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Almost every single country with an extraction-based economy is either a dictatorship or a failed state. The single exception is Norway, which discovered oil after it was already an advanced democracy. A country with natural resources does not need to invest in its human capital, or worry about democracy.
Russia's natural resources are its curse.
There is actually a good video by CGP grey on why this is. https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
Remove the tracker from that url https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
The Netherlands is also wealthy because of their natural gas.
So it is definitely possible to not be a dictatorship, and a good Putin would make it so.
The Netherlands is absolutely not wealthy because of its natural gas. The Netherlands is a manufacturing center, a farming powerhouse (it's literally the world's number 2 food exporter). It was Europe's original trading empire. Today it contains the closest thing Europe has to Silicon Valley, with world-class universities and the super-high-tech ASML. It's been a wealthy country for centuries because it has invested in its people. The natural gas is an anecdote.
isn't asml British?
You're one search away from the truth, my friend
holding? so looks like i will be going on the wikipedia app today
edit: hmm it truly is, must've confused ARM.
You're thinking of ARM
OK, but mostly it's the imperialism.
Sweden and Finland, to take just two nearby examples, are roughly as wealthy as the Netherlands. Neither had an empire. Portugal, the world's first superpower, with colonies on three continents, is far poorer than any of those three countries.
Russia is currently trying to re-establish its empire, and impoverishing itself in the process.
Imperialism is a red herring.