Russia, based on purchasing power parity (PPP), is the SIXTH economy in the world, right behind Germany and ahead of both the UK and France. Russia’s “hard" economy is similar to the US. Steel production is about the same. Intellectual capacity though is VASTLY SUPERIOR. Russia has roughly the same number of engineers as the US - but they are better educated. The Mossad attributes Israel's economic miracle in creating a Silicon Valley equivalent to a base of a million Russian immigrants. This Israeli Silicon Valley happens to be a key asset of the US military-industrial complex - or MICIMATT, as indelibly named by Ray McGovern. NATOstan media constantly barking that Russia’s GDP is the size of California or Texas is nonsense. PPP is what really counts.

That and Russia's superior engineers is why their weapons are at least 20 YEARS ahead of the US. Just ask Andrei Martyanov - or read his books. The Empire of Lies has NO defensive missiles worthy of the name. And NO equivalents to Mr. Zircon and Mr. Sarmat. The NATOstan sphere simply cannot win a war, any war against Russia for this reason alone. The current mantra in NATOstan that Ukraine is defeating Russia does not even qualify as a lousy joke. The corrupt UkroNazi system is kaput. The Pentagon knows it. The CIA cannot possibly admit it. What the Empire of Lies has sort of won, so far, is a media “victory" for the UkroNazis, not a military victory. Reality - as in facts on the ground - will soon become apparent even to the NATOstan-wide LugenPresse.