Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Is Russia's Economy about to Collapse?" video.

@cin806 There is little comparison and this has happened before. US recessions after the Great Depression kickstarted modern labor protections have been dead easy by comparison. The trouble with Americans who never leave the place is they imagine we have it bad when a "bad" day in the US is often heavenly compared to most of the world outside modern industrialized nations (Russia is not really either, even at the height of its heavy industry Soviet leaders had to almost completely sacrifice consumer goods and quality of life.) Today the Russian Federation (nothing like the USSR Putin wants to cosplay) doesn't have the Warsaw Pact and Ukraine (the old industrial heart of the USSR) to carry it. It will work until it doesn't, but structural flaws of reliance on resource extraction (the US does not and US manufacturing is enormous, just not a lot of consumer crap) the oligarchs prefer because it's easy to grift is deadly. Russia had the educated worker base to be another China but leadership robbed the ignorant public blind and will do so forever as historically normal.
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