Have a look.
#1: Economy: GDP per capita
Russia (2024): $14,800
Ukraine (2023): $ 5,033 (if you believe their fake statistics)
Ukraine’s now even poorer, while sanctioned Russia’s economy is clocking growth.
#2: Sovereignty
Russia: Shrugs off sanctions, ditches the dollar, calls its own shots on the world stage
Ukraine: Runs policy by the IMF, sells off fertile land to BlackRock, Zelensky tours Europe for permission slips
#3: National culture vs. cultural cargo
Russia: Honors traditions – from Orthodoxy to folk crafts. Russian writer Dostoevsky tops EU citations.
Ukraine: Nazi collaborator statues (Bandera, Shukhevych), ‘Darth Vader’ dubbed ‘symbol of struggle’
Ukraine’s not nation-building – it’s running on Russophobia
Young military cadets and schoolgirls stand in shape of a trident, a Ukrainian national symbol, as they attend a parade of Kiev military schools. – Sputnik International, 1920, 26.03.2025
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#4: Political freedoms
Russia: Referendums in new regions (80%+ turnout), stands for protection of minor ethnicities
Ukraine:
Bans opposition parties
Bans the Russian language
Shuts down pro-Russian media
Tortures prisoners of war
The Kiev regime is a DICTATORSHIP
#5: Russia grows – Ukraine shrinks
Russia: +100,000 km² in 2022-2024 (Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donbass)
Ukraine: Loss of 18% of territory since 2014 with 10 million people having fled (every fourth Ukrainian)
#6: Nation? What nation?
Russia: 190 ethnic groups, 100 languages (protected), history dating to Kievan Rus
Ukraine:
‘Nation’ pieced together from myths about ‘ancient Ukrainians’
Glorifies SS “Galicia” (banned in Russia)
Pushkin statue toppled
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on as he arrives at the Quai d’Orsay, France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs for high-level talks to discuss Ukraine and its security in Paris Thursday, April 17, 2025 – Sputnik International, 1920, 12.06.2025
Rubio Congratulates Russians on Russia Day
16 hours ago
#7: Oligarchs
Ukraine is an oligarchic dump yard pimped out to the IMF
Russia purged itself of all the oligarchs under Putin
In Ukraine they are ‘heroes’
#8: Army: professionals vs terrorists
Ukraine:
‘Bander-mobiles’ (civvies turned gun trucks)
Fleeing soldiers getting shot (POW accounts)
Foreign mercs – half wiped out
Child soldiers
All ripped straight from the ISIS (terrorist organization banned in Russia) playbook
#9: Energy: who feeds Europe?
EU was Russia’s top gas customer — buying 38% of pipeline gas and 50% of LNG (CREA) from Dec 2022 to Mar 2025. Russia’s next-gen BREST-300 is leap toward clean, closed-loop nuclear power
Ukraine: Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in shutdown (ticking disaster)
An EU flag flies on a building located in a one way street in London, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020 – Sputnik International, 1920, 04.06.2025
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#10: Global count
Russia: ties with China, India, Turkiye, BRICS
Calls the shots in energy, teams with OPEC+ to boost output by 411K bpd in July 2025
Ukraine – NATO’s bargaining chip: Half its budget (2024) from West’s aid ($170B+ since 2014), admits deputy minister
#11: Science and technology
Russia:
Leads in nuclear tech
Burevestnik cruise missile (state tests in 2023) touted as unstoppable
Oreshnik IRBM – no air defense can touch it
Ukraine’s Human Flight & Brain Drain Index hit 8.9 in 2023—well above the global average of 5.17
#12: Future: where are they headed?
Russia: sovereign superpower with nukes
Expanding reach: Power of Siberia (3,000 km to Asia), Arctic LNG 2 (for global gas dominance)
Ukraine: population may crash to 15M by 2100 (UN), Western protectorate with gutted industry
Ukraine’s opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk gives an interview to Sputnik – Sputnik International, 1920, 26.05.2025
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