Russia is the mexico of europe

>Russia is the mexico of europe
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>Russia
>Europe

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>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
you okay buddy? maybe you should check those seizures with an epilepsy specialist

Hey comrade. Let Putin know you guys can have your side of the world and we'll have our side. The other guys aren't competent enough anymore.

So true, first hand experience.

Don't worry, you're a part of Mexico:
Latvia GDP (PPP): $25,740
Russia GDP (PPP): $25,185

Russians have big meaty asses. I rank them just below Japs in the ass-o-meter.

It seems Americans honestly do not understand basic economic principles. Here's one: when a country devalues its currency compared to other countries it becomes more competitive, stimulating the local economy. The downside is that imports become more expensive.

But hey "muhhhh devaluation haha they weak we strong!"

Retards. This is good news for Russia.

I don't get it?
You're a faggot?

I'd rather my country be Mexico of Europe that be Europe.

As if you have a choice.

I'd rather we had Russia as a neighbor and not Mexico.

I'd rather have Australia as a neighbor and not the US.

Cry more nigger.

Please stay in your shithole forever.

>Dependent on oil exports
>Weak currency against the dollar
>Good
God, you are retarded.

This isn`t economy 101 (which you failed too I bet), but the real world. There is a bit more to things here, retard.

They don't want you either, fuck off

Russia borders the US. You do know that right?

Don't insult Mexico like that

>Grain production is a source of Russian pride and joy

Bro

Russia is partly in Europe

Land border

How is that side of Russia compared to western Russia? I think it's weird never hear anything about eastern Russia but it's cool how close it actually is to us.

gib back TEZAUR, you filthy communists.

USA is Albania of Americas

>muh grain

Grain a shit

Come back when you have so much corn you don't know what to do with it

The price of oil is written down in russian law.
So oil costs a certain, constant amount of russian currency.

When oil market prices drop, thus a set amount of oil costs less of any other currency on the planet, the russian currency also follows and drops.

As part of the economic war against Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, Saudi Arabia was asked to dump its oil reserves on the market, lowering the price dramatically. This, combined with EU embargo on Russia, and with russian millionaires moving their money to foreign banks to avoid the instability, led to what you are observing.

Russian strategic reserves of cash are set to expire in 2017. Before the year is over, Russia will have ran out of money, and with nobody looking to assist them, they will have to make a deal to end the economic war with EU and its allies.

Interesting times ahead, for sure, but I wouldn't say Russia is the Mexico of Europe because:
1. 85%+ of russians say they aren't europeans when surveyed
2. Mexico produces cheap shit to sell to the USA, Russia produces nothing whatsoever, and only sells raw materials
3. Mexican economy is bad because aztecs are shit at civilization, russian economy is bad because there is a war waged on it by the european economies

Thats that, good day.

We'd rather you had hell for a neighbor, just like the USA

>Hidden
>saged
Come back when you know how to bait.

>highest iq is finland
so the mongolian/asian genes are real

Born and raised in Los Angeles here, not a day goes by that I wonder how nice it would be to have just one day without Latinos

that I don't wonder*

Russia imports fucking food. It cannot feed itself.
When the USSR collapsed and Russia lost Ukraine it lost HALF of its food production for most staple foods.

Russia imports almost all goods, because it doesn't produce anything. It doesn't make cars, electronics, computers, heavy industrial machinery it needs to mine and extract resources, medical equipment, and so on.

Russia isn't China, which just buys concrete and steel and shits out cheap goods, it is a raw material exporter and a consumer goods importer. It needs a stronger currency, else its people can't afford world traded things like phones or cars.

The asian part of Russia is hardly inhabited at all

Russian far east to Russia is what Alaska is to the 48 continental states

What are the reasons why they deliberately set the price of oil constant in Russia?

>Japan is the Mexico of Asia

HAHAHA...

oh wait, it's fucking nothing

Ironically, Russia was the worlds biggest grain producer before the Jewish revolution, and the assassination of the tzar
Fucking jews, all they did was destroy. Especially now that we know they pushed both world wars

Guaranteed value to the currency? Like gold standart but only for oil.

