As my scientific advisor used to say: "Markov has nothing to lose but his chains!"

"The cake is a lie"

The cake has a Li-ion

The cake is on fire!

Let them not eat cake

The cake is a spy

Better that you had said, “This is a triumph”

Exactly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_chain_strategy

Мехмат отзывает 500 000 своих выпускников. Причина отзыва: во втором томе Фихтенгольца на странице 187 в формуле XVIII.56 отсутствует нормирующий оператор.

I wonder - when was the last time you were in Russia to speak so decisively about the country and Russians?

Hmm Military Watch Magazine places China into "TIER ONE MILITARY POWERS" list https://militarywatchmagazine.com/forceapp/countries/

Do you have any source saying that China's military is not as strong as it appears to be?

Right behind Russia. Who would be defeated in Ukraine with a hand full decommissioned f-16s and a-10s.

Where do people from NY go to?

Back to the country. It's the cycle of life.

Where this myth about "shipping gas across Siberia is impossible" comes from? Projects like Yamal LNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamal_LNG are already operational. On top of that Chinese gas consumers are not dramatically further away than consumers in western Europe - it's only matter of 2-3 years to build a pipeline to connect them.

Can you please elaborate more about "in terms of civil liberties and all that stuff Russia is far behind"? Have you ever been to Russia?

I wonder, why e.g. S-400 then is so popular. Even Turkey, a NATO member purchases them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-400_missile_system#Turkey

Why India has signed an agreement to produce over half a million AK-203 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/deal-for-a... ?

Even if we take nominal GDP, Russian GDP is roughly 17% higher than Spanish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

If we take GDP by PPP, then it's more than twice that of Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)