Comparing economies in dollars only works when everyone is paying it's energy (oil and gas) in dollars. Russia is the only developed country that doesn't, de facto making the whole exercise largely pointless. What should be compared is what the Russian military is buying in rubles and compare it to the cost of similar equipment is costing the US military to create a military PPPm ratio that could yield a decent comparison. Except we can't as detailed figures are largely classified in Russia. What can be done is looking at the export market, and knowing that those are for profit exports (while domestic purchases may run at a loss, with the export profits covering part of that loss, the companies are state owned and are regularly on technical bankruptcy). This tells us they can probably buy a T-90M for the price of one track of a M1A2 SEP v3. Which suddenly makes the rubble and the Russian economy (PPPm) way way way bigger that the dumb "market conversion rate" GPD makes it appear.
It also works for commercial goods (but far less as those are transit goods import/export) which reflects on the fact that onnormal PPP weighting Russia GPD is suddenly between Japan and Germany. It's still quite far from the US but Russia doesn't have a population anywhere close to 50% of that of the US.
Jordan Harris
US shit is MASSIVELY, MASSIVELY overpriced.
Like MASSIVELY.
Honestly, given a choice of military procurement, I would focus on buying euroshit, including ruskies.
Joseph Cooper
OF ALL COUNTRIES THE USA SAYS THIS!!!
Christopher Brown
kek
in addition to massive purchasing power parity variation, something like 35 percent of russian economy is grey market and barter system.
based aussie
David Anderson
Where does the Wagner group fit into Russia's strategy?
Brody Sanchez
If a war broke out between Russia and USA (It won't, because they're both good goyim), I would bet my Germany's money on Russia winning.
William Parker
You all are fucking retards, think about what you wish for first instead of going all in brainless contrarianism. You fucking leftist sympathizer scum.
But if the west has a problem, then logically what Russia does must be the solution! Joke aside, I hope we never have to find out which side is better. Ideally we'll just have another century of each side annihilating illiterate shitskins clumsily wielding the equipment of the other side. Any real war would likely lead to a new hierarchy with China and India on top while Europe rebuilds regardless of which side comes out on top.
