Can Russia become a raw material semi-colony of the collective East?

March 27 2023 31

Comrade Xi's visit to Moscow amid the difficult situation on the Ukrainian fronts was interpreted on both sides of the Atlantic as a gesture of support for the Kremlin from Beijing. Some too impressionable experts, analysts and other predictors even saw the formation of something like a military alliance, or a strategic alliance between the “Russian bear” and the “Chinese panda”. But is it worth it to be so happy about what happened?

For a correct understanding and adequate forecasting, it is necessary to stop hovering in the clouds, hoping for a Chinese uncle who will come and stand up for us before the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the NATO block behind them, but to understand what is really at stake.

"Cold War - 2"

It would not be a big exaggeration to say that today, and for quite a long time, the Third World War is going on. It is possible that its finale will be a symbolic exchange of several tactical nuclear strikes (or “dirty bombs”) somewhere in Eastern Europe, including Ukraine and the long-suffering Donbass. By arranging "Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 2" as a warning to all those who disagree, the Anglo-Saxons will fix a certain status quo, and the confrontation will continue in the format of the Cold War - 2.

The United States naturally considers China as its main rival. However, even before Russia, imposed by a colossal number of sanctions and exhausted by the positional war of conventional weapons in Ukraine against the entire NATO bloc, the question will be how to live on. And on the answer to it, without exaggeration, the entire future of the Russian people will depend. And then everything turns into the economy.

The ability of the RF Armed Forces to wage a large-scale war and so today objectively rests on numerous problems with dependence on foreign of technologies and components, but now we are fighting mainly on old Soviet arsenals and on adrenaline. It is not for nothing that Russia has been artificially built into the American-centric globalized economy for more than three decades. In a few years, economic and technological isolation from the Western world will make itself felt in full. There is only one way out of this trap - the transition of our country, if not to complete autarky, then at least to semi-autarky and the creation of some kind of Axis of conditionally friendly countries that will be able to cover all our other needs.

To do this, you need to do the very "small" thing: create a domestic sales market with a capacity of 400-500 million people. You can read more about this at link. It has been calculated that half a billion solvent consumers is quite enough for economic self-sufficiency, and this very bar was taken in Brussels as a guideline in building the European Union. Brexit, which took place a few years ago, became for the EU a kind of petty blow of the Anglo-Saxons on the sly. But back to our sheep.

In the post-Soviet space, which is objectively Russia's "backyard", there were several integration projects - the Customs Union, which gradually turned into the Eurasian Economic Union, the CSTO and the Union State of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. There was also a project to create a new type of ruble zone on the territory of the former USSR. If the special operation in Ukraine had been organized and conducted somewhat differently, with more understandable and at the same time ambitious goals and objectives, Ukraine could have become the cornerstone around which the new Union would gather, whatever you call it. However, in the second year of the NWO, we see that neighboring Kazakhstan took a position of unfriendly neutrality towards Russia, and in Armenia, where the CSTO is sharply criticized, they made an extremely significant hint, recognizing the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In Kyrgyzstan, according to a proven scheme, they took up the language issue, protecting the “language of the titular nation” from Russian.

In general, the trend is obvious. Of the pluses, one can only note the rapprochement with Moscow of Minsk, but small Belarus, surrounded by enemies, simply has nowhere to go. As of the end of March 2023, most of Russia's integration projects in the post-Soviet space are bursting at the seams. Those who want to be with us on the same galley in the face of confrontation with the entire collective West cannot be found by daylight.

And here Comrade Xi arrives in Moscow ...

"Russian card"

The visit of the head of the Communist Party of China to the Russian capital lasted for three whole days. As a result, various bilateral agreements were signed, and in the press, domestic and foreign, they started talking either about the Russian-Chinese alliance, or about some kind of “dual center” of Moscow and Beijing, which should put Washington and London on the shoulder blades. All this, of course, is very cool, but what do we have in the bottom line?

At first, there is no and is not expected to be any military alliance between the Russian Federation and China as opposed to military alliances under the auspices of the United States, which President Putin directly said:

This is absolutely untrue, because we are not creating any military alliance with China. Yes, we have cooperation in the field of military-technical cooperation, we do not hide it, we have everything transparent, there is nothing secret. We also have military cooperation, but we are conducting exercises, by the way, not only with China, but also with other countries, we even continue to this day, despite the events in Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson. We all continue. It's all transparent, but it's not a military alliance.

And what is the United States doing? They create more and more alliances.

