Comments by "" (@thomasbaader6629) on "What might happen if Russia does attack Ukraine?" video.

  1.  @lvt2050  The current ruble course is totally artificial. When Russia runs out of foreign exchange reserves, the ruble will go down again.
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  2.  @Reinhard_Erlik  Nope. Russia was in decline even before the war began. Now it's going down even faster. Russia has the 11th largest economy of the world (South Korea is number 10, Italy is number 8... think about that. Even New York city alone is economically stronger than Russia). Until the end of the year, sanctions will push down Russia somewhere to number 15-20. Russia will be like Burkina Faso with nukes.
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  3. Putin wanted to make Russia a world power again. He will be remembered as the man responsible for Russia not even being a regional power any more.
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  4.  @Reinhard_Erlik  That's because you have a slave's mentality.
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  5.  @lvt2050  Yes, but unfortunately for Russia, these 31 countries who sanction it make up 60-70% of the world's economy. Russia's share is about 3%. Russia cannot win an economic war and and arms race with the west. The Soviet Union wasn't able to do it, and the SU was much stronger than Russia.
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  6.  @lvt2050  Doesn't help. Please read some articles by economics experts. Russian economy is in decline. And here's another problem: Russia's birth rate is 1.5 childen per mother (and father). That means that two people who are living now (mother and father) will be replaced by 1.5 people in the future. So the Russian population is, like the Russian economy, shrinking. It is true that the western countries are facing the same problem. The difference, however, is that Russia isn't attractive for immigrants, so immigration cannot soften up that process. Actually, during the last decades, lots of people were leaving Russia. It's getting worse since the war started: another 200,000 Russians left the country. Most of them are young people who are really needed (they are the ones who will get children after all). And every young soldier who dies in the war with Ukraine before he started a family makes it worse. Russia won't have enough soldiers for large scale wars in the future. And that's not all, of course. The shrinking population will damage the economy a lot. Whatever Russia's role in the future will be, it isn't that of a great power (and certainly not of a world power).
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