>most populous country in Europe >has some of the most fertile soil on Earth >largest country in the world, stretching from Baltics to the Pacific >untapped mineral resources worth tens of trillions, biggest on the planet >energy superpower >largest nuclear arsenal, one of the strongest militaries in the world
>Is an aging, AIDS-infested frozen shithole run by street thugs with a GDP the size of Spain What went wrong?
The Industrial Revolution in the United States was attributed to one man Samuel Slater. An English cotton mill worker who learned that United States was badly in need of new industrial technologies that was prohibited to export by England. So he memorized as much as he could and parted England for America. He offered his services to Brown in Rhode Island and earned a fortune as well as the name “Father of American Industrial Revolution” while being called a traitor back home.
That was in the 18th century. Then came the Gilded Age that lasted from late 1800 to 1900 when European immigrants flooded to the US for better wage and living conditions. This is the time the US took the lead from the United Kingdom as the new leading developed country with new factories, railroads, coal mining, and advances in technology development.
same issue greece had, greece had 6,000 years to be powerful but USA became powerful from nothing in a couple of years since settlement.
Caleb Thompson
>Is an aging, AIDS-infested frozen shithole run by street thugs with a GDP the size of Spain I don't understand why Putin won't just outlaw abortion. I'm not a christcuck/pro-life by the way, but it would make sense to get rid of it if you are in a population crisis, no?
Justin Nelson
not enough people in Yeniseysk, Vorkuta and Petropavlosk
Eli Green
They prioritize security over economy. If you think europe is paranoid about Russia you have no idea what's going on in the mind of Russians.
Blake Wood
No you idiot
Anthony Lewis
why?
Isaiah Campbell
Gaysex?
Adrian Stewart
Russia's a shithole, but the they're GDP is "only" the size of a major European country line is stupid. Also, they're money goes further
Bentley Diaz
*their fuck it's late
Nathaniel Phillips
Hehe. You fool. You really mispelled 'their'. Your entire argument is invalid.
Noah Edwards
Putin creating a rigid and corrupt top-down autocratic system of governance that is kept alive at the cost of the country's development because it benefits the people at the top of it immensely. The fall of the Soviet Union, duh. Before that - Stalin creating a rigid top-down autocratic system of governance that was retained after his death because it benefited people at the top of it immensely, so while they shat on Stalin and disavowed his actions they kept the structures he created intact - at the cost of country's development of course, since without a paranoid dictator to keep the elites in check they could just enrich themselves to their heart's content while the country rots. Before that Russian Empire having a rigid top down autocratic system of governance that was retained for way too long at the expense of country's development because it benefited the people at the top of it immensely. Before that Mongol invasion.
Jace Anderson
anime?
Sebastian Walker
I want to marry you (male)
Aaron Martinez
Don't forget >Good education system that produces great STEM students >They all migrate overseas or become hackers because there are no opportunities
Aiden Jones
>has some of the most fertile soil on Earth >frozen shithole
Greek coherence, ladies and gentlemen
Michael Gray
Russia would unironically be saved by being occupied.
Jordan Baker
lack of infrastructure harsh weather
Jacob Campbell
Most of Russia are frozen tundra but the little arable part in Southern Russia actually have one of the most productive soil on earth Pic related. Green are the best
Same problem as with Africa. Russia's greatest weakness is that it's filled with shit people with a shit culture.
Thomas Wilson
my gramps went there during the red days to help them increase their crops because they sucked so much lol basically said the head guy only drinks every day lol literally subhumans
Aaron Long
>muh russian 'everything is corrupt and doesn't work' pity party Just fucking make a constitution like America. You retards think overthrowing the government is enough, you have to actually limit government and plan ahead. All you're doing is putting in new tyrants and complaining about them. Where's that anarchist spirit from the late 1800's? Cucked and neutered, just like most modern Russians.
Levi Sullivan
>Russia's a shithole yes t. been there
Parker Russell
Nigger, if I had to choose between modern America and modern Russia, you know my answer.
Liam Nguyen
I've been saying this and they always get butt hurt. Same thing with poland btw - I wish I could find that polish news paper where they bragged about catching up to germany in 20something kek
Samuel Butler
>make a constitution >people in charge of enforcing it decide to ignore it whenever it's convenient for them or their friends/family members/people who are rich enough Oops >just rebel dude Yeah go wrestle a tank bro, it's so easy. You're typing this from the frontlines of the anti-authoritarian riots currently happening in your country right now I presume?
Caleb Campbell
Both are equally shit and filled with retarded common folk. So no I don't know your answer.
Lincoln Perez
based take. Leave it for an uniformed amerifat like to spew ignorant shit ITT
Jackson Ross
>I don't understand why Putin won't just outlaw abortion. Because it doesn't work.
Robert Ross
too much killings, too many revolutions, country run by peasants for last 100 years
Elijah Wood
>have good crops in excess of the plan >next year the plan is increased to also include that excess as the baseline regardless of weather or anything else >your pay doesn't increase tho lmao The joys of command-administrative economy. Farmers would fucking bury the excess crops to prevent the plan from being increased.
Bentley Hall
Some is not fertile becuase it's covered by trees Hungary had terrible soil until the end of the 18th century. With modern fertilisation and agriculture methods it was made arable in 50-80 years.
Luis Moore
Unironically excessive government intervention, whether it was the meme of a planned economy under the Soviets or Putin's kleptocracy. Corruption doesn't really help either, sometimes the cops are more dangerous than the criminals they're supposed to protect you from (and in a real way, not in a HE ARRESTED A BLACK MAN, LET'S START A LYNCH MOB way).
Luke Evans
>the government ignores it whenever convenient *and the people But of course that would mean you would be at fault for your government and that doesn't fit your narrative of always being a poor little Russian who thinks life is just whatever you can make under a tyrant.
While there were leaders that became tyrannical, there was always a foundation and the status quo was restored. Rome was the same way, you're not some philosophical genius for figuring out humanity is shit, you're just a retard for deflecting one of the longest lasting government constitutions in the world.
James Walker
It looks to me like you're implying that the Empire was better in regards to it's development tendencies or treatment of people, that's just silly.
Ayden Hughes
This is my fix to russia. All resources such as oil and minerals are owned by shares of the population, everyone has equal shares and when a company wishes to extract resources for a profit they must pay the populations shares of the resources and pay rent towards the rights to the resource from the population. littering is illegal, drugs are heavily and actually enforced to be completely clean, deport all Marxist intellectuals, increase wages for infrastructure work, allow private companies to build infrastructure to turn a profit, give more local autonomy and responsibility to localities and introduce standards for each province that should be met, deal with widespread corruption with transparency of funds and taxes.
help establish copycat of the services that western countries have such as amazon, walmart, smart phones, computers, software, hardware and in general simply have the state help establish private citizens businesses and new private services such as new railway companies, road building companies etc..