RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 27, 2022 at 6:55 pm
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2022 at 6:57 pm by pocaracas.)
(March 26, 2022 at 6:55 pm)Nomad Wrote:(March 26, 2022 at 6:43 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: yet tying themselves to the west got their GDP per capita on purchase power parity basis from slightly higher than Russia’s in 1990 to about half of Russia’s just before the war.
[citation needed]
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/compare-countries/
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I threw in Hungary as the nearest EU country....nearest in culture.
Still... no reason for invasion.
(March 26, 2022 at 6:43 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: By all measures, Ukraine economic performance had been calamitous, even if we were to ignore the natural resources and soviet bequeathed infrastructure.
And why was it like that?