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You can adjust any numbers to show anything. Russia isn't a country it's just a bunch of mafia petrodicks in a trench coat.
While that's true (speaking as a russian citizen), numbers are also true.
Unfortunately, those numbers don't convert to the happiness of ordinary Russians (and Ukrainians, ofc).
that really depends on the number, ~~non-positive ones~~ some are evaluated as false 😂
Some are even imaginary
Programmer joke flying overhead.
that’s not correct. anything that isn’t 0 is true. only 0 is false. what has the world come to
Casually spreading misinformation (for job security reasons)
ok, fair, that was inaccurate. i was primarily targeting the silly statement of "numbers being true" used as a manipulation to support the argument.
Viceversa’s point was that these numbers also have very great statistical meaning (and added zimself the significant caveat that the meaning in question is unrelated to the subject we’re discussing) and had seemingly nothing to do with Boolean logic. Viceversa’s point was that the numbers here aren’t being adjusted even though they show something different from the initial meme.
and that is the point - they don't. if you live in a poor country, you and your neighbour both make peanuts, so your labour is cheap, you may be able to buy some of your neighbour's service and vice versa (pun not intended), but you collectively can't buy shit from abroad. ppp can be tool to evaluate the domestic market, but it is useless to compare countries internationally to determine which one of them is superpower (if we reduce that question just to economics).
it indeed had nothing to do with boolean logic, that was just my jab at "true numbers".
exactly, you have repeated what i said but with a first sentence that is the opposite of what you mean. you’re just saying what Viceversa said at three times the length at which ze expressed it: the numbers show that russia has a stronger domestic market to harness for war (and thus cannot be ignored as adjusted), which does not translate into the happiness of its domestic citizens.
the original question was whether russia is superpower. russia is big country full of poor people, which is not the usual definition. unfortunately they also have the nuclear bomb, which is the only reason they can't be just laughed out of the room.
That's not the only reason though: Ukraine isn't laughing, despite not being nuclear bombed.
I don't know, for how long we as Russians and Ukrainians can endure this shit, but it's there for years now, despite several countries helping Ukraine.
the nuclear bomb is the only reason why the russians were not deleted from the ukrainian map by the world.
You have a very high opinion of the world.
The question was whether you were unfairly jabbing Viceversa, but even for this question, that is completely unrelated to whether or not it is a superpower. Russia lost its superpower gleam in the past five years not because they suddenly became superpoorer. The Soviet Union was a big country full of poor people. The Soviet Union was a superpower. Russia lost its superpower gleam because they picked a fight with a small country full of 3x poorer people and failed to steamroll them, to everyone's surprise.
Yeah, a binary number that's all 0s is what it's looking for, which is 0 in every reasonable number format. Any other number has 1s in it, so is evaluated as 1.
My state produces more than your country with 40x less land and 1/4 the people.
Sucks to suck, and your shit is a vacuum.
Don't confuse the country for its citizens, please. They're welcome here, too. Be nice. 🤗
Still Russia isn't at the very bottom of the economic rating, as you're implying.
Ukraine is feeling it in a bad way and our bloody leaders, drowning in a luxury - in a good way.
I don't think homeboy was defending Russia, no need to be rude.
its just the largest gas station, that also sells other resources on the side.
So kind of like a gas station?
Nominal GDP doesn't mean anything here. Russia and Italy are not buying their stuff from USA.
Sometimes I wonder if most people here are just illiterates.
oh italy does, because they can afford it 😂 it is the gdp adjusted per ppp that doesn't mean anything here, because who cares how much russian potatoes can a russian person buy from another russian person.
The Russian army. That's who cares. Because how many potatoes Russia can produce directly reflects how many soldiers they can keep fed on the battlefield. Nominal is absolutely not the right measure here, PPP is. In a war, what matters is how much war material can be made in Russia, by Russians, to support the Russian army. You have it exactly backwards.
yes, this is partially true, but i was commenting on "is russia a superpower?" and to that, the question is resounding no. weren't it for ownership of nukes they would be deleted from the ukranian map in a day (or rather they would not even start).
they tried for decades to convince the world they are the strongest army in the world, it turned out they are not even the strongest army in ukraine.
the ability to sustain terrorist attacks against four times smaller neighbor is not what makes you superpower.
This is moving the goalposts. The original point was that Russia isn't a superpower, and the reason that justified this was that its GDP is supposedly lower than Italy. But again, that's a poor measurement based on nominal GDP not PPP.
And while I'll admit they probably don't count as a "superpower," (though how do you even define that?), your framing of Ukraine really isn't fair. Ukraine is fighting with absolutely everything they have. Their entire population is either in uniform or supporting the war effort. Russia hasn't even instituted a draft yet. Ukraine is fighting this like it's WW2. Russia is fighting this like it's the US fighting Vietnam (and even Vietnam had a draft.) An expensive and bloody conflict to be sure, but not a total war that you mobilize the entire productive capacity of a nation to fight. If Russia was fighting with the same effort and ferocity as Ukraine, Ukraine would be steamrolled. The only thing that's saved Ukraine is that mass conscription would be political and perhaps literal suicide for Putin. But when we're talking about a superpower, we're talking about the potential power of a nation, what kind of war effort it's capable of sustaining if it puts its back into it. The Ukraine war is not a reflection of the type of effort Russia could muster in a total war.
And the idea that Russia would be driven from Ukraine in a day? I can see where that kind of hubris made sense before the Iran conflict, but now that's a downright delusional take. That's tankie level of self-delusion. Russia has a population 2/3rds larger than Iran, controls vastly more territory and resources, and has a per-capita GDP PPP 2.5x that of Iran. And look at how much trouble the US has had with just Iran. Perhaps being a superpower just isn't what it used to be in terms of military dominance. And drone technology has leveled the playing field a lot. And we've seen now that the US defense industry is just as enshittified as any other industry, prioritizing the production of small numbers of high profit margin weapons over large numbers of cheaper ones. The US simply doesn't have the production capability to produce its weapons in the numbers it needs to sustain a large war. We optimized our production chain to fight jihadis hiding in caves, and we've been caught with our pants down when facing even a modestly competent foe.
I despise the absurdity of tankies. But take care when fighting monsters that you do not become one yourself. It's just as easy to become an anti-tankie as it is to become a tankie, easier if you think about it.
no, it is not. it is you who are trying to steer the debate this whole time. russia is not a superpower. it never was. it is a failed country with nukes. period.
russia is fighting like it's ww2, including literally having to pull out the ww2 tanks out of storage, because they were the last ones that weren't destroyed. russia has geared their whole industry towards military production and still can't make it.
drafting some poor illiterate assholes, giving them 10 potatoes as a ration pack and sending them to the meatgrinder is not the definition of superpower.
there is significant difference, both political and military/logistical, between offensive and defensive war.
PPP is just as useless for a war economy heavily reliant on imports, not just because of trade but because PPP is a poor indicator for domestic arms and military costs as well, especially when salaries in the army are way higher than in the regular economy, out of necessity.
I agree, just as meaningless as GDP (PPP) in a war economy that is heavily import reliant.
In 2025, Italy imported 43B of dollars of stuff from the USA according to this: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4759.html#2025