Pretty much
. Nothing more hilarious than watching Westerners writing on the internet about how awesome Russia is despite never having come even a thousand kilometres near it, all the while sitting on their cushy gaming chairs that cost more than years' worth of Russian average salary
, endlessly imagining how incredible this "rightwing tradcon pure white ethnostate
" on the other end of the planet is
.
It's not only about technological stagnation, but economic one as well. The amount of Westerners who honestly believe that Russia isn't a dirt poor shithole, just because they believe it's "white" and that in their 2-dimensional thinking automatically means "rich", is ridiculous. In terms of wealth, Russia is around Jamiaca's or Iraq's level.
en.wikipedia.org
Going back to technology, it's actually almost funny.
That article was written by a Russian nationalist who openly supports the war. He is not a Russia-hating Western plant or anything. Still, this is what he had to say about Russia's robot density (the amount of industrial robots per worker.)
Since I am from Slovakia, this obviously surprised me, and I looked a bit closer at this. From the data I've seen (the data he's talking is from 2011) this was true up until very recently, when Russia finally got more industrial robots in total than we have, despite them being a
massively larger country.
Compare with the leaders:
Since Russia's rate is 6 per 10,000 and Slovakia's, according to the graph above, is 175 per 10,000, then, given that there's about 30-times as many Russians as us, that
should mean that, by 2021, they had a
bit more robots in total than we had, but honestly, I'm not sure of that
.
Compare that with China, which already overtook the US in this metric:
China’s massive investment in industrial robotics has put the country in the top ranking of robot density, surpassing the United States for the first time. The number of operational industrial robots relative to the number of workers hit 322 units per 10,000 employees in the manufacturing...
ifr.org
Add in that that is in per capita terms, remember how much larger China's population is than the US one, and then you'll realize just how much they are actually ahead of the US there.
Nice wall of sources, just as I would've done that
.
Maybe the pro-Ukraine Westerners here think so, but those of us who live in the region and in the countries bordering Ukraine, we are quite concerned about our lives
in general in this situation. Russia has never accepted the integration of our countries into the EU and NATO, and for as long as I can remember, the Russian government has always talked about us in a way that made it completely clear that they believe that they should rule over and control us, with us not having any say in our own politics. When we see Ukraine fighting, we know that if it falls, some other country in the region is destined to be the next Russian target
.
