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reducesuffering on March 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The French armed forces are planning for high-inte...

> Turkey and Russia could be a problematic situation though. They're similarly sized economies, although Russia has a serious military advantage.

Russia's GDP is twice the size of Turkey. Russia is more similar to UK/France/Canada than Turkey.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

slashdev on March 30, 2021 [–]

Yes, but growing much more slowly than Turkey and with problematic demographics. This could be an issue in a couple decades.

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