Russische leiders in hun eigen woorden

[Nr.10]

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Rusland vs. Het Westen : De pot verwijt de ketel
Het Westen vs. Rusland: De pot verwijt de ketel
Resultaat: Onschuldige mensen worden met geweld vernietigd/afgeslacht door het soort volk dat bepaald wat wij wel en niet mogen en waar wij ons geld aan afgeven.

Conclusie: Elke euro belasting die je kan ontwijken kan misschien levens redden in Oekraïne.

De conclusie kan ook anders zijn.

Hoe meer olie op het vuur dat door de Angelsaksen aangepookt wordt hoe meer eurootjes op tafel dienen te komen voor de grondstoffen zonder dewelke onze Europese economie ophoudt te draaien.

[Jay-P.]

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Vandaag Putin:
"Russia is entering the coming era as a powerful sovereign country" "Only strong states and sovereign ones can have their say in the emerging world order, or are doomed to remain or become a colony," "Western elites despise their own people"

En meer scherpe opmerkingen vandaag in Sint Petersburg.

Lagere levensvormen zijn rap content over henzelf, niet?
Typisch Russisch.

[Bach]

RT's verslagje van de Sint Petersburg speech (opgepast: lezen op eigen risico)

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17 Jun, 2022 18:20

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The old world is over: Key takeaways from Putin's first major speech since Russia's military offensive in Ukraine

Russian leader has buried the old world order and outlined his view on Russia’s and the world’s future, in a key address

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a plenary session of the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in St. Petersburg, Russia. © Sputnik / Pavel Bednyakov

New centers of power have emerged, the unipolar world order isn’t coming back, and the?*“colonial”?*way of thinking has failed, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday, in what the Kremlin?*described?*as an?*“extremely important”?*speech.
The old world order is gone with the wind
When the US declared victory in the Cold War, Americans designated themselves the?*“messengers of God on earth,”?*with interests that should be considered sacred and no obligations, Putin told the audience at SPIEF. New centers of power have since emerged, and have the right to protect their own systems, economic models and sovereignty.
These?*“truly revolutionary, tectonic changes in geopolitics, the global economy, in the technological sphere, in the entire system of international relations,”?*are “fundamental, pivotal and inexorable,” Putin said.?*“And It is a mistake to suggest that one can wait out the times of turbulent change and that things will return to normal; that everything will be as it was. It will not.”
Anti-Russian sanctions backfired on the West
When the US and its allies launched the campaign to?*“cancel”?*Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, they hoped to crash and undermine the Russian economy and society. The sanctions have instead boomeranged on their creators, aggravating social and economic problems, driving up the cost of food, electricity and fuel, and hurting the quality of life across the West, but especially in Europe.
“The European Union has completely lost its political sovereignty, and its bureaucratic elites are dancing to someone else’s tune, accepting whatever they are told from above, causing harm to their own population and their own economy,”?*Putin said.
EU citizens will pay the price for?*“decisions divorced from reality and taken contrary to common sense,”?*he added, as direct losses from the sanctions alone could exceed $400 billion in a year.
Energy prices and inflation are self-inflicted
Blaming the high energy prices and inflation in the West on Russia –?*“Putin’s price hike,”?*as the White House put it – is a?*“stupidity”?*and?*“designed for people who can’t read or write,”?*the Russian president said.
“Don’t blame us, blame yourselves,”?*Putin said.
The EU?*“blindly believing in renewable sources”?*and abandoning long-term natural gas contracts with Russia led to the spike in energy prices last year, according to the Russian leader. Meanwhile, both the US and the EU addressed the Covid-19 pandemic by printing trillions of dollars and euros.
‘Elite change’ awaits the West
Policies undertaken by EU and US leaders are exacerbating inequalities and divisions in their societies, not just in terms of welfare but in terms of values and orientations of various groups, Putin said.
“Such a detachment from reality, from the demands of society, will inevitably lead to a surge of populism and the growth of radical movements, to serious social and economic changes, to degradation and, in the near future, to a change of elites,”?*the Russian leader said.

If there’s a famine, it won’t be Russia’s fault
US and EU sanctions against Russia – in particular fertilizer and grain exports – are one of the reasons for growing global food insecurity, Putin pointed out. If there is famine in the world’s poorest countries,?*“this will be entirely on the conscience of the US administration and the European bureaucracy."
Troubles with food supply have arisen over the past several years – not months – due to the?*“short-sighted actions of those who are accustomed to solving their problems at someone else's expense,”?*distorting the trade flows by printing money in a sort of?*“predatory colonial policy,”?*Putin said.
Russia is ready to send food to Africa and the Middle East, where the threat of famine is most acute, but faces?*“logistical, financial, transport”?*obstacles imposed by the West, he said.?*
?*
Reasons for the Ukraine conflict

Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February because the West refused to abide by its obligations, and it was?*“simply impossible to reach any new agreements with them,”?*Putin said. The decision was?*“forced, but necessary,”?*as Russia had every right as a sovereign country to defend its security and protect its citizens and residents of Donbass from?*“genocide by the Kiev regime and neo-Nazis who received the full protection of the West."

