The following report is by The Moscow Times:
The World Bank has upgraded Russia from an “upper-middle-income” to a “high-income” country with per-capita gross national income (GNI) totaling $14,250 in 2023.
“Economic activity in Russia was influenced by a large increase in military-related activity in 2023,” the international financial institution said Monday.
Russia’s move up the ranks was also boosted by growth in trade (+6.8%), the financial sector (+8.7%), and construction (+6.6%), according to the U.S.-based institution.
“These factors led to increases in both real (3.6%) and nominal (10.9%) GDP, and Russia’s Atlas GNI per capita grew by 11.2%,” it said.
World economies are divided into four groups based on per-capita GNI measures in U.S. dollars. The World Bank’s 2024-25 classification for “high-income” countries increased the threshold to $14,005 or more.
Bulgaria and Palau joined Russia in becoming “high-income economies” with $14,460 and $14,250 per-capita GNI, respectively.
In nominal terms, Russia ranks 72nd in per-capita GNI and 53rd in purchasing power parity.
Ukraine, which has been fighting off a full-scale Russian invasion since 2022, moved up from a “lower-middle-income” to an “upper-middle-income” status after economic growth resumed in 2023, the World Bank said.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The thousands of sanctions the U.S. and NATO nations have levied against Russia has done nothing but strengthen their economy, while further plundering the West’s into irrecoverable damage. The United States’ obituary has been written.
Job 12:23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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R.I.P. United States of America 1776 – 2025
Obituary:
The United States of America was once a great nation, admired by nations far and wide, and was regarded as an empire.
The bastion of economic and innovative growth, the demonstration of counter-tyrannical might, military strength, and perseverance that was seen during the American Revolutionary War fighting for independence.
All of these achievements were possible because of one thing and one thing only: the blessed, all powerful and Authorized Holy King James Bible.
As time went on, this nation started to become increasingly and severely unGodly beyond any and all belief, the very first cause and ignitor of America’s insane wickedness and evil was rejecting, critiquing, and despising the King James Bible. From there, the evil only grew and became worse like a toxic mold that spread its infecting spores across the world.
Child abuse and molestation, abortion and child murder other than abortion, sodomy and promotion of sodomy, the Jezebel witchcraft spirit otherwise known as feminism leading to millions of wrongful divorces, broken homes, destroyed children, cursed generations, and the legalization of murdering innocent children in the womb under the guise of medical procedures. Animal cruelty, murder, theft, corporate greed, and illegal and unjust wars of aggression on innocent and weaker nations that posed no threat whatsoever, destroying those people and forcing what they ubiquitously call democracy on them.
This nation became the biggest producer and distributor of moral decay and and all unGodliness in the name of entertainment by their production headquarters known as Hollywood, the world’s leading producer and exporter of sexually deviant filth called pornography or porn warping and ruining men and women aplenty.
And even with all these evils and more, this nation has the hypocritical gall and arrogance to call themselves a God fearing nation while spreading heresy and false faith as well as being yoked up with and connected to the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, the number one enemy of true believers and the King James Bible.
Now, this nation shall be laid to rest and be a cautionary tale for nations of the future lest they walk that same path to imminent destruction!
TRUTH!