Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman ↗

Deleted No

Hibernated No

Last Checked April 18, 2022

Created

Sat Mar 05 12:17:06 +0000 2022

Likes

4,757

Retweets

713

Source

Twitter Web App

View Raw Data

JSON Data

View on Twitter

Likely Available

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

So if you imagine that China and Russia will somehow form a new authoritarian Axis, Russia would be overwhelmingly the junior partner. In fact, Russia is far less powerful relative to China than Mussolini's Italy was relative to Germany 6/ https://t.co/Mb2sOeAQ9a — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 5, 2022

Preceded By

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

And there's one more point, which I haven't seen people making: the huge imbalance between the national economies. Russia is really tiny compared with China 5/ https://t.co/moMKgfAEa3 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 5, 2022

Followed By

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The only thing Russia might have had to offset this imbalance was its reputation for having a highly effective military machine. That reputation has already been lost in the Ukrainian mud 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 5, 2022