The West spent years turning Ukraine into an?*“anti-Russia”?*state and pumping it with weapons and military advisers, Putin said, pointing out they?*“did not give a damn”?*about Ukraine’s economy or the lives of its people, but?*“spared no expense to create a NATO foothold in the east, directed against Russia, to cultivate aggression, hatred and Russophobia."

“All the objectives of the special military operation will be unconditionally achieved,”?*Putin said.
Economic development is an expression of sovereignty

In the 21st century, sovereignty can’t be partial, Putin argued. All of its elements are equally important and complement each other, and the economy is one of them. There are five key principles Russia will follow in economic development: Openness, freedom, social justice, infrastructure, and technological sovereignty.

Russia will?*“never follow the path of self-isolation and autarky,”?*but will expand interactions with anyone who wishes to trade, Putin said, adding there are?*“many such countries.”?*Moscow will also support private enterprise, build and repair its transportation infrastructure, seek to reduce social inequality, and ensure its key technologies are not dependent on foreign imports.

“Truly sovereign states are always committed to equal partnerships,”?*while?*“those who are weak and dependent, as a rule, are busy looking for enemies, planting xenophobia, or finally losing their originality, independence, blindly following the overlord,”?*he said.

Ik vrees dat Putin met betrekking tot Europa gewoon de keiharde waarheid hardop zegt. Een Europese bureaucratie die zingt naar het deuntje van een ander. Een Europa dat zijn politieke onafhankelijkheid verloren heeft.

Ik waarschuw er al jaren voor, ongeacht Putin's mening daaromtrent.

[patrickve]

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"Eigenaardig gedrag".
Sommigen helpen zelfs wildvreemde dieren.
Een kat adopteren, bvb.
Dat is NOG eigenaardiger dan!

Natuurlijk niet. Je adopteert een kat omdat JIJ dat leuk vindt, niet omdat die kat dat "nodig" heeft. Die kat is zoals speelgoed he. En ja, dat is ook "emotioneel speelgoed". En dan leer je die kat kennen, en wordt dat "een deel van de familie". Maar WILDVREEMDE katten helpen, ge moet toch zot zijn he, zonder daar iets in retour voor te hebben. Dat doe je enkel maar als je geïnteresseerd bent in een RELATIE met die kat, niet omdat je "die kat haar noden wil verlichten". Je zet eten voor de vogeltjes in uw hof omdat je die vogeltjes naar daar wil lokken, he, omdat je het leuk vindt om vogeltjes in uw tuin TE ZIEN, als een soort van decoratie he. Niet omdat je "vogeltjes wil helpen".

[patrickve]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Bach

Vandaag Putin:

"Russia is entering the coming era as a powerful sovereign country"

"Only strong states and sovereign ones can have their say in the emerging world order, or are doomed to remain or become a colony,"

En dan verwijt hij het westen van 't zelfde te doen. Volgens hem moet Oekraine een RUSSISCHE kolonie zijn, en geen Westerse. Wij vinden dat Oekraine een westerse kolonie moet zijn, en geen Russische. Waar zit hem het verschil ?

[Der Wanderer]

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Maar WILDVREEMDE katten helpen, ge moet toch zot zijn he, zonder daar iets in retour voor te hebben. Dat doe je enkel maar als je geïnteresseerd bent in een RELATIE met die kat, niet omdat je "die kat haar noden wil verlichten". Je zet eten voor de vogeltjes in uw hof omdat je die vogeltjes naar daar wil lokken, he, omdat je het leuk vindt om vogeltjes in uw tuin TE ZIEN, als een soort van decoratie he. Niet omdat je "vogeltjes wil helpen".

Dit klinkt weer als projectie.

[patrickve]

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Dit klinkt weer als projectie.

Dat is het enige dat mogelijk is voor een bewust wezen he, ervan uit gaan dat alle andere bewuste wezens gelijkaardig voelen. Want "anders voelen" is zinloos, heeft geen betekenis. Dat is zoals U proberen in te beelden dat je "andere kleuren" zou zien. Dat is gewoon onmogelijk om U dat in te beelden.

Men kan maar empathisch zijn in de mate dat gevoelens en ervaringen dezelfde zijn he, men kan zich niet "inbeelden" dat er "andere" ervaringen zouden zijn dan de soorten ervaring die men zelf heeft.

