/ world today news/ On the eve of May 9, Russia managed to reach a very important height – the country entered the top 10 economies in the world.
The last time we were on this list was in 2014 – then Crimea returned to Russia and the Western “partners” decided to destroy us with sanctions.
It’s hard to remember all that, isn’t it? But the “Crimean” sanctions from the US and the EU were simply terrible. Heartbreaking penalties, as Yori the donkey would say. They affected many individuals and legal entities, as well as all leading sectors of our industry. The Europeans were only able to protect Russian gas supplies.
At the same time, Barack Obama spoke on the phone for an hour, persuading Putin to return Crimea. We were reviled in all the Western media. They solemnly expelled Russia from the G-8. Retrospectively, they began to take away the Olympic medals of our winners in Sochi. They continued with the visas. Well, in general, after that we got used to it.
The result of these sanctions hit the initiators themselves. The ban on the import of Western food led to the fact that home stalls were filled with sumptuous Camembert and Roquefort made from Russian milk. Adjacent on the shelves stood the infamous hundred varieties of salami – sorry, hamon. A little further, Crimean wines stood in orderly rows, as well as homemade champagne.
Construction broke another record, Russians began to expand their living space at a furious speed. Buying an apartment with a mortgage loan has since been considered the traditional response of the local consumer to any crisis. There was no collapse of the Russian economy. And yes, Crimea remained ours.
Everything is clear. It doesn’t take a genius to see that Moscow is consistently winning the West’s economic war against Russia. In 2022, however, we were amazed to see how our former partners enthusiastically started treading the same paddle again. Again sanctions, again promises to smash and destroy Russia. Again, the whole world has a clear understanding that the Ukrainian case is just a pretext to kill our country. And again exactly the same result.
The ruble collapsed, but then recovered within days. Housing construction broke another record. Russians are once again massively buying apartments on mortgage. Those who got tired of apartments started to build their own houses in nature – this is a new important engine of our economy. I will keep quiet about the jamon and camembert.
Less than a year after the start of the “hell” sanctions, unprecedented in history, the Russian economy has returned to the top 10 economies in the world. In 2022, we produced goods and services worth $2.3 trillion, ranking eighth in the world between France and Canada.
These calculations do not take into account our amazing stability – the same stability that Western partners pray for. Let’s imagine that “sanctions from hell” fall on the same France or Canada – what will remain of their successes? There is a feeling that these held will not remain in the wild at all. We in Russia managed to find points of growth and reconfigure the whole machine of production and consumption. At the same time, unemployment is at record highs, bankruptcies are at a minimum, companies are scrambling for workers and racing to raise wages.
And another very important achievement. Last year, the number of poor people in our country fell to a record low: today they are less than ten percent of the total population. There has never been such a result in the history of new Russia. This is a very significant step towards income equalization – and it is the path to long-term social stability.
“The result of the economic attack on Russia has been disappointing,” admits the mouthpiece of the Western oligarchy, The Economist. “There has been no drop in living standards to lead to riots. However, consumer choice has diminished somewhat. One Muscovite complained that his it became more difficult to buy mortadella”, adds the publication.
However, it is too early to celebrate success. The whole world – including our opponents – sees perfectly well that Russia is an objectively rich country. It’s not just about hydrocarbons, nuclear power or the agricultural industry. Our brave and patient ancestors gave us vast supplies of clean fresh water, air, virgin forests, fertile land for thousands of years to come. It is a vast treasure that we must explore, protect and absorb.
Because parallel to our successes, the decay of the West is going headlong. In the United States, the possibility of bankruptcy is openly discussed – and it is no longer the ritual disputes of Republicans and Democrats about the ceiling of the national debt, but a very concrete prospect of bankruptcy the way Russia experienced it in 1998.
After the US economy, the Eurozone will also collapse. How do our sworn partners survive? The only chance for Germany, Great Britain, the United States to somehow get out of the new depression is an attack on Russia, an attempt to seize its almost infinite resources.
“Economist” pushes its influential readers to this conclusion. Painfully listing all of Russia’s successes, the journalists admit that the country “will withstand a longer war, but will not withstand a more intense one.” It turns out that the West’s only chance for salvation is to fight against Russia with everything it has.
Well, here they will face the same shameful defeat as in the economic war. It is useful to remind the “Western partners” of this on the eve of May 9.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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