>>9778369>The only "strong" thing is their oil and gas, and that has proven again and again to be volatileWith the price of oil where it is now, and has been for the last 5 years, the 2014 "we love Russia" party seem like a loooong time ago even from a US perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgij9irxfKYAs for that post-Soviet fire sale, Putin would never admit how much he owes to US economic "experts" flown in with all sorts of useful advice on how to "privatize" everything, including ultimately the state. Thus time's whirligig has weirdly calculated results.