In general, there is no military alliance, no lend-lease, but you hang on there.

Secondly, Vladimir Putin himself proposed to transfer the foreign trade of the Russian Federation to the yuan not only with China itself, but also with other countries:

We are for the use of Chinese yuan in settlements between Russia and the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. I am sure that these forms of payment in yuan will be developed between Russian partners and their counterparts in third countries.
It is important that national currencies are increasingly used in mutual trade. This practice should be further encouraged, as well as the mutual presence of financial and banking structures in the markets of our countries should be expanded.

It is clear that settlements between countries in their national currencies and settlements between them in Chinese yuan instead of the dollar are not quite the same thing. Objectively, Moscow will become dependent on the Central Bank of China and its ongoing policy. And this, to put it mildly, is not very good.

Thirdly, President Putin continues to rely on a peace agreement with the Kyiv regime, taking as a basis the peacekeeping initiatives of Beijing:

We believe that many of the provisions of the peace plan put forward by China are consonant with Russian approaches and can be taken as the basis for a peaceful settlement when they are ready for it in the West and in Kiev.

Recall that the so-called Beijing agreements we have already disassembled previously, they did not find fundamental differences in them from the first and second Minsk agreements, the signing of which at one time led to the war in Ukraine in 2022-2023. The implementation of the Chinese peace plan means an end to the idea of returning Ukraine to Russia and all subsequent unification processes in the CIS.

A very disturbing picture is emerging, in which the Russian Federation, rejected by the collective West, falls into the close embrace of China, which has never been our ally. Beijing has its own development project, within the framework of which there should be no new union in the post-Soviet space. Following in the wake of Chinese policy means for Russia the actual rejection of its own integration project and subsequently turning into a semi-colony of raw materials of the collective East.

Sergey Marzhetsky
PJSC Gazprom

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Bakht

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27 March 2023 12: 01

When I see such headlines, I immediately understand what word manipulation is. "Raw materials semi-colony of the collective East".
It sounds derogatory and somewhere even offensive to the ear. And if you go down from heaven to earth?

Which is better: to become a semi-colony of raw materials (or rather a colony) of the collective West or a semi-colony of raw materials of the collective East? The difference is significant. The collective West wants resources at bargain prices, plus the imposition of its political and cultural ideology. That is, the collective West wants to turn Russia into a full-fledged colony.
The collective East wants the same resources from Russia, but at low (not bargain prices). The price ceiling and customs protective duties, like the West, the East does not require. And the LGBT-type program, juvenile justice, the education system also does not require its own program.

Switching to yuan trading? And what to trade? For dollars? Or for rubles? The yuan is objectively becoming a significant currency in the global economy and gaining new heights. The dollar, on the contrary, is losing these heights. Trading in rubles, of course, is nice. But the reality is (and this is noted in the article) that the capacity of the ruble zone is insignificant. I would say microscopic in world trade turnover.

Go to full autarchy. Not a single country in the world will succeed. Even the United States or China cannot fully switch to autarchy. Moreover, it will not work for Russia.

So. Three ways of development.
1. Relying on the West. Become their complete colony, admit defeat, pay reparations to Kyiv and give up all territories inhabited by Russian people.
2. Leaning towards the East. Supply resources at low prices (but not for free), obtain missing components, establish parallel imports and crush the Nazis in full. Including those in Europe. And gradually align economic relations with the East. The path is slow, but quite real.
3. Autarky. Slow death. Both East and West will take part in the murder of Russia. For the simple reason that resources are needed by both.

If someone knows the fourth way of development, I will listen with pleasure.
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2. hell MASTER
  
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  27 March 2023 15: 47
  
  What kind of nonsense about a bad West? GDP itself was proud that Germany gets gas for 200 when it costs 600 on the market. Wake up, Russia has been giving Europe a freebie for 20 years, strategists.
  
  In Europe, gas prices are going through the roof, while Russia sells gas to some of its partners for more than 10 times cheaper, this will stabilize their economy, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters during a press conference following his visit to the EAEU summit in Kyrgyzstan.
  
  “If in Europe the prices for the same gas go off scale... 1700 was already the day before yesterday, here in some countries we sell gas more than 10 times cheaper, you understand? Not just 10, but more than 10 times cheaper. economies of our partner countries, they can predict their development," Putin said.
  
  He stressed that the market was influenced by the erroneous decision of European countries to switch to gas purchases on the spot market.
  
