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Quantified by global economic productivity, I agree that China and India have seen recent ascendency, but not Russia. China has failed at even developing its own native microchip industry, thus Taiwan has become a political football. We are living in a post-national world where key intermediates come from multiple countries. The Russian Federation is a petro-state that generates less than 3% of global wealth. Sure, they may have temporary disrupted the US political system, but that will run its course. The Republican/Russian cause knows it will ultimately lose because they have embraced the symbol of every other lost cause from the Confederacy to Nazi Germany.