eli5 – Russia has an economy smaller than Canada or Italy. How does it continue to be a threatening, great power without going bankrupt?
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Because its commodities are valuable, its energy supply provides political and economic leverage over the EU and its not exactly a free market so takes what it needs to get things done. Russia has invested heavily in espionage and cyber warfare/cyber corruption both massively state sponsored. Also, its strategic locations span the entire northern hemisphere and it has lots of boots/metal on the ground.
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