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Nicholas Begich: “Russia's number one by far.”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 51:50

It's interesting you mentioned Russia, you know, if you look at the estimated, both discovered and undiscovered resources. So the estimates of total resources in each nation, you know, world, the United States is number two. Yep. Russia's number one by far. Oh, not even close. Yeah. They have something like, I believe, and someone can go look this up, tell me I'm wrong, but I think it's something like $45 trillion in the ground. (51:50–51:53)

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Asserts that Russia has the largest estimated total resources in the world.

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