Comments by "surely you joke, mein failüre" (@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531) on "Russian Economy - Malnutrition Hits Mother Russia" video.

  1. Old Russian folk saying - "The tallest blade of grass is the first to get cut." And don't even get me into the childrens games, like Blind Cat, that are designed to inculcate the thinking patterns of learned helplessness.
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  2.  @сырпошехонский  There are also the considerations of distance to market; transportation & infrastructure costs required to deliver to market; etc. As Zeihan notes, areas of Russia are so agriculturally unproductive that they have only one partially-decent crop per year, and are too economically unproductive to afford to build good roads.
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  3. Perfect and succinct ;) He stands head and shoulders above his surroundings.
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  4.  ForageGardener  You may wish to check out the World Population Review page on that subject (homelessness rate) as well as the wiki page. Sorting by high values, homeless rate per 10K population, the following countries rank higher than the USA: Germany, Latvia, Sweden, Greece, Luxembourg, Australia, France, UK, Canada, Turkey, New Zealand, Mexico. As an interesting note, Mexico is ranked #3 at 1,111 homeless per 10K (11%), Canada is ranked #36 at 62.5 per 10K (0.625%), and the US is ranked #55 at 19.5 per 10K (0.195%).
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  5. "Almost NO action stands alone" - you mean?
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  6. "Food is like dark humor - not everyone gets it." -- meme Stalin
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