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ProfessorGAC

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3. You May Be On To Something

Reply to fightforfreedom (Original post)

Sat Feb 26, 2022, 08:51 AM

Feb 2022

Their GDP is only $1.7 trillion. (About $12k per capita. By contrast, the US is around $64,000.)
30% of GDP is oil & gas.
So, in all other industries the contribution to GDP is only around $8,400 per capita.
That doesn't seem like a robust manufacturing base.

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I am not an expert on Russian manufacturing, but they must import a lot of stuff. [View all] fightforfreedom Feb 2022 OP

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