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3 points ·
What’s your preferred method of determining industrial strength? Russia’s PPP is higher than their relative manufacturing output by value added or cost of goods, and they only have half the industrial CO2 output of the US. I’m not arguing one way or the other, I’m not especially familiar with these stats and such so I’m just curious about the apparent discrepancy.
8 points ·
Alright, alright, world bank says they’re the fourth largest by PPP which is still pretty modest for the guy personally bending the world to his will in my mind lmao
Putin really ought to bend these GDP numbers to his will, but I’ll cut him some slack. He’s got a lot going on now that he’s single-handedly responsible for controlling American foreign policy too.
9 points ·
Wow. You’d think the guy bending the world to his vision would lead the first or maybe second largest economy (in a weird situation) but I guess Putin’s a very humble guy and decided not to break the top 10.