During the early Putin years Russia was bankrupt, and he financed his government by confiscation (read: stealing) oil companies from rich russians.
Now, many of them may have been part of organized crime, so you can sort of justify it, but it is what it is, and after that russians tend to not keep their money in Russia.
So now the government owns much of oil industry, and sets oil prices, and I guess they felt comfortable setting the currency to equal a set amount of crude oil, perhaps expecting oil prices to go up, or expecting investors to take this as a sign for russian stability and come back?

This isn't some eternal thing, it gets set to a new number every time they vote the budget. I think thats every election cycle.
But if they increase the amount of oil one unit of currency can buy, that will make the state ironically poorer, since it owns the oil. It would make people richer, but the state poorer, and Putin probably doesn't want that.
Thus far russians are happy eating propaganda instead of food, if it lasts Russia can maybe strike a deal with the EU to end the economic siege some time this year.

Also this, of course. This is the obvious one, and so self evident, that I forgot to mention it.

uff pinche culote.

y r u bullying russia I thought you wanted to be friends

THANK YOU BASED VANHANEN :DDDDD

>During the early Putin years Russia was bankrupt, and he financed his government by confiscation (read: stealing) oil companies from rich russians.
>rich russians.
(((Russians)))
Those oil companies where built by the state during the soviet era and then those oligarchs bought them at fire sale value when the soviet union crashed.

I don't like the idea of the state owning everything but infrastructure that has been built on the backs of literally millions of dead and starving Russians shouldn't just be given away for pennies on the dollars to some (((oligarchs)))

>"Bought"
Dood, all they fucking bought back then was an AKs, makarovs and a couple of meatheads to operate this equipment.

George Soros.

Its a small wonder that the asian part of Russia didn't declare independence like the Baltics and Ukraine.
How many "republics" are there? Siberia, Kamchatka, etc, that have some sort of local identity very different than Moscow and the European Russians.

Why the fuck did Russia sell Alaska.

The British Empire was about to attack Russia to conquer it, and instead of wasting resources to defend it, they sold it (practically gave it away) to their allies USA.
Imperial Russia and the USA were very tight, and the USA had pretty much zero military presence until The British Empire and France build their military facilities there to aid WWI.

So, in selling it, Russia achieved:
1. Denying it to Britain, their main enemy at the time.
2. Aiding USA, their main ally at the time.
3. Empowering a state that was no military threat to any European country.
4. Avoiding war with Britain that would probably have been lost.
5. Getting some spare cash.

Well fuck....we could have been Russian kangs n shieet.

>Dood, all they fucking bought back then was an AKs, makarovs and a couple of meatheads to operate this equipment.
So they just stole everything? Didn't even pay pocket change for it?

Ever heard of russian 90s?

Based Bulgarian giving the redpills in this thread

Yes, yes it is.

When I say "The British Empire was about to attack Russia to conquer it", I mean to conquer Alaska, not all of fucking Russia.
Also tzar is just a corruption of caesar, or emperor. The British Empire had, although he was called a king, an emperor as well. You were tzars.

American education is amazing isn't it?

>Why the fuck did Russia sell Alaska.
Because at that point it was just another huge swath of useless land full of trees and animals, something they all ready got plenty of in Siberia. The difference being that it was on the other side of some water and that their pacific navy was crap. Even if they knew about the gold and the oil they could not have defended it anyway.

Yes i know, i was just havin` a giggle m8

>Ever heard of russian 90s?

The short moment of hope and optimism, before poorly utilized foreign aid was dumped into the market, making labor and capital worthless, bringing everyone into poverty, the lack of structure and power vacuum ensuring a strong mafia develops.

I am still not sure if the USA legitimately tried to help to build up Russia as a strong state, or just drowned it in loose cash to destroy it.
Was it incompetence or malice, what do you think, comrade?

Its alright, I just like to set things straight, so random people who open the thread and only read 2 posts don't get confused.

>Ever heard of russian 90s?
Not really, i was just a kid back then so its not like i followed it on the news.