Natuurlijk kan men wel behavioristische modellen opstellen die andere input-output relaties hebben dan uw eigen, maar men kan dat nooit doen via het "begrijpen" van emoties die de uwe niet zijn - die "bestaan" voor U niet en dus ook niet in de wereld die je waarneemt. Enkel behavioristische elementen blijven dan over.

[Bach]

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En dan verwijt hij het westen van 't zelfde te doen. Volgens hem moet Oekraine een RUSSISCHE kolonie zijn, en geen Westerse. Wij vinden dat Oekraine een westerse kolonie moet zijn, en geen Russische. Waar zit hem het verschil ?

'Wij' vinden niet eens meer wat goed is voor onszelf, maar voor een ander. Door te spreken over het 'westen' echter wordt dit zware souvereiniteits probleem in Europa verdoezeld. Moest men tegelijk pleiten voor stemrecht in de VS zou men nog enigszins kunnen denken niet met dwazen of verraders te doen en hebben die zo redeneren.

[patrickve]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Bach

'Wij' vinden niet eens meer wat goed is voor onszelf, maar voor een ander. Door te spreken over het 'westen' echter wordt dit zware souvereiniteits probleem in Europa verdoezeld. Moest men tegelijk pleiten voor stemrecht in de VS zou men nog enigszins kunnen denken niet met dwazen of verraders te doen en hebben die zo redeneren.

Uw blinde haat voor de VS - joost mag weten waarom - maakt dat je niet snapt dat Europa en de VS (en de UK, en Australie en Japan en Israel en nog wat zulke landen) "het westen" zijn, ttz, een vergelijkbare visie hebben op hoe met elkaar om te gaan. Dat er binnen die groep natuurlijk ook rivaliteiten zijn en dergelijke is evident, en dat hoort zelfs tot de visie die we delen, namelijk dat concurrentie prima is, maar dat we tegen elkaar geen grof fysisch geweld gebruiken.
De VS is niet anders dan de UK, Frankrijk en Duitsland en zo, maar door de omvang hebben ze uiteraard meer gewicht, maar dat is het dan ook.

Het westen moet van 3 vijanden schrik hebben: de totalitaire Russen, de totalitaire Chinezen, en de waanzinnige moslims. De hoop is lang geweest dat de Russen hun totalitair gedoe achterwege gingen halen, maar met Poetin is dat de verkeerde richting uitgegaan. Dat is heel spijtig. Met de Chinezen en de moslims gaat het hard afrekenen worden.

Uiteindelijk moet de bedoeling zijn dat alle wereldresources grotendeels dienen om de landen van het westen te voorzien in welvaart ; de rest van de wereldbevolking kan getolereerd worden in de mate dat zij daartoe bijdragen, en moet vernietigd worden in de mate dat zij daar concurrentieel voor zijn, laat staan bedreigend. En daarbij is de band tussen de EU en de VS veel belangrijker dan enig vijandschap, want het is niet met de Russen of de Chinezen dat we de resources van de wereld voor ons zullen krijgen he.

[Nietzsche]

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Uw blinde haat voor de VS - joost mag weten waarom - maakt dat je niet snapt dat Europa en de VS (en de UK, en Australie en Japan en Israel en nog wat zulke landen) "het westen" zijn, ttz, een vergelijkbare visie hebben op hoe met elkaar om te gaan. Dat er binnen die groep natuurlijk ook rivaliteiten zijn en dergelijke is evident, en dat hoort zelfs tot de visie die we delen, namelijk dat concurrentie prima is, maar dat we tegen elkaar geen grof fysisch geweld gebruiken.
De VS is niet anders dan de UK, Frankrijk en Duitsland en zo, maar door de omvang hebben ze uiteraard meer gewicht, maar dat is het dan ook.

Het westen moet van 3 vijanden schrik hebben: de totalitaire Russen, de totalitaire Chinezen, en de waanzinnige moslims. De hoop is lang geweest dat de Russen hun totalitair gedoe achterwege gingen halen, maar met Poetin is dat de verkeerde richting uitgegaan. Dat is heel spijtig. Met de Chinezen en de moslims gaat het hard afrekenen worden.

Uiteindelijk moet de bedoeling zijn dat alle wereldresources grotendeels dienen om de landen van het westen te voorzien in welvaart ; de rest van de wereldbevolking kan getolereerd worden in de mate dat zij daartoe bijdragen, en moet vernietigd worden in de mate dat zij daar concurrentieel voor zijn, laat staan bedreigend. En daarbij is de band tussen de EU en de VS veel belangrijker dan enig vijandschap, want het is niet met de Russen of de Chinezen dat we de resources van de wereld voor ons zullen krijgen he.

Mwau. Dat was zo. Maar dat land heeft zich ondertussen redelijk aangepast aan de mentaliteit aldaar.

