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mr715

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23. 6 Billion Rubles is $14

Wed Jun 10, 2026, 06:41 PM

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Kidding obviously.

However the current exchange rate puts it at around 80 million USD, which is a rounding error in our budgets.

It is amazing to consider the size of our economy (or, even agencies like DOD) compared to Russia, with its 1000s of nukes and massive mineral resources. To say nothing of its historical and cultural legacy. Yet it is operating with, as OP points out, an economy the same size as NY State.

For all their puffed out chests and bluster, they just can't play at the NATO-West. If the US doesn't destroy the NATO-West...

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