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Re:Germany softens stance on curbing Russian access to SWIFT by yabatopia on Saturday February 26, 2022 @06:36PM (#30483270)
> Russia is way richer

I was surprised to learn that the GDP of Russia is barely higher than the combined GDP of Luxembourg, Belgium an the Netherlands, three relatively small EU countries. Russia is a big country, has a large population, a populous army, but is relatively poor. War is expensive.

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Re:Germany softens stance on curbing Russian access to SWIFT by aaomidi on Saturday February 26, 2022 @07:29PM (#30483851)
Measuring GDP as richness isn't really useful. Russia doesn't operate a war on USD or EUR. This is like comparing income without taking into account cost of living.

GDP is not a good measure of richness of a country in relation to how it will handle itself in a war.

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