Comments by "FactMan" (@truthseeker6116) on "The Icarus Project" channel.

@mitchyoung93 Russia is basically a third-world country with nukes. It is a tertiary producer of raw materials like any third-world country, it exports those materials to more developed countries which is nearly the entire world. Russia is a very poor country except maybe for Moscow and St Petersburg, but even there the average wage is about 500 dollars per month. Outside the main cities, the Russian population lives in poverty, 20 years ago it was abject poverty now it's just poverty. Russia could have been one of the richest and most prosperous countries in the world but the corrupt elite were to busy wondering how they could increase an empire to enslave the populations of other countries instead of concentrating on making the lives of its own population worth living. I don't just blame the Russian elite, sometimes we get the government we deserve.........
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I agree with you and thanks for the Bertrand Russell clip.
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If China is placed under the same sanctions as Russia it would collapse much sooner than Russia because it imports most of its energy and food and other resources.
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And people don't like being invaded and murdered in their own homes.
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@germanher7528 Oil at the moment is around 49 dollars per barrel, a 2-year low. Oil and gas will soon be things of the past because if we don't stop using them the Earth will die. Any countries that don't invest in renewables, even nuclear power stations, will be in serious trouble in the very near future.
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@pgpython I agree and it would not surprise me if China asked for some of the Eastern lands back, if Russia became desperate for Money.
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