She has the largest unturned arable soil of any country in the world.

Russia in Europe is a great agricultural plain.

To the east are her rich oil-fields steadily expanding north in the Ural Mountains, and east lies Siberia, endowed by nature as one of the richest countries in the world, an area in which you could deposit the United States.

From the Siberian railroad other railroads are now projected; mineral wealth is being uncovered; and English and French capital and American engineers will in the future work wonders with the country.
What Russia has long sought is an outlet to the ocean.

This war is likely to give her benefits which she could never have asked and could only have fought for.