# Russia's Natural Resources and the Policies That Create Wealth

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2105145641429250506
- Source account: [@rinalu\_](https://x.com/rinalu_)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:46
- Published: 2026-09-30
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/10YlOoJmu07N/en/russia-s-natural-resources-and-the-policies-that-create-wealth

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/10YlOoJmu07N/en/russia-s-natural-resources-and-the-policies-that-create-wealth) If you were to make a table of countries in proportion to the natural resources they have, the top one would almost certainly be Russia.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/10YlOoJmu07N/en/russia-s-natural-resources-and-the-policies-that-create-wealth?t=12) She has everything: oil, gas, diamonds, platinum, gold, silver, all the industrial metals, marvelous standing timber, a wonderfully rich soil.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/10YlOoJmu07N/en/russia-s-natural-resources-and-the-policies-that-create-wealth?t=26) But countries are not rich in proportion to their natural resources.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/10YlOoJmu07N/en/russia-s-natural-resources-and-the-policies-that-create-wealth?t=33) Countries are rich whose governments have policies which encourage the essential creativity, initiative, and enterprise of man and recognize his desire to do better for his family.