  "Please, go and buy - 1,5 thousand euros per thousand cubic meters. And we sell them five times cheaper, we actually subsidize the European economy. And it's the same in everything, it's the same in the States (according to other resources - approx. TASS ),” the head of state said.
  
  We supply gas to Germany under long-term contracts, and the price is four, six, seven times cheaper than on the spot. Even by reselling one billion cubic meters of gas, you can earn almost a billion dollars, 900 something. This is business.
  
  A good president, you can’t say anything, he thinks about partners)
3. Nikolay Volkov
  
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  29 March 2023 06: 27
  
  The difference is significant. The collective West wants resources at bargain prices
  
  yes, but for some reason, China buys fuel at bargain prices from Russia and Turkey is trying ... but not Germany ... that is, from the very beginning of the text, there is a complete misunderstanding of what is happening ...
  
  further, you write that trading for yuan, not for rubles ... sorry, but what is this if not the status of a colony? the yuan is now far from being a dollar, euro or even a pound ... but even in front of SUCH a yuan you are ALREADY on your knees ...
  
  and the last thing ... it’s not clear why you call the development of your economy slow death ... slow death is just colonial dependence, both on the West and on the East ... which was proved by 30 years of dependence on the West ... yes and these 30 years were largely spent on the Soviet legacy, which consisted precisely in relying on one's own strength ...
  
  it’s another matter that with a population of 146 million, of which 30 million are “effective” managers and other crackers, you can’t build any productive economy ... therefore, Russia has two ways: either to be a colony (it doesn’t matter whose) and continue to rot, or develop the country. but for true power, a country must increase in numbers in order to create a powerful domestic market. you need to restore the territories of the former USSR (RI, if anyone) ... and then with a market close to 200-230 million, you can think about something ... and 146 million, and even those that are rapidly dying out and the figure is kept only due to the influx migrants, nothing significant can be built on OUR territory
Nelton

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27 March 2023 12: 22

Russia, rejected by the collective West, is falling into the close embrace of China, which is never our ally. Beijing has its own development project, within the framework of which there should be no new Union in the post-Soviet space. Following in the wake of Chinese policy means for Russia the actual rejection of its own integration project and subsequently turning into a semi-colony of raw materials of the collective East.

On the whole, yes, and it was easily calculated.
Accordingly, the West did not need a conflict with the Russian Federation at all - China received cheap resources and a sales market instead of the West.

Now the Russian economy simply has no other options but to replace Western components with operationally localized + Chinese ones, in a proportion of good if 50 to 50, and build infrastructure to the east at an accelerated pace (which is being done).
1. Bakht
  
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  27 March 2023 14: 30
  
  It follows from your words that Russia needed the conflict. It was the West that needed the conflict. They just made a mistake in the West. Russia survived.
  1. Nelton
    
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    27 March 2023 14: 51
    
    Quote: Bakht
    It follows from your words that Russia needed the conflict.
    
    It was Russia that started the NWO, that's a fact.
    Although in the economic scenarios, Russia absolutely does not need this conflict.
    
    In the stories about the fact that if not, then literally on 25/02, the Nazis would have rushed with javelins to seize the Crimea by an advantage - there are too many inconsistencies, and too interested comrades are moving this version ...
    1. Bakht
      
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      27 March 2023 15: 17
      
      It was Russia that was FORCED to start NWO.
      For 8 years, Russia has been pushing Donbass into Ukraine. It was Ukraine that started the war in 2014. This should not be forgotten.
      
      And try to find the answer to the question. Why did Germany attack the USSR in 1941? After all, the USSR supplied Germany with everything necessary. For exactly the same reason, Russia has been provoked to war since 2014.
      1. Nelton
        
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        27 March 2023 15: 44
        
        Quote: Bakht
        It was Ukraine that started the war in 2014.
        
        civil war. with its citizens, on its territory.
        
        Quote: Bakht
        Russia provoked to war
        
        Why Ukraine provoked is more or less clear.
        Precisely in order to be the frontier of the West against Mordor and receive preferences from the West.
        The West shied away from the imposition of sanctions as much as possible without losing the image of the "defender of democracies." Although they could have been slapped after 8/8/8, and after the events of 2014.
        
        That's why Russia succumbed to provocations?
        Would have withstood at least an academic pause,
        1 warning against shelling our allies,
        2 warning, ultimatum - and only after that would they give the allies launchers for retaliatory strikes + providing data from the Aerospace Forces.
        
        In parallel, taking out the civilian population in Ulan-Ude and Nizhny Tagil.
        
