I don't think you can really do an apples-to-apples comparison of economies when one of them (Russia, in this case) has essentially decoupled from the international financial system.

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You say international financial system, I say handjobs for cash. Same thing.

while GDP is indeed fake, having lived in USSR, Ukraine and America there is a real difference as well.

perhaps a real measure of wealth and power of a nation is how many cars it has on its roads.

Russia - 57 million cars

Germany - 48 million cars

USA - 290 million

China - 415 million cars

or let's pretend EU and NATO is the same thing for car counting purposes

Ukraine = 9 mil cars

EU = 250 mil cars

US = 290 mil cars

Total = 549 mil cars

versus

Russia = 57 mil cars

China = 415 mil cars

Total = 472 mil cars

and yes in fact our cars are NOT made in China

there are very few cars sold in US that are made in China such as Polestar 2 and those are getting hit with not quite sanctions, but they do lose federal tax incentives that made in America electric cars get ...