xtian

Russia produces more container ships by tonnage than the US with a fraction of the population, to pick just one example of many. Before SpaceX, the US was dependent on them for rides to the ISS. They produce some of the most formidable and battle-tested military-technical systems in the world. How exactly is that a failed state? Seems like you want other people to make the same decision you did since maybe you’re unsure that it was the correct choice.

Where has it been documented? What is the evidence?

You’re right that’s what the media is saying now so we need to update our beliefs accordingly.

Sorry but I read many comments here over the past year saying that Russia will collapse soon and Ukraine will push all the way to Moscow

I didn’t make a claim, I asked how Western companies were blocked. But my evidence that Western companies are not blocked is that Apple and Microsoft operate in China. Uber operated there as well but lost to local competition. Phrenology was well known and documented also.

“Cut a deal” or maybe they followed local laws