[Bach]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door patrickve

Uw blinde haat voor de VS - joost mag weten waarom - maakt dat je niet snapt dat Europa en de VS (en de UK, en Australie en Japan en Israel en nog wat zulke landen) "het westen" zijn, ttz, een vergelijkbare visie hebben op hoe met elkaar om te gaan. Dat er binnen die groep natuurlijk ook rivaliteiten zijn en dergelijke is evident, en dat hoort zelfs tot de visie die we delen, namelijk dat concurrentie prima is, maar dat we tegen elkaar geen grof fysisch geweld gebruiken.
De VS is niet anders dan de UK, Frankrijk en Duitsland en zo, maar door de omvang hebben ze uiteraard meer gewicht, maar dat is het dan ook.

vragen voor stemrecht is een uiting van haat? Nee, het is een stem voor vrijheid en gerechtigheid. Een wil niet overheerst te worden door een entiteit die geen vrienden heeft maar enkel belangen. Die meermaals getoond heeft onder de bus te gooien de 'vrienden' als het goed uitkomt.

“To be America’s enemy is dangerous,
but to be America’s friend is Fatal”

Henry Kissinger

Beetje raar dat genocidaire machtswellust gepaard gaat met de verblinding van de slaaf Patrick. Een van de onlogische gaten in uw "waanzinnige" theoretische beschouwingen.

Het westen moet van 3 vijanden schrik hebben: de totalitaire Russen, de totalitaire Chinezen, en de waanzinnige moslims. De hoop is lang geweest dat de Russen hun totalitair gedoe achterwege gingen halen, maar met Poetin is dat de verkeerde richting uitgegaan. Dat is heel spijtig. Met de Chinezen en de moslims gaat het hard afrekenen worden.

Uiteindelijk moet de bedoeling zijn dat alle wereldresources grotendeels dienen om de landen van het westen te voorzien in welvaart ; de rest van de wereldbevolking kan getolereerd worden in de mate dat zij daartoe bijdragen, en moet vernietigd worden in de mate dat zij daar concurrentieel voor zijn, laat staan bedreigend. En daarbij is de band tussen de EU en de VS veel belangrijker dan enig vijandschap, want het is niet met de Russen of de Chinezen dat we de resources van de wereld voor ons zullen krijgen he.

U redeneert vanuit een positie van macht en dat zonder mededogen. Ik geloof dat wie het zwaard predikt het zwaard zal voelen steken.

En het is des te dwazer het zwaard te prediken waarmee de analyse van de situatie niet klopt. Verblind door macht interseert men zich niet meer in de ander maar projecteert er hoogmoedig zijn eigen van realisme ontdane visie op de realiteit op. Een gegarandeerd recept voor ondergang.

Er zijn minder pijnlijke wegen de toekomst in dan wat u ons hier voorhoudt.

[Jay-P.]

Voor de 17de eeuwse componist alhier.
Bosmans' Bond zonder Naam 5 cent slogans vereisen een basis van toch ietwat intellectuele correctheid:

Ik geloof dat wie het zwaard predikt het zwaard zal voelen steken.

Een zwaard hakt of snijdt, ...indien je wilt steken kies dan voor een floret, hè.

[Voltian]

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RT's verslagje van de Sint Petersburg speech (opgepast: lezen op eigen risico)


Ik vrees dat Putin met betrekking tot Europa gewoon de keiharde waarheid hardop zegt. Een Europese bureaucratie die zingt naar het deuntje van een ander. Een Europa dat zijn politieke onafhankelijkheid verloren heeft.

Ik waarschuw er al jaren voor, ongeacht Putin's mening daaromtrent.

Niet echt iets nieuws in deze speech; hij zegt:

Sancties doen eu meer pijn dan ussr
Hongersnood in Africa is schuld van eu/vs sancties; ussr wil wel, maar kan niet, door eu/vs
Interventie was nodig als “preemptive strike” om eigen mensen (in Oekraine dus) te beschermen tegen genocide, nazi’s
Eu volgt mak de vs


Niet echt nieuws. Het is ook niet omdat hij dat zegt dat het allemaal waar is natuurlijk.

[TREBRON]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Nr.10

Nog enkele woorden die duidelijk zijn.

(fig.)

Rusland voert de politiek van de roedel wilde honden. De sterkte hond mag eerst eten en alles afpakken van de anderen.
Het word tijd dat dit land beschaafd word. De oertijd is voorbij Poetin, weet je dat nog niet?

[TREBRON]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Voltian

Niet echt iets nieuws in deze speech; hij zegt:

Sancties doen eu meer pijn dan ussr
Hongersnood in Africa is schuld van eu/vs sancties; ussr wil wel, maar kan niet, door eu/vs
Interventie was nodig als “preemptive strike” om eigen mensen (in Oekraine dus) te beschermen tegen genocide, nazi’s
Eu volgt mak de vs


Niet echt nieuws. Het is ook niet omdat hij dat zegt dat het allemaal waar is natuurlijk.

