And there are only about 40 million inhabitants of Siberia, which is a gigantic Russian land, full of natural resources, covering about 9% of the earth, over 5 million square miles -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia.
The U.S., with nearly 330 million people, has less than 3.8 million square miles.
Siberia is only one part of Russia. Then there is Russia, herself.
The difference between the oil revenues in Russia and Saudi Arabia is that unlike the latter, the Russian government receives only a part of the revenues from crude oil sales. Many of the oil companies are privately owned (such as Lukoil, Surgutneftegas and Novatek). Even in the state-owned Rosneft, close to 50% of the shares are held by foreigners. In Saudi Arabia, Aramco is 100% owned by the government. Therefore, all the revenues go directly to the treasury.
Because the underlying law in Russia is civil law, and civil law that has a violent history, the Russian Government can change ownership any time it wants. Taking over companies by eliminating private ownership might not be wise, because it was part of what the whole U.S.S.R. was based on, and it didn't work out so well. The point is that they can do it if they want.
In fact, in Russia there is a law on the protection of foreign investments. All businessmen who have big business trying to protect it through foreign investment. In fact it is their own capital only opened to Russia from abroad.
Nice law. Laws can be repealed, or overridden by other laws, whenever the government thinks there is a need to do so.
The law is good, but they are not good people. That is why Russia is a country with very large reserves and very poor people. Everything in other countries working for the good of Russia brings harm.
Let's translate what you are saying.
Government is made out of people. They are real flesh and blood people, just like the citizens.
This means that it is people hurting other people.
Government is supposed to be there to protect people. If it hurts people, it isn't doing the thing it is there for. Why would anyone need Government?
This means that it is people hurting other people.
Some citizens who work for Government - soldiers, police, office workers - think Government is good. How can we show them that Government is bad? How many of them know government is bad, yet keep on working for Government, and even doing dirty work for Government people?
How many average, non-Government-worker citizens think Government is good? How can we show them that Government is bad?
Same in all the governments except for a few small ones.