My understanding is that everything went to shit and that military officers, high official etc got bribed/black mailed to sell shit that wasn't their to sell. The only thing that went ok was the move of nukes from eastern Europe back into Russia.

No because the royalty at the time were retarded and sold Alaska to pay off gambling debts
>western education

>not have defended it anyway.

The English were considering taking it for Canada, at least the Americans paid for it.

The only problem that i think was the lack of the control over the distribution of said aid. Freedom of speech and press was nice though.

>bulgarian dumbass pretends that he knows russian economics

It was sold because Britain would have declared war over a claim they have over it.
By selling it now Britain would have to fight USA for it, which would be defended by France and Russia, while Russia would not have been defended.

Correct me where you think I am wrong, and explain why. I will correct your corrections as needed.

Does Russia need a Singapore model?

>short moment of hope and optimism,
funny how russians that lived it view it different, but what do they know eh

It's a national sport in Russia to explore old soviet buildings and factories. There are a lot of expensive things there sometimes, also it's an amazing feeling, it's like exploring ruins of some elder civilization. Some of those places stay untouched for decades, and chances are that you're the first human seeing this.

We can not be starved via economic blockade now like you did with Iraq and NK. It's nice.

I have read accounts from russians that lived it, and they insist after the USSR fell apart, very unorderly and much not as intended, people were happy.
They were celebrating, were thinking of opening a private business, the imported goods and so on.
Only later, when the economy stalled and failed, and the crime organizations took control of big business, was it obvious things won't be easy.

Also, Bulgaria lived through the same events, you must not forget.
I lived through them as well.

Oh, yeah.

As of 2015, Russia imported half of all the food eaten in it.
You are being starved right now, though mostly of cash, but also food stuffs.
Putin will settle this year, and it will probably not be a good deal he's getting, especially if the Syrian war isn't over soon.

No, you are wrong friendo
Romania is the Mexico of Europe

Romania is a growing economy exploiting the IT web apps bubble. In what way is it Mexico?
Or do you just mean the gypsies moving from Romania to all the european capitals to beg and leech welfare?

>a fucking mongol
Look at gbp, gbp ppp, average and minimum wage etc. We're slowly but surely catching up to you cunts!

Yep, all that money you are sending back from the UK is really helping.

Thats because gypsies leaving both increase average stats by not being here, and reduce other countries' average stats by going there and being useless.

Food not critical to population survival anymore.
>Only later, when the economy stalled and failed
That later came very fast. Not to mention economy was fucked up again in 1998 and Russia declared default. I don't know much about Bulgaria.
>foto from 1990

>loaf of bread in US
>3 dollars
>loaf of bread in Russia
>30 roubles ie 50 cents

Wew lad

Bulgarian how did you become so smart?

Bulgaria had the same timeline - happy people 1990-1993, unhappy people 1994-1996, out on the streets rioting and burning shit 1997, slow recovery 1998-2002, growth since 2002.

Yes, but USA bread has added value like sugar syrup and antibiotics.

I read a lot of non-fiction, basically thats it. Also I am older, nearing 30. I've had more time to wisen up than most posters here.

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>Please stay in your shithole forever
>country/ru.gif

>Russian economy is comparable to Mexico's
True. Yet you assholes still portray us as if we are one of the world's greatest threats to your existence. Although considering a bunch of farmers managed to defeat your army, your fear isn't that surprising.

You are not Russia yet.
Russia is a region of its own! REEEE

bro, you do not even understand what is russia, russia is a monster.

The Japanese don't have the equivalent of cents, 100 Yen is supposed to be approximately equivalent to $1

Glad I went to russia with 67 ruble euro

>relax bong, there's barely a diaspora of Romanians in Britain. If anything Italy and Spain is where Romanians work and send money home from! Your beef is with the poles, not us!

European Russia 1.54 million mi2
EU 1.7 million sq mi2

If there was a nationality that could usurp the Jews organization and institutions in Russia then Russia could be a very prosperous and powerful country, you just need to reoganize all the localities and capital in order for each locality to produce goods and services wanted by the people.