Die hongersnood zou ook kunnen te maken hebben met de opwarming van het klimaat en de moordende bende van de Wagner bende die in verschillende landen terreur zaait en waar allen Poetin de vruchten van plukt.

[Bach]

Naar aanleiding van de bombardementen op de Donetsk:

"As for the red lines, let me keep them to myself, because this will mean quite tough actions on the decision-making centers. But this is an area that shouldn't be disclosed to people outside the military-political leadership of the country. Those who deserve appropriate actions on our part should draw a conclusion for themselves – what they may face if they cross the line."

[Nr.10]

Voor wie zich eens wat wil amuseren met het vergelijken van de resultaten van zoekrobotten.

Vergeet de YANDEX zoekrobot niet.

Zie: https://yandex.com

Vertalingen door YANDEX Translate zijn onbeperkt in lengte. Hele teksten kunnen vertaald worden, niet slechts een paar lijntjes. De kwaliteit van de vertaling is minstens de gelijke.

Zie: https://translate.yandex.com

[gunter5148]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door patrickve

Uw blinde haat voor de VS - joost mag weten waarom - maakt dat je niet snapt dat Europa en de VS (en de UK, en Australie en Japan en Israel en nog wat zulke landen) "het westen" zijn, ttz, een vergelijkbare visie hebben op hoe met elkaar om te gaan. Dat er binnen die groep natuurlijk ook rivaliteiten zijn en dergelijke is evident, en dat hoort zelfs tot de visie die we delen, namelijk dat concurrentie prima is, maar dat we tegen elkaar geen grof fysisch geweld gebruiken.
De VS is niet anders dan de UK, Frankrijk en Duitsland en zo, maar door de omvang hebben ze uiteraard meer gewicht, maar dat is het dan ook.

Het westen moet van 3 vijanden schrik hebben: de totalitaire Russen, de totalitaire Chinezen, en de waanzinnige moslims. De hoop is lang geweest dat de Russen hun totalitair gedoe achterwege gingen halen, maar met Poetin is dat de verkeerde richting uitgegaan. Dat is heel spijtig. Met de Chinezen en de moslims gaat het hard afrekenen worden.

Uiteindelijk moet de bedoeling zijn dat alle wereldresources grotendeels dienen om de landen van het westen te voorzien in welvaart ; de rest van de wereldbevolking kan getolereerd worden in de mate dat zij daartoe bijdragen, en moet vernietigd worden in de mate dat zij daar concurrentieel voor zijn, laat staan bedreigend. En daarbij is de band tussen de EU en de VS veel belangrijker dan enig vijandschap, want het is niet met de Russen of de Chinezen dat we de resources van de wereld voor ons zullen krijgen he.

Het “westen” is helaas niet meer “niet-totalitair.” We zijn een aantal decennia, na de tweede WO, een lichtend voorbeeld geweest. Maar nu is het blijkbaar een race naar de bodem geworden. De bodem zijnde de effectief totalitaire staat. Getuige de lockdowns en geforceerde, en soms daadwerkelijk verplichte injecties, social credit dat precies nog maar moeilijk zal tegengehouden kunnen worden, cameras met de miljoenen, etc.

[Bach]

Voor de volledigheid. De niet geknipte Sint Petersburg toespraak van Putin
Deel 1

St Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary session (Part 1)
The President attended the plenary session of the 25th St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
The theme this year is New Opportunities in a New World.

* * *

Plenary session moderator Margarita Simonyan: Good afternoon, or almost evening.

As you may know, we had a minor technical issue. Thankfully, it has been dealt with quickly. We are grateful to those who resolved this.

We are also grateful to the audience.

We are grateful to our leader, President Vladimir Putin, for traditionally fitting this forum into his schedule so that he can tell us about economic prospects and other plans.

We are grateful to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for attending our forum. We know that it is not an easy thing to do. Thank you for supporting our forum and our country. We really appreciate this.

We will have a lot of questions today. You may not like some of them, and I may not be happy to ask some of them. We would be much happier to speak only about good things, but this is impossible today.

Mr President, I would like to ask you to take the stand and to tell us what lies in store for us all. Thank you.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Thank you very much. President Tokayev, friends and colleagues,

I welcome all participants and guests of the 25th St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

It is taking place at a difficult time for the international community when the economy, markets and the very principles of the global economic system have taken a blow. Many trade, industrial and logistics chains, which were dislocated by the pandemic, have been subjected to new tests. Moreover, such fundamental business notions as business reputation, the inviolability of property and trust in global currencies have been seriously damaged. Regrettably, they have been undermined by our Western partners, who have done this deliberately, for the sake of their ambitions and in order to preserve obsolete geopolitical illusions.

