The only ones that meet the 2% are all the supposedly poor countries

At this point, a part of me thinks we’d be better rolling w Putin than the EU😂

Putin doesn’t scare me

Idk why everyone gets so mad about him

The scary thing about silicon valley is the ability they have inject their political views in to the public. The mega wealthy and big tech have over incredible power over the general population. Most people want to trust in the news or believe the first thing they hear or see.

Especially older people

They come from a time when trust in media was high

They grew up being told they could trust the news

So it’s what they do

I mean I don't particularly like Russia politically but like China is way worse

And now when their kids tell them you can’t trust the news anymore it’s very upsetting for them and hard to change

They wanna fall back on trusting it

It’s frustrating for them to lose that thing that they always had so of course it’s met with a healthy amount of denial

I think people often sweep the shit they do under the rug because they're fighting "western imperialism"

They take advantage of the trustworthy low vocabulary population, and combine that with dominion's faulty software and hardware... boom 2020.

The USSR was also a form of imperialism

How about that?

I'm not sure?

Whatever now 🤷‍♂️

If it wasn't for USSR Poland today might be almost as wealthy as Germany

I mean GDP/capita not total GDP of course

Poland has a lot of good natural advantages

Same thing with Romania

Yes

Little bit of hydrocarbon

Especially Romania

And good farmland I’m told

How about mineral wealth

If Poland had conquered Russia they be so overpowered it wouldn't be funny

I do think a lot of German success has to do with a particular culture

There was a video about this that I saw yesterday

Very specific

Imagine Russia bit with Western European system

Germans are hard working people

So no wonder there

It would be hard to explain why it is the way it is

Yes an also being well organized

In a shorthand form

But to make a long story short

~~And not having a sense of humor~~

It has alot to do with protestant work ethic