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Originally Posted by Catfish
Russia has so much natural resources it is almost ridiculous.
What could this country become if it just concentrated on educating its population for some twenty to thirty years and invest the money it gets from selling resources in science and its people, instead blowing it out the window with corruption and an incompetent cleptocracy that favors a few.
Short-sighted autocratic dumbwits.
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Corruption is corrosive. It destroys everything it touches, but in Russia it has been a national past time since days of the Czars. Unless you fix that first I think the only possible result is going to be a kleptocracy in one form or other.