ahead of Germany and Japan. Using PPP GDP measure.
a more detailed, but biased, article https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/no_author/russian-economy-zooms-ahead-outpaces-us-and-eu-growth/
There is more likely to be a collapse on the west from supporting a Ukraine war. There is zero resonance of "NATO is a purely defensive alliance" propaganda meant to be a friend to the world or to Russia inside of Russia. It is fully understood as an existential threat in Russia, while it is a casual inconvenience to those who trust western media in the west. A deep concern for the world/west is that Russia's extreme growth in military production means that we will soon be asked to boost competing military production and compromise our own sustainability and leisure.
The CIA has been known to lie, I’ll grant you that. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/real-gdp-purchasing-power-parity/country-comparison/
Not even a political take, just true
They don't tend to lie such as hyping up Russia though.