Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "The Kremlin has never been richer, thanks to a US strategic partner" video.

Bit like CNN
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...and the shops are full and the streets are safe.
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@BlenderGamerFreaq In Russia they actually catch criminals and punish them. And Target and Walmart are full of the processed junk which passes as food in the US.
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The Russians are just cleverer than the US "intelligence" services and analysts. Which isn't hard.
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America is headed down the same route as the Soviet Union. Miscalculation and incompetence rule.
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@BlenderGamerFreaq Visit Anna from Russia (among others) Fresh fruit and veg, unsealed in plastic, plus homebaked bread in great variety, are far more commonplace in Russian stores than in the US. And you won't find beggar/junkies trying to tap you for change on the way out either.
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@BlenderGamerFreaq three times cheaper in Russia though.
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@BlenderGamerFreaq OK for Mr Average - but what about the poor saps on minimum wage?
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@BlenderGamerFreaq Simple on paper -but this isn't a graph. It's about how ordinary people at the bottom of the pile feel about their day-to-day lives. America is screwed in this area. Russians, on the other hand, after enduring decades of horror and privation, are now enjoying lifestyles which compare very favourably with those of their US equivalents.
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@BlenderGamerFreaq You continue to be unduly influenced by doctrinaire statistics. Who defines the "poverty line"? The "quality of life index"?? What nonsense! In rural Russia many homes are without sanitation or running water. This is because they would simply freeze up in winter. Yet people go on living entirely happy lives and if they don't they can move to a city. This isn't a competition other than to point out that America is in a state of social and economic decline, whereas Russia is increasingly self-sufficient. The fact that people are surviving the sanctions blitz proves this quite clearly. As to GDP we have to realise that Russia is institutionally corrupt, and probably always will be. The black market economy is greater than the one which features in official balance sheets. We are approaching a post-American world, so get used to it. The Soviet Union collapsed with great suddenness. I firmly predict the same fate for the US, if not this decade, then certainly in the next.
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@BlenderGamerFreaq This isn't about graphs and statistics. Who defines the "poverty line"? What on earth is "quality of life index"?? Russians are now incomparably better off than they were in the 1960's whereas the reverse is true for Americans. These trends are going to continue as the US sinks deeper into debt and degeneracy while Russia joins with other independent nations in creating a world free of America's rabid commercialism.
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