Russia's biggest problem has always been transportion.

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>>18369989
Absolutely, purely by compound interest.
Just abolish serfdom much sooner, introduce private property protection laws and strengthen the institutions. Given by their population numbers, they would've grown rapidly, both economically, and demographically.

>>18370369
But they probably wouldn't reach the technological level. I doubt they have the intellectual capacity for it.
But on the other hand, they had some impressive inventors, so who knows.

>>18369989
no because Russians are fucking retarded.

>>18370369
>Given by their population numbers, they would've grown rapidly, both economically, and demographically.
population was a detriment,to industrialize russians needed ww1 and ww2 to cull them just like chinese needed cultural revolution

>>18369989
I doubt it, America is lucky because it has easy access to both Pacific and Atlantic, and while Russia technically does to the way they have it is stupidly worse + they need to transport it across way more land, and nearly inhospitable land at that.

>>18369989
really unlikely
>rivers all run the wrong way to facilitate internal trade, driving up the cost of basic logistics
>basic layout of the country means that the most productive land is stretched across a long, thin corridor on the south of the country, further driving up costs of logistics
>what useful land there is is also subject to intense seasonal freezes and thaws that lead to intense maintenance requirements and again driving up cost of logistics
>hemmed in by competing powers in all directions which necessitates a much more aggressive security posture that tilts risk vs reward perspectives on trade, economic and political openness vs security
>relative lack of opportunities for legally protected property ownership, economic and social advancement, and heavy state suspicion of the educated are all huge dampers to innovation

Russia does have some advantages it could and has leveraged at times, it has traditionally lagged behind continental Europe and recently East Asia in a lot of tech fields but it has always invested state resources in copying from them instead of having to rely on organically innovating, until recently it had really good demographics which led to a huge low cost workforce, and even with the serious logistics problems the terrain poses it is well situated to provide land connections to the interiors of Europe and Asia. the US for all if its many, many problems really benefitted from weak, generally friendly neighbors, incredible geography, being isolated enough to be safe but not too isolated to trade regularly, and inheriting legal, educational, and cultural frameworks from Britain that laid the groundwork for economic and technological development

>>18371290
>America is lucky because it has easy access to both Pacific and Atlantic
What is this silly argumentation. I'm sure all the technology and industrial pioneers in the States achieved success thanks to those bodies of water, not favourable economic policy, relative political stability, intelligent population, and other insignificant factors.

>>18371712
Retard.

>compare a maple seed with an oak acorn
>point out that the acorn was planted in fertile soil and given appropriate water
>"Yeah I'm sure the reason the oak is taller is because of the soil, not because oaks grow taller than maples"