Today, our – when I say “our,” I mean the Russian leadership – our own view of the global economic situation. I would like to speak in greater depth about the actions Russia is taking in these conditions and how it plans to develop in these dynamically changing circumstances.

When I spoke at the Davos Forum a year and a half ago, I also stressed that the era of a unipolar world order has come to an end. I want to start with this, as there is no way around it. This era has ended despite all the attempts to maintain and preserve it at all costs. Change is a natural process of history, as it is difficult to reconcile the diversity of civilisations and the richness of cultures on the planet with political, economic or other stereotypes – these do not work here, they are imposed by one centre in a rough and no-compromise manner.

The flaw is in the concept itself, as the concept says there is one, albeit strong, power with a limited circle of close allies, or, as they say, countries with granted access, and all business practices and international relations, when it is convenient, are interpreted solely in the interests of this power. They essentially work in one direction in a zero-sum game. A world built on a doctrine of this kind is definitely unstable.

After declaring victory in the Cold War, the United States proclaimed itself to be God’s messenger on Earth, without any obligations and only interests which were declared sacred. They seem to ignore the fact that in the past decades, new powerful and increasingly assertive centres have been formed. Each of them develops its own political system and public institutions according to its own model of economic growth and, naturally, has the right to protect them and to secure national sovereignty.

These are objective processes and genuinely revolutionary tectonic shifts in geopolitics, the global economy and technology, in the entire system of international relations, where the role of dynamic and potentially strong countries and regions is substantially growing. It is no longer possible to ignore their interests.

To reiterate, these changes are fundamental, groundbreaking and rigorous. It would be a mistake to assume that at a time of turbulent change, one can simply sit it out or wait it out until everything gets back on track and becomes what it was before. It will not.

However, the ruling elite of some Western states seem to be harbouring this kind of illusions. They refuse to notice obvious things, stubbornly clinging to the shadows of the past. For example, they seem to believe that the dominance of the West in global politics and the economy is an unchanging, eternal value. Nothing lasts forever.

Our colleagues are not just denying reality. More than that; they are trying to reverse the course of history. They seem to think in terms of the past century. They are still influenced by their own misconceptions about countries outside the so-called “golden billion”: they consider everything a backwater, or their backyard. They still treat them like colonies, and the people living there, like second-class people, because they consider themselves exceptional. If they are exceptional, that means everyone else is second rate.

Thereby, the irrepressible urge to punish, to economically crush anyone who does not fit with the mainstream, does not want to blindly obey. Moreover, they crudely and shamelessly impose their ethics, their views on culture and ideas about history, sometimes questioning the sovereignty and integrity of states, and threatening their very existence. Suffice it to recall what happened in Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya and Iraq.

If some “rebel” state cannot be suppressed or pacified, they try to isolate that state, or “cancel” it, to use their modern term. Everything goes, even sports, the Olympics, bans on culture and art masterpieces just because their creators come from the “wrong” country.

This is the nature of the current round of Russophobia in the West, and the insane sanctions against Russia. They are crazy and, I would say, thoughtless. They are unprecedented in the number of them or the pace the West churns them out at.

The idea was clear as day – they expected to suddenly and violently crush the Russian economy, to hit Russia’s industry, finance, and people's living standards by destroying business chains, forcibly recalling Western companies from the Russian market, and freezing Russian assets.

This did not work. Obviously, it did not work out; it did not happen. Russian entrepreneurs and authorities have acted in a collected and professional manner, and Russians have shown solidarity and responsibility.

Step by step, we will normalise the economic situation. We have stabilised the financial markets, the banking system and the trade network. Now we are busy saturating the economy with liquidity and working capital to maintain the stable operation of enterprises and companies, employment and jobs.

The dire forecasts for the prospects of the Russian economy, which were made in early spring, have not materialised. It is clear why this propaganda campaign was fuelled and all the predictions of the dollar at 200 rubles and the collapse of our economy were made. This was and remains an instrument in an information struggle and a factor of psychological influence on Russian society and domestic business circles.

Incidentally, some of our analysts gave in to this external pressure and based their forecasts on the inevitable collapse of the Russian economy and a critical weakening of the national currency – the ruble.

Real life has belied these predictions. However, I would like to emphasise that to continue being successful, we must be explicitly honest and realistic in assessing the situation, be independent in reaching conclusions, and of course, have a can-do spirit, which is very important. We are strong people and can deal with any challenge. Like our predecessors, we can resolve any task. The entire thousand-year history of our country bears this out.

Within just three months of the massive package of sanctions, we have suppressed inflation rate spikes. As you know, after peaking at 17.8 percent, inflation now stands at 16.7 percent and continues dropping. This economic dynamic is being stabilised, and state finances are now sustainable. I will compare this to other regions further on. Yes, even this figure is too much for us – 16.7 percent is high inflation. We must and will work on this and, I am sure, we will achieve a positive result.

