Also we know Russia is doing badly because she doesn't love her planes.
We know she doesn't love her planes, for if she loved her planes she wouldn't have done an invasion that would prevent those poor planes from getting the parts and maintenance they want.
The inhabitable and somehow deceloped part of Russia does seem to fit that standard. Since the botoxmaxing maneater doesn't use the internet and prefers all documents being brought printed in a folder, I can see a conspiracy theory about his henchmen struggling to print the whole map, thus inspiring him to expand, expand, EXPAND!