Grapes to Pumpkins. The pretence that Russia is in anyway comparable to the US in any way is a rehash of cold war propaganda, reheated and served anew. Economically it barely compares to the UK:
- It has though a vast hinterland of untapped resources that the US covets, which is why the pretence is maintained. The US patently aren't interested in Belarus (potatoes and sugar beet...): its merely a staging post for the dissection of Russia. (oil and gas...) -Why Craig still thinks they are competing superpowers is beyond me: there's a lot of Brit Empire life-conditioning to dig your way out of, but this one's not difficult.