{"id":2202,"date":"2025-11-29T01:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:43:40","slug":"russia-has-twice-as-many-engineering-graduates-as-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/russia-has-twice-as-many-engineering-graduates-as-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia has twice as many engineering graduates as the USA."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has twice as many engineering graduates as the USA. And that&#8217;s with half the population. Ultimately, though, it doesn&#8217;t matter. Russia is certainly a country that shouldn&#8217;t be written off.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.de\/-\/en\/Westen-Niedergang-%C3%96konomie-Kultur-Religion\/dp\/3864894697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmanuel Todd<\/a>, who in 1976, as a 26-year-old doctoral student, predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union using statistical indicators, also predicted that Ukraine and NATO had lost the war against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/09\/opinion\/emmanuel-todd-decline-west.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":1931,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1931\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/russia_engineers.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph \/-->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emmanuel Todd: Defeat of the West - Collapse of Power &amp; Values\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BW9K0x1NxEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Prepare for the future, book a consultation now. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/contact-us\/\">Talk to us.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has twice as many engineering graduates as the USA. And that&#8217;s with half the population. Ultimately, though, it doesn&#8217;t matter. Russia is certainly a country that shouldn&#8217;t be written off. Emmanuel Todd, who in 1976, as a 26-year-old doctoral student, predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union using statistical indicators, also predicted that Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}