        But it's all slapping on the cheeks with the ears, the train has left.
        We need to develop the economy in the conditions that we have.
        Today, almost the first ABS production in the country was opened in Kostroma.
        https://adm44.ru/news/detail.php/140529
        In this aspect.
        
        Bakht
        
        +1
        
        27 March 2023 17: 18
        
        You are sure of one thing. I'm in another. There was no time. Although you say that
        
        In the stories about the fact that if not, then literally on 25/02, the Nazis would have rushed with javelins to seize the Crimea by an advantage - there are too many inconsistencies, and too interested comrades are moving this version
        
        I'm sure that's exactly what happened. There are too many facts that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would have launched an offensive operation in March.
        
        Too many times and too often, Russia has warned about the inadmissibility of shelling the civilian population. The West has firmly set its course for war.
        So the WSO started on time. Maybe even a little too late. And tell about the civil war in Kyiv. For 8 years there they claimed that there was no civil war. I personally communicated with Ukrainians from Kyiv. On several forums. For them, the words "civil war" is like a red rag to a bull.
        
        In any case, it is necessary to develop the economy. SVO has nothing to do with it. The West set a course for blocking and strangling Russia long before 2014. How many years have I been saying that Europe is an unreliable consumer. And the turn to the East was predetermined precisely by the policy of the West.
        
        Nelton
        
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        27 March 2023 17: 34
        
        Quote: Bakht
        The West set a course for blocking and strangling Russia long before 2014.
        
        The West has built much more factories in Russia than China.
        And transferred more technology.
        And much better than China, took our products (from plywood to SSJ).
        Is it suffocation?
        
        Too many times and too often, Russia has warned about the inadmissibility of shelling the civilian population.
        
        De jure, this was interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine until 23.02.22
        
        There are too many facts that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would have launched an offensive operation in March.
        
        yeah yeah, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already received 2000 Eurofighters and 10000 MQ-9s from the West, and only the strike of the Aerospace Forces on airfields thwarted the plans of the insidious enemy ...
        
        Against the LDNR in the status of "uncontrolled territories" they might have started.
        And that is not a fact.
        Against the allies of the Russian Federation - it is unlikely.
        
        Bakht
        
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        27 March 2023 23: 00
        
        The devil is in the details. Factories were built and even technologies were transferred. On what terms? This is the main thing to pay attention to.
        
        I wrote about the supply of weapons to Kyiv earlier. There was no need to supply heavy weapons. All this was part of the Armed Forces. The first strike of the LDNR would not have survived. You don't have to yell. The strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was being prepared and there is a lot of evidence for this.
        
        It was against the LDNR that the strike was being prepared. And this is beyond doubt. Or was the APU grouping in Donbas preparing for defense? Well, they already wrote to me that they built fortified areas. So we were ready to defend ourselves. It is not clear from whom.
        
        So much has been said about double standards that it is simply indecent to recall them again. Kyiv purposefully destroyed people on a national and cultural basis. This is genocide. And naturally received a military operation.
        
        For those who say that Russia is the aggressor and the first to attack poor Ukraine, I always advise you to read an interesting document. It's called the Declaration of Independence. Literally the first lines.
        Wikipedia has an interesting phrase.
        
        Many mistakenly believe that the Declaration of Independence is a document according to which the United States received the legal right to become an independent country. In fact, it is more of a solemn than a legal document, The United States gained its independence as a result of the war.
        
        By the way, one of the countries that helped the American colonies gain independence was Russia.
        
        Donbass received the right to independence in full accordance with the American principles of freedom. And he will assert this right by war. But only. There is no other option. With the help of Russia. How Russia once helped America gain independence.
        
        Nelton
        
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        28 March 2023 09: 45
        
        Quote: Bakht
        . Or was the APU grouping in Donbas preparing for defense?
        
        Definitely prepared, and seriously prepared, which gives its result - for more than a year we have not been able to break through that defense.
        
        The first strike of the LDNR would not have survived.
        
        If they were preparing for defense in the same way as the Armed Forces of Ukraine, then they would have survived the tenth.
        
        Kyiv purposefully destroyed people on a national and cultural basis.
        
        Hutus and Tutsis are slaughtering each other in the same way, and Armenians and Azerbaijanis - and what does it matter to the households of Penza and Kostroma?
        There is the UN, let them have a headache.
        Yes, it's all exaggerated.
        As soon as it arose real a threat to life (after the start of the NWO), so the inhabitants of Ukraine broke off in millions and rushed to the western regions and the EU with one suitcase. In the meantime, the Nazis were "outrageous" - there was no queue for moving to that Penza and Kostroma.
        
