How come the Russians are so powerful if their economy is smaller than Canada?

How come the Russians are so powerful if their economy is smaller than Canada?
Are the economists lying?

>literally supplying all of Europe with gas/petrol
>small economy
Le weed education

Russians ALWAYS lie.

russians are powerful goy, look at what they did to the us election!

you have to look at the purchasing power parity index not the dollar index.

China is already the world's largest economy on the PPP index. Russia is number 6.

Propaganda my dude. They control which media gets out, so only media making them look better than they are does.

Americans are actually too stupid to understand the PPP index.

Russia is relativity poor but it has a powerful military. It's sort of the new Prussia :)

who said Russia is powerful?
Russia is powerful only compare to europeans, and much less powerful compare to 56% and dogeaters

>what is price difference
Russia can't into finance, that's why Ruble is such a joke. But their real economic output is higher than what nominal GDP shows. Look at PPP for better estimation.

Plus you have to take into consideration that Russian economy has decent sized export of strategic impotance, like energy and weapons. Which actually matter in geopolitics, unlike for example huge but pretty much unimportant consumer goods export of China.

>How come the Russians are so powerful if their economy is smaller than Canada?

also, what Canada's economy is specified for? i can't remember any goods i bought which was produced from Canada.

Le economy doesn't really mean shit in a war.

>like energy and weapons.

and food.

Maple syrup I guess.

Lolwut?

99% of our country is unharvested top quality lumber, mostly we sell logs to America

Joy to the world is Canada's biggest export

Who said Russia was powerful?

It's a Regional bully that can take a few miles of Georgia and Ukraine after 10 years.

Embarrassing

you guys (or at least your media) insist on it

It's easy money desu
Our whole country is unprocessed natural resources, we'll move onto something else when we need to

saying sorry

Not so much. You mean Putin's threat about nukes? Russia has had nukes to destroy the entire earth including leaf-fags since 1950.

Russia has shit on Trump and is trying to manipulate our government sure. Trump will shit on EVERY BODY but Putin or Russia because he's terrified. But a bunch of Russian soldiers attacked American soldiers in Kurdistan and got WRECKED hard. Like Obama said, Putin is the kid who sits at the back of the class and slumps his shoulders and then will shit in your locker when you're not looking and blame it somebody else.

>Who said Russia was powerful?
>It's a Regional bully that can take a few miles of Georgia and Ukraine after 10 years.

Gotta love American faggots talking big

>Longest-running communist state in world(as far as I'm aware/care)
>Get called bad-goy and have the backbone of your economy crippled for >implying
>Still trade anyways because they need it
>Good Goys decide to cut their exports of food to you in attempt to starve you
>Get stronger national food industry instead of relying on imports, allowing you to have excess food to export for the first time in your countries history
They are pretty much isolationist in their economy at this point, which means their money is worth little despite economically being in a far better position. Just not on an individual basis because capitalism responds *very* poorly to inflation.

Virtually everything we export goes to the USA, sometimes the EU depending on what it is, and novelty/niche shit nobody really cares about.

As in it WAS the longest running*

Elites steal it all to themselves, we have billionaires yet 90% of common people are poor as fuck making ~300$/months, there is no middle class

They don't run a budget deficit. America does. Budget deficits create false economies to put political control in the hands of monsters while bankrupting citizens. You can thank your spineless, ethics free politicians for your implosion. But remember you just stood there watching, debating if an asshole is a sexual organ.

Think about it.