After the first five months of this year, the federal budget has a surplus of 1.5 trillion rubles and the consolidated budget – a surplus of 3.3 trillion rubles. In May alone, the federal budget surplus reached almost half a trillion rubles, surpassing the figure for May 2021 more than four times over.

Today, our job us to create conditions for building up production and increasing supply in the domestic market, as well as restoring demand and bank financing in the economy commensurately with the growth in supply.

I mentioned that we have taken measures to reestablish the floating assets of companies. In most sectors, businesses have received the right to suspend insurance premiums for the second quarter of the year. Industrial companies have even more opportunities – they will be able to delay them through the third quarter as well. In effect, this is like getting an interest-free loan from the state.

In the future, companies will not have to pay delayed insurance premiums in a single payment. They will be able to pay them in equal installments over 12 months, starting in June next year.

Next. As of May the subsidised mortgage rate has been reduced. It is now 9 percent, while the programme has been extended till the end of the year. As I have mentioned, the programme is aimed at helping Russians improve their housing situation, while supporting the home building industry and related industries that employ millions of people.

Following a spike this spring, interest rates have been gradually coming down, as the Central Bank lowers the key rate. I believe that that this allows the subsidised mortgage rate to be further cut to 7 percent.

What is important here? The programme will last until the end of the year without change. It means that our fellow Russians seeking to improve their living conditions should take advantage of the subsidy before the end of the year.

The lending cap will not change either, at 12 million roubles for Moscow and St Petersburg and 6 million for the rest of Russia.

I should add that we must make long-term loans for businesses more accessible. The focus must shift from budget subsidies for businesses to bank lending as a means to spur business activity.

We need to support this. We will allocate 120 billion rubles from the National Wealth Fund to build up the capacity of the VEB Project Financing Factory. This will provide for additional lending to much-needed initiatives and projects worth around half a trillion roubles.

Colleagues,

Once again, the economic blitzkrieg against Russia was doomed to fail from the beginning. Sanctions as a weapon have proved in recent years to be a double-edged sword damaging their advocates and architects just a much, if not more.

I am not talking about the repercussions we see clearly today. We know that European leaders informally, so to say, furtively, discuss the very concerning possibility of sanctions being levelled not at Russia, but at any undesirable nation, and ultimately anyone including the EU and European companies.

So far this is not the case, but European politicians have already dealt their economies a serious blow all by themselves. We see social and economic problems worsening in Europe, and in the US as well, food, electricity and fuel prices rising, with quality of life in Europe falling and companies losing their market edge.

According to experts, the EU’s direct, calculable losses from the sanctions fever could exceed $400 billion this year. This is the price of the decisions that are far removed from reality and contradict common sense.

These outlays fall directly on the shoulders of people and companies in the EU. The inflation rate in some Eurozone countries has exceeded 20 percent. I mentioned inflation in Russia, but the Eurozone countries are not conducting special military operations, yet the inflation rate in some of them has reached 20 percent. Inflation in the United States is also unacceptable, the highest in the past 40 years.

Of course, inflation in Russia is also in the double digits so far. However, we have adjusted social benefits and pensions to inflation, and increased the minimum and subsistence wages, thereby protecting the most vulnerable groups of the population. At the same time, high interest rates have helped people keep their savings in the Russian banking system.

Businesspeople know, of course, that a high key rate clearly slows economic development. But it is a boon for the people in most cases. They have reinvested a substantial amount of money in banks due to higher interest rates.

This is our main difference from the EU countries, where rising inflation is directly reducing the real incomes of the people and eating up their savings, and the current manifestations of the crisis are affecting, above all, low-income groups.

The growing outlays of European companies and the loss of the Russian market will have lasting negative effects. The obvious result of this will be the loss of global competitiveness and a system-wide decline in the European economies’ pace of growth for years to come.

Taken together, this will aggravate the deep-seated problems of European societies. Yes, we have many problems as well, yet I have to speak about Europe now because they are pointing the finger at us although they have enough of their own problems. I mentioned this at Davos. A direct result of the European politicians’ actions and events this year will be the further growth of inequality in these countries, which will, in turn, split their societies still more, and the point at issue is not only the well-being but also the value orientation of various groups in these societies.

Indeed, these differences are being suppressed and swept under the rug. Frankly, the democratic procedures and elections in Europe and the forces that come to power look like a front, because almost identical political parties come and go, while deep down things remain the same. The real interests of people and national businesses are being pushed further and further to the periphery.

Such a disconnect from reality and the demands of society will inevitably lead to a surge in populism and extremist and radical movements, major socioeconomic changes, degradation and a change of elites in the short term. As you can see, traditional parties lose all the time. New entities are coming to the surface, but they have little chance for survival if they are not much different from the existing ones.

