Russia’s economy is doomed

[johng]

35 minutes ago, rabas said:

.. no! ... wait! ... I didn't say I was in space, I was in Russia! 😋

 

Ha ha well I kinda guessed you didn't go to space.

 

I too was in Russia for a very brief ( felt like forever was glad to get home )

2 weeks  in 1989.

I remember the empty shelf's and long queues for food ,drinking too much vodka

and a Russian girl going completely bonkers at me just because I smiled at her !

    ( A social faux pas  apparently,not mentioned in my guide book )

sat on the trans Siberian express  from Moscow to Vladivostok

changing times on my watch umpteen times  the country is huuuuuge !!!

 

But anyway  it was doomed then so surely must be even "more doomed" now  MSM  says so....

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, rabas said:

But my point is not Russia bad. I admire both ways, innovation and brute force determination. My point is the human misery wrought by Russian leaders' perennial neglect of its own people. Economic doom if you will.

Always been so. The Tsar wasn't overthrown and executed for being nice to the peasants.

 

Which is in no way excusing the vile treatment of the peasants, just that it's always been that way in that unfortunate part of the planet.