Comments by "John Adam" (@johnadam2885) on "The Institute of Art and Ideas"
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Rifkind is a pompous British ass of the colonial era, imagining Britain is a superpower like Russia.
The efforts to denigrate Russia and under estimate its capacity comes from frustration. The claim that its GDP is only the same as Italy, or that it is a gas station is one dimensional thinking.
What matters is what is in the GDP. Russia is the world's biggest wheat producer, it has oil and gas, it is the one which has the complete nuclear fuel supply chain, it makes metals, from steel to titanium, it makes gold, it can launch satellites and knock out satellites, it has its own GPS system. Finally, it has the Oreshnik missile which travels at 11 Mach and whose impact even without explosives is equal to a meteorite hitting the earth. Italy's GDP is pasta and cheese, shoes and fashion, some cars, tourism.... It is no match for Russia.
As for the talk about China being a threat to Russia, that is wishful thinking, hoping somebody will check Russia because you cannot. China is not looking to fight, it is busy building its economy. Russia has nuclear weapons, so why would China go and pick a fight with Russia.
The west underestimated Russia, it thought it could encircle and contain Russia - and it got defeated. The rest is sour grapes. The fact is Russia brought de-dollarisation and that itself ends western hegemony. Germany and Europe are being de-industrialised, and the UK is caught sucking up to America thinking it has a special relationship, and the US is mired in its debt and de-dollarisation undermines its future power.
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