The attempts to keep up appearances and the talk about allegedly acceptable costs in the name of pseudo-unity cannot hide the main thing: the European Union has lost its political sovereignty, and its bureaucratic elites are dancing to someone else’s tune, doing everything they are told from on high and hurting their own people, economies, and businesses.

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There are other critically important matters here. The worsening of the global economic situation is not a recent development. I will now go over things that I believe are extremely important. What is happening now does not stem from what happened during recent months, of course not. Moreover, it is not the result of the special military operation carried out by Russia in Donbass. Saying so is an unconcealed, deliberate distortion of the facts.

Surging inflation in product and commodity markets had become a fact of life long before the events of this year. The world has been driven into this situation, little by little, by many years of irresponsible macroeconomic policies pursued by the G7 countries, including uncontrolled emission and accumulation of unsecured debt. These processes intensified with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, when supply and demand for goods and services drastically fell on a global scale.

This begs the question: what does our military operation in Donbass have to do with this? Nothing whatsoever.

Because they could not or would not devise any other recipes, the governments of the leading Western economies simply accelerated their money-printing machines. Such a simple way to make up for unprecedented budget deficits.

I have already cited this figure: over the past two years, the money supply in the United States has grown by more than 38 percent. Previously, a similar rise took decades, but now it grew by 38 percent or 5.9 trillion dollars in two years. By comparison, only a few countries have a bigger gross domestic product.

The EU's money supply has also increased dramatically over this period. It grew by about 20 percent, or 2.5 trillion euros.

Lately, I have been hearing more and more about the so-called – please excuse me, I really would not like to do this here, even mention my own name in this regard, but I cannot help it – we all hear about the so-called ‘Putin inflation’ in the West. When I see this, I wonder who they expect would buy this nonsense – people who cannot read or write, maybe. Anyone literate enough to read would understand what is actually happening.

Russia, our actions to liberate Donbass have absolutely nothing to do with this. The rising prices, accelerating inflation, shortages of food and fuel, petrol, and problems in the energy sector are the result of system-wide errors the current US administration and European bureaucracy have made in their economic policies. That is where the reasons are, and only there.

I will mention our operation, too: yes, it could have contributed to the trend, but the root cause is precisely this – their erroneous economic policies. In fact, the operation we launched in Donbass is a lifeline they are grabbing at to be able to blame their own miscalculations on others, in this case, on Russia. But everyone who has at least completed primary school would understand the true reasons for today's situation.

So, they printed more money, and then what? Where did all that money go? It was obviously used to pay for goods and services outside Western countries – this is where the newly-printed money flowed. They literally began to clean out, to wipe out global markets. Naturally, no one thought about the interests of other states, including the poorest ones. They were left with scraps, as they say, and even that at exorbitant prices.

While at the end of 2019, imports of goods to the United States amounted to about 250 billion dollars a month, by now, it has grown to 350 billion. It is noteworthy that the growth was 40 percent – exactly in proportion to the unsecured money supply printed in recent years. They printed and distributed money, and used it to wipe out goods from third countries’ markets.

This is what I would like to add. For a long time, the United States was a big food supplier in the world market. It was proud, and with good reason, of its achievements, its agriculture and farming traditions. By the way, this is an example for many of us, too. But today, America’s role has changed drastically. It has turned from a net exporter of food into a net importer. Loosely speaking, it is printing money and pulling commodity flows its way, buying food products all over the world.

The European Union is building up imports even faster. Obviously, such a sharp increase in demand that is not covered by the supply of goods has triggered a wave of shortages and global inflation. This is where this global inflation originates. In the past couple of years, practically everything – raw materials, consumer goods and particularly food products – has become more expensive all over the world.

Yes, of course, these countries, including the United States continue importing goods, but the balance between exports and imports has been reversed. I believe imports exceed exports by some 17 billion. This is the whole problem.

According to the UN, in February 2022, the food price index was 50 percent higher than in May 2020, while the composite raw materials index has doubled over this period.

Under the cloud of inflation, many developing nations are asking a good question: why exchange goods for dollars and euros that are losing value right before our eyes? The conclusion suggests itself: the economy of mythical entities is inevitably being replaced by the economy of real values and assets.

According to the IMF, global currency reserves are at $7.1 trillion and 2.5 trillion euros now. These reserves are devalued at an annual rate of about 8 percent. Moreover, they can be confiscated or stolen any time if the United States dislikes something in the policy of the states involved. I think this has become a very real threat for many countries that keep their gold and foreign exchange reserves in these currencies.

According to analyst estimates, and this is an objective analysis, a conversion of global reserves will begin just because there is no room for them with such shortages. They will be converted from weakening currencies into real resources like food, energy commodities and other raw materials. Other countries will be doing this, of course. Obviously, this process will further fuel global dollar inflation.

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