re: I like Putin

Satanic Democrats are the enemy of civilization period no matter if one is Russian or American.

That doesn't really add up. And Russian economy has been in the shitter for some time now.

Russian foreign aid is up 10x in less than twenty years. They're filming doling out more than ever.

Um, think about 1992 as your starting point there.

Last ten years ...



This look good to you?

The Russian economy is much more diverse than it was ten years ago. The oil revenues aren't as high, and you still see the brain drain issues, but they're much less reliant on imports

If you're drawing a graph though, it needs to start with the final years of the Soviet Union. When people look at the economy, they remember the Soviet Union, they remember the disaster of the Yelstin years, the country nearly collapsed, and they remember economic revival of the 2000s.

Big countries like Russia and China are laughing at the US and other western countries like France and Germany who are commiting cultural and economic suicide by allowing mass immigration of uneducated and unskilled people from third world countries who have zero regard for their new host countries or the concept of western civilization.

Putin will eat Biden's lunch.

I can’t say I like Putin and can’t say I respect him either.

However I would love to see the citizens of Russia be able to see capitalism and thrive with rights. One of the few countries left that is much like our own. Majority white, Christian, and share some social issues. Infiltration here is from the south, infiltration there is from the south as well. Muslim and Hispanic respectively. Luckily for them they are only generation from freedom. Same as us one generation away from losing ours.

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Infiltration here is from the south, infiltration there is from the south as well. Muslim and Hispanic respectively.

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Not respectively.

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Why do you think I used all the years I could find that encapsulated post Soviet Russia? Have you taken a statistics class? Do you understand the concept of statistical power, and how power increases the larger the sample size (years)? Power increases the probability of a person not making a Type II error, which is precisely what you're doing now.

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1. This isn't a statistical problem at all. You literally took the ends of the time series as proof that the Putin economy is doing well. That's an absolute comedy show. Yes, their GDP is higher than post-collapse. If you think that's "statistical" evidence that the Putin economy is doing well the last few years, then god have mercy on any one attending the University of Utah.

2. Even if it were, you're not finding statistical significance in with either timeframe. P.S. - statistical power does something completely different than what you are trying to do here. Here's a refresher: LINK

3. The context is Putin and recent Russian economic issues. Why on earth would 10-year+ pre Putin data have relevance here? You're attempting to compare post-collapse Russian economy to now instead of recent years. You would get laughed out of any high school intro econ class.

You're "done talking to me" because you pulled together a nonsensical argument to support your premise and got called out.

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Reagan was able to bring change to Russia, ending the cold war.

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Speaking of state-run and MSM ... in the U.S. Gorbechev's role in this is understated. According to my family here he was treated similarly to previous premiers in the USSR, like a threat.

Outside of the U.S. we saw a way more western- and reform-friendly leadership in the USSR. I think that's rarely talked about here versus "tear down this wall" or whatever.