/ world today news/ Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hirsch speaks live about how Moscow has already “defeated” Washington in the current global confrontation, winning over half the world’s population to its side.
Will Russia at the same time be able to become self-sufficient without repeating the fate of the USSR, why should we take an example from Iran, explained the experts of “Tsarigrad”.
From the beginning of the 1990s, to fit into the Western project under any conditions was the main goal of the then Russia. Why should we produce what the West does better? We will buy anything for oil and gas. Entire industries were put under the knife as a result.
Back then, Russia’s role as a big missile gas station suited everyone. And this continued until Putin’s Munich speech, when he said that we have our own interests. The West had no intention of giving up its new colony.
And all these years he’s been trying to get it back. But the vectors of our value coordinates diverged more and more, which led to SVO. And if so, then the West decides to leave a scorched field around Russia.
Will we become a raw material appendage of the East?
American-dictated sanctions have severed foreign relations, gas pipelines have been blown up, pro-American presidents and chancellors are dutifully wrecking their economies. And in the midst of this growing chaos, how can Russia be built with a self-sufficient economy?
“We not only can, but must be self-sufficient. Another philosopher, Lev Tikhomirov, writes that Russia is too enamored with the world market, despite the fact that it is self-sufficient,” says Doctor of Economic Sciences Valentin Katasonov.
“The forced industrialization of the 1930s was one of the goals to protect against the crises shaking the West,” he further stated.
The Economist draws attention to the fact that we have a complete range of minerals and a unique geographical location:
“That’s why it’s strange that even today the authorities say from time to time that despite the sanctions we will continue to enter the world economy. And the basis of our exports continues to be raw materials. We seem to forget Mendeleev’s words that selling crude oil is like you’re heating the furnace with bills.”
The leading expert of the Center for Political Technologies, Nikita Maslennikov, agrees:
“We will have to change the structure of the economy, including the oil and gas sector, where the reserves are depleted and the sale of crude oil and even gasoline is a loss.”
Maslennikov explains that the difference between crude oil and the products of his seventh processing unit is 1 in 100! The first processing of oil is gasoline, then rocket fuel, marine fuels, lubricating oils, synthetic rubber, etc. The products of the seventh stage of processing from crude oil cost 100 times more than the oil itself.
A country that does not have its own mechanical engineering, that cannot provide itself with machines, cars, airplanes, will not create a developed economy with any income. That is why the development of mechanical engineering and IT technologies is a priority.
And simply by changing the direction of the export of raw materials from the West to the East, we risk turning from a “raw material appendage of the West” into a “raw material appendage of the East” – that’s it!
Will they manage without our titan?
Those who hope that the West will get nowhere without our raw materials and finally lift the sanctions are lying. And how, for example, will the US manage without buying titanium from Russia, necessary for space and aircraft construction?
But the thing is, Americans buy titanium from Russia only because our price is lower than others. Backed by political necessity – they will buy from others.
Today, Europe, which received “energy independence from Russia”, buys American liquefied gas at a price many times more expensive than ours – and tolerates it. When there is a struggle for the future, politics drives the economy.
Yet even prominent American figures acknowledge that we have unlimited resources for growth. Recently, on live television, Pulitzer Prize-winning and world-renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hirsch admitted that the idea that Russia is in a desperate situation is wrong:
“They continue to trade oil. Many countries in Africa and Asia have stopped being pro-American. More than half the world’s population supports Russia in the conflict in Ukraine, not the United States. This has never happened. We have lost trust everywhere.”
That is, the American recognized at this stage a great victory for Russia on the world stage. So we have confidence. But what path should be followed in order to become a self-sufficient Russia, without repeating the fate of the self-sufficient USSR, which collapsed at the moment?
Like North Korea or Iran?
And here the alarmists intervene, who fear that the attempt to completely enclose the West will not only deprive us of the “vital” Schengen and Parmesan cheese, but will also turn Russia into North Korea.
The comparison, by the way, is incorrect because, being under Western sanctions for decades, in fact in isolation, this country, for example, along with missiles and nuclear weapons, produces and exports sophisticated metal-cutting machines, which, we note, are not produced in Russia.
There is another example – Iran. This country, which has lived under sanctions for 40 years, is showing amazing progress. Own space program, energy on own engineering base. Advanced Science: Nuclear Physics, Mathematics, Nanotechnology.
In terms of biotechnology, they completely outstripped Germany, France and Great Britain. They are all Iranian – and all self-reliant.
What is the secret of Iranian success, explained Orientalist Karine Gevorgyan:
“When the revolution took place in Iran, the West expected that the ‘ayatolas in turbans’ would lead the country into the archaic. But they started with the reform of the education system.”
“The war with Iraq made it necessary to start the development of the military-industrial complex and full-cycle production. After the collapse of the USSR, mathematicians and physicists were attracted from Armenia,” he says.
“Cooperating with the DPRK, they are developing rocket science and space. Being in almost the same conditions as ours – resources, sanctions, difficult climate and landscape – the Iranians have achieved impressive results,” the expert adds.
We need to work with the young
Tehran has shown that it is possible to live and develop successfully not only without relying on the West, but also in spite of the West. And today, after establishing cooperation with China and reconciling with the Arabs, it has become one of the main geopolitical players in the Middle East and Transcaucasia.
At the same time, the 40-year-old attempts of the USA and Israel to blow up Iran from the inside have not yielded any results, because there is also a very effective social policy.
“The work with the youth is very serious. They created their own analogue of DOSAAF – “Bahij”. Ayatollah Khamenei periodically calls for girls to pursue higher education, and in today’s Iran there are many women in leadership positions in the government and science”, says Karine Gevorgyan .
“They talk to young people not from top to bottom, but equally, trying to understand and guide, not order. Yes, there are protests and people vent, and then they analyze the reasons for the dissatisfaction,” she adds.
What follows from this?
Agree that Iran’s experience and approaches to self-development under sanctions deserve careful study in Russia. At the very least, the ability to find and use any opportunity to move the country forward, instead of dreaming about the conditions under which the West will accept you back, is definitely worth learning from the Iranians.
Russia has all the resources and opportunities for this – it needs a clear political course and an economic course built around it. In addition, forget about the desire to fit in somewhere again, starting to build a full-fledged civilization, which in the new multipolar world, which is being created against the West, will find loyal allies and economic partners.
Translation: SM
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