Ukraine Crisis - Page 561

I see you didn't even read my last post clearly. When was I ever talking about Russian tech products/industry? I clearly stated that the US is indisputed in this area, with Japan coming closest. I never said anything about Russia having monster tech industry or anything. As for China, I can't name a single tech company or electronics producer in China (except Lenovo, which was literally built up by an acquisition of a subdivision of IBM). I have no idea why you're saying China is something on par with the US or even Japan when it comes to this area. They just manufacture foreign companies' products. I have absolutely nothing from actually developed from China. Just manufactures of American and Samsung companies' products. lol

In all my post, I did not state a single thing about Russian manufacturing. Not sure where you'll pulling this from. I certainly did not say this. Considering they're a service-oriented economy and can get manufactured goods for cheap like many other countries from countries with wage slavery like China, there's no need for it. The same goes for other European countries, USA, etc. which all have many things that were manufactured in places where the labor is practically free.

Russia was destroyed magnitudes more than Japan was in WW2 (sorry to correct you yet again), had communism, and had the greatest economic disaster that practically any single country experienced in the modern era (and yes, that's even with considering the Great Depression). And yet is still doing quite better than China.

And China is far behind Russia and most other Soviet bloc countries. It is terribly underdeveloped, unadvanced, and impoverished (even relatively speaking). Half of the population are rural peasants. This is even with the combination of an infinite labor source and slave wages no one else has that has attracted more investment than anywhere in history. But even a tiny country like South Korea that was among the poorest places in Asia at one point is today doing infinitely better than China, too.
Like, I used to disagree, but when people straight from China are telling me how much worse China is compared to Western Europe, Eastern Europe, USA, you name it, well, I'm inclined to agree with them.

"Any region that's controlled or influenced by Russia is bound to have an economy that cannot compete globally."
Please remind me, what region is controlled by Russia except Russia?
Or are you implying that there is there some kind of conspiracy where Russia controls the entire 3rd world?

And despite all the "bad stuff" that has happened to China, it's, quite understandably, still many leagues worse off than Russia, not better lol. I have no idea why you are stating otherwise. Even with all the optimistic assessments and comments that can be made, the Chinese economy is very often described as a "bubble". I have not heard once about the Chinese economy without it being referred to as a bubble. Sooner or later, that bubble is going to pop, making the gap between China and its "competitors" like US and various European countries a lot larger.

Also, most (as in like 95% or more) economies in the world cannot compete globally. Not even China can, except in the area of dirt-cheap, plentiful labor. With a giant population and giant investment, you'd think they'd be big somewhere else, but they aren't. That is literally all they have to offer and literally the only way they can compete. But the US, a handful of European countries, and Japan, ie. the global competitors as you put it, are only a fraction of the entire world. I don't expect a country like Russia that adopted a non-redistributive, globalized economic structure realistically not even a decade and a half ago to be a global competitor, and I never said they were. Not sure why you're implying I said this when I clearly didn't. In my last post, I actually said nothing good about Russia being good or otherwise, except that they're far better off than China and certainly India.

"China had a century of war and famine."
This actually describes Russia/USSR pretty well too, if not better. lol. I'm sorry to break it to you.
And I wouldn't say "Pfft" to an economic collapse that makes the Great Depression look like a jolly old time. FWIW, people here in the US would laugh at anyone who said "Pfft" about the Great Depression at that. With that said, I doubt most people even know what the Great Depression was heh.

Anyhow, besides attacking a couple of strawmen, I take it you agree with everything else in my last post, including the strange assertions and contradictions that I addressed as well (like putting Singapore and China on the same level, or how India was an amazing country far beyond Russia or anywhere else in Europe... LOL!).