169 Plus without pipelines, gas must be changed to (LNG) Liquid Natural Gas to be transported. Both sides need terminals for that. It is why North American can not ship gas to Germany.
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Higher Order Reasoning Can't post links here but google (GDP by country 2022). Here is a copy past of World bank rankings. United States: $20.89 trillion China: $14.72 trillion Japan: $5.06 trillion Germany: $3.85 trillion United Kingdom: $2.67 trillion India: $2.66 trillion France: $2.63 trillion Italy: $1.89 trillion Canada: $1.64 trillion South Korea: $1.63 trillion Russia: $1.48 trillion Brazil: $1.44 trillion Australia: $1.32 trillion Spain: $1.28 trillion Indonesia: $1.05 trillion Brazil has moved up since. More like Russia moves down.
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