Michael McFaul @McFaul
"As an economic power, Russia trails far behind the United States and China, but it is not the basket case that many Americans imagine." It has the 11th-largest economy in the world; the sixth, measured by purchasing power parity." THREAD 1/ — PolitiTweet.org
Gary Kinoshita @Garysjc
@McFaul The GDP is a direct measure of Russia ability to create power through military spending and their citizens… https://t.co/8p6M5QasxJ