But Obama\u2019s effort was quite strange. Like the entire U.S. anti-Ukraine, anti-Russian effort, it seemed to have little relationship to the truth.\u00a0 To the very anti-Putin interviewers he feigned dismissiveness of Russia. \u00a0(If he was not lying and believes this stuff, we are really in deep trouble, because his ignorance could well reap the whirlwind for the human race.) <\/span><\/p>\n Among other things he claimed that:<\/span>\u00a0\u201cRussia doesn\u2019t make anything. Immigrants aren\u2019t rushing to Moscow in search of opportunity. \u2026 The population is shrinking.<\/i><\/span>\u201d A few graphs will make clear that this is way off the mark.\u00a0 The implication is that Russia is failing economically. So let us look at Russia\u2019s GDP, especially under Putin. We can see it at a glance here:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is clear that the period of the drunkard Yeltsin, so cherished in the West, was a disaster for Russia and that Putin reversed it. Russia\u2019s growth continues, interrupted only by the global financial disaster made in the good ol\u2019 USA on Wall St where so many of Obama\u2019s backers reside. (Should we call them the Wall St. oligarchs?)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Obama-interview-with-The-Economist.-_html_m8454b80-510x327\"](\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Obama-interview-with-The-Economist.-_html_m8454b80-510x327.png\")
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