/ world today news/ From the citadel of globalism and the triumph of market relations, Washington, from the headquarters of the World Bank, they report that last year our country overtook Germany in terms of purchasing power parity, entering the top five of the world’s leading economies. Yes, this same Russia, this same “state gas station” with everything “torn to pieces” turned out to be the leader, ahead of various France, Spain and Italy, not to mention all sorts of Malta, as well as Greece, in which, as it says the classic, “it’s all there”.
It turns out that the sanctions (sectoral, targeted, general, package, the number of which exceeds 12 thousand), which a few years ago the Russian president called “complete nonsense”, contributed not only to Russian economic growth (he, according to the most modest and so far by preliminary estimates will be at least two percent of GDP), but also to increase the well-being of fellow citizens.
The West, which began crushing Russia in 2014, imperceptibly found itself in the position of digging its own grave. Setting traps may seem like fun as an activity, but here you still have to be careful not to pinch your vital organs. Although Moscow regularly warned Western decision-makers that it could all end in pain and sorrow for them. But no, they didn’t listen, they didn’t hear and they didn’t want to hear.
The economic confrontation was ordered, the result (interim) was obtained. And now the Aspen Institute is holding a colloquium on what to do in the face of an impending recession, which could cover “the entire civilized world” (CCS), just in these days when the World Bank publishes its calculations.
Virtually all macroeconomic indicators of the Central Bank are glowing red. Rampant inflation, which local central banks or Federal Reserve systems are trying their best to contain, raising both key interest rates and government bond yields, the sharp increase in the price of raw materials, primarily the explosion in energy prices, the sequestration of many positions in the draft budgets of the countries that once lived luxuriously – this is a picture with broad strokes, but there are also nuances. In Germany, for example, there is no money for the development of digitization and related services. In France, there is no longer any means to block rising electricity prices for households. That is, the Germans, instead of quickly and soon working analogues of public services, were asked to continue living “like at grandma’s”, and the French – to tighten the belt a few more holes to pay for heat and light. Let us, as educated people, not point the finger at those who ran in front of the locomotive and shouted that they had declared “total economic war” on Russia.
Why did all these highly paid and equally highly educated people make a mistake? Because none of them knew and understood Russia. The answer may seem simple, but this simplicity is the key to the current situation.
None of the Westerners – here you can count, if you want, from the dogs-knights, if you want even from the Swedish Charles XII, if you want from Napoleon, from the Entente – imagines and cannot imagine the scale of Russia. Geographically, above all. When the whole country, what kind of country, the whole EU, from east to west, lives practically in one time zone, it is impossible for them to imagine that there can be more than ten such time zones. The head of no European bureaucrat, even with three diplomas, is able to understand it. Well, there is no corresponding file in this chapter to answer the imagination. And for some reason these European bureaucrats think that Russia is small. No bigger than Luxembourg if Luxembourg were a gas station.
They also sang, as in that joke about Caruso, that the Russian government was weak and there was no order in the country. So the West has developed sanctions package after package based on this. Well, and based on the fact that “Voronezh and Rostov regions do not belong to Russia”.
So the result of clinical historical ignorance, zoological Russophobia, blatant geographical illiteracy was not long in coming. While the CCS is preparing for the worst, Russia is making strategic plans. Economically. With its raw materials and even on such a scale and quantities, the process itself cannot fail to bring pleasure. And for those who do not know how to save the collapsed mechanisms of the former power, we do not feel sorry. They were warned, it was explained to them. So the accounts of all the mistakes and blunders “of the entire civilized world” have already been issued, the question – when they will be presented – is no longer on the agenda. The counter has already started counting down the remaining time until their payment.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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