That "natural resources" question looks pretty strange. US have Canada right at the border, with amounts of resources pretty similar to Russia. But somehow there is a lack of resources for West. I'll never believe that Canada somehow resist West resources demand and don't allow research and extraction.
So, hardly it is the question of resources, really, there is something else, political, spiritual, whatever.
That "natural resources" question looks pretty strange. US have Canada right at the border, with amounts of resources pretty similar to Russia. But somehow there is a lack of resources for West. I'll never believe that Canada somehow resist West resources demand and don't allow research and extraction.
So, hardly it is the question of resources, really, there is something else, political, spiritual, whatever.