If you were all the powerful as the Putin, and had Europe next to your door, wouldn’t you?

GDP is an especially bad measur

Whenever it doesn’t favour US and the West vs Russia, it’s a bad one. Otherwise, it’s a good one.

Putin’s shoes, man… from dawn til dawn… from sunrise til sunrise … every day! You’ll like it.

Yes. Soon it’ll be Russia everywhere. And you’ll be a slave and in prison. You’ll be clearning Putin’s shoes from dawn to dawn, looking into his eyes from bottom up. I’ll be creating videos of you, uploading them onto Youtube on daily basis. Aren’t you ok with this? It sounds awesome to me.

US and Eu neglect the interests of Russia, but they don’t like it when Russia does the same towards them. Magic?

Russia hasn’t even started.

How would then Putin defeat US and EU?

One day US and EU propaganda claim that Putin and Russia are on a brick of collapse, that the russian army is unable of anything and UA is winning. The next day they’ll cry that the same russian army is 1st or 2nd strongest in the world, that it overpowers UA in all ways possible despite that US and EU help the latter.

And so on back and forth. Yet they claim that they don’t engage in propaganda and misinformation.

None other than pro-West “The S&P Global Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI)” claims so. Putin had already paid them for it, of course. And as usually “Putin is in panic! In panic!!!1”

why would you be sorry?

I will

“May as well” – how about October, March and August?