>>515819541
from a purely pragmatic point of view
russia invading ukraine, might be the only net positive beneficial war in living memory
Russian GDP is about 2 trillion
Eastern ukrainian natural resources are about $9 trillion dollars raw. But when you consider the industrilization and consumerization of the region biproduct from developement, i think easily this figure increases to around $20 trillion over the long run
Essentially russia has traded a trillion dollars or so in net cost for $20 trillion in long term value, or 10x their GDP
America for example, got almost notihng from the middle east, because teh GDP is so high. A country pdouces net $500 million a year in oil profits, but american gdp is like $30 trillion its irrelevent
But I do think russia would be better off bannign abortion and birth control and focusing on doubling their population size, regardless
also im not russian and my opinion isnt reflect of what they do