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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tinpot, post: 1638443, member: 35836&quot;]Many possible answers to that question, maybe Russia learned that communism (more accurately socialism) is not effective after 70 years of so of failures. Maybe they learned that invading countries like Afghanistan is not a key to economic success <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe they learned that taking on enormous amounts of debt wasn&#039;t too intelligent, here&#039;s from an article circa 2012</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/04-06-2012/121303-russia_debt-0/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/04-06-2012/121303-russia_debt-0/" rel="nofollow">http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/04-06-2012/121303-russia_debt-0/</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">The situation with Russia today is quite acceptable - in 2011 there was 1,247 dollars of public debt for every citizen of the country.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile the debt per U.S. citizen is $52,000+ and growing rapidly. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sad to say but U.S.A. is only doing as well as it is from living off its former glory, when that comes to pass look out below, things may get ugly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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