US President Joe Biden. Archival photoMOSCOW, 9 Jun. The US policy regarding anti-Russian sanctions has failed for several reasons, but the main one is excessive arrogance and underestimation of a number of economic indicators of Russia, which the Americans spread and which they themselves rely on, the director of the Franklin Roosevelt Foundation for the Study of the United States told Prime News Agency ( Moscow State University) Yuri Rogulev. «There are thousands of analysts in the CIA alone, in other services there are tens of thousands of people who are supposed to compare, analyze and evaluate according to the state. And they all underestimated the role of Russia in the world economy, its influence,» the expert noted. Despite a significant staff of analysts, Washington relied on the unsubstantiated opinion that one external blow was enough to completely collapse Russia. However, the US did not take into account the supply chains of Russian goods, raw materials and food. Russia is in 11th place in terms of nominal GDP in the world list, in terms of GDP PPP — in 5-6th place, which is comparable with European economies. The Russian economy, unlike the American one, is of a real nature. “We just don’t fit into the American concept of the economy,” Rogulev summed up.