        Conclusion - it is not necessary to suffer geopolitics and worry about citizens other countries, but to equip and develop their Penza and Uryupinski.
        Well, unfold the Sarmatians, yes ..
        well, now also air defense / missile defense, and concrete the entire front-line territory. and highly vulnerable infrastructure elements - and much deeper ...
        And it’s stupid to be indignant, “but for what we are ...” ...
        
        Factories were built and even technologies were transferred. On what terms?
        
        On ours, in accordance with SPIK-2, etc.
      2. Nikolay Volkov
        
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        29 March 2023 06: 42
        
        instead of asking stupid questions, they would open a book and read it ... the goal of Drang nah Osten was to expand the living space of the German nation ... they didn’t need grain from the USSR, they needed territory. to live there by your own rules and not depend on other people's supplies ... therefore, comparing Ukraine and Germany is simply ridiculous ...
        
        and what about Ukraine started the war in 2014 ... ahem, but don’t remind Ukraine of Crimea who scratched it? it’s just that Russia demonstrated that it would defend the peninsula and the Ukrainians didn’t poke their noses ... and the “great geostrategist” decided to exchange Donbass for Crimea ... they say we won out as best we can, but if you recognize Crimea-nyash, then we will give you the ball .. .but overestimated his abilities and ended up being grabbed by the nose and led by him for 8 years ... during which the West strengthened Ukraine ... if Putin showed a desire to protect the Donbass not in blah blah blah (let them just try to shoot at those behind whose backs we will stand), but in fact, there would be no war in the Donbass ... THEN the militia with volunteers and minimal help from the RF Armed Forces would have coped (Kiev, of course, they would not have taken ... but Mariupol, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk would be under the militia) ... remember that it was when Strelkov left the Donbass and the "north wind" blew ... Ukrainians MASSIVELY ended up in boilers, went across the border of the Russian Federation and surrendered ... but one character remained without bells to stand BEHIND the children and women of Donbass ... and when, after 8 years, he decided to playin a bunker de-communizer, the situation in the Ukrainian army was already different ... and now ordinary men are paying for his cowardice and short-sightedness with their lives ... while Ylita, like the son-in-law of one plywood marshal, grimaces in Dubai and respects the opinion of a "foreign agent", and in Russian speaking an outspoken traitor and enemy of Dudya
    2. Nikolay Volkov
      
      +1
      
      29 March 2023 06: 30
      
      The NWO did not start on February 24.02.2022, 2014, but in February-March XNUMX ... it’s just that then someone didn’t have enough bells ... he was lured by the Crimea and slowed down so as not to go further. and the Ukrainians at that time began to be influenced by aggressive propaganda. And very well, by the way...
      
      and ours, without bells, rested on its laurels for 8 years, held exhibitions, biathlons and all sorts of competitions for military chefs ...
Colonel Kudasov

+1

27 March 2023 12: 28

As whom Russia will enter the "collective East" will depend entirely on Russia itself. To do this, you need to really concentrate on your own East, Siberia. But resting in Moscow and Sochi, listening to the victorious reports of officials, nothing will change. A landmark act of the authorities should be a state-scale project, the transfer of the country's capital to Siberia, most likely to the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
1. Nelton
  
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  27 March 2023 13: 25
  
  Quote: Colonel Kudasov
  A landmark act of the authorities should be a state-scale project, the transfer of the country's capital to Siberia
  
  The transfer of capitals is an expensive undertaking.
  Now, even without this, there are enough urgent tasks, even if we take a single construction industry.
  From rolling in concrete 25 km of the frontline zone and building housing for evacuees from that frontline zone (possible in the Krasnoyarsk Territory), to really necessary infrastructure in Siberia and the Far East. Well, current projects should go on as usual.
vlad127490

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27 March 2023 13: 29

Considering the question of which host (metropolis) is better is stupid. It is not connected with cardinal directions West - East. A colony or a semi-colony initially implies slavery and there is no need to play with words, as, for example, a collaborator is now used instead of the word traitor, the liberals are shitcrats hiding their true face. The enemy is sitting inside, this is the comprador power, the fifth column in the Russian Federation. What is the best currency in the world, I will say, it is GOLD. Gold reserves on Earth are limited, it is not renewable, it becomes less in the bowels every year. There is gold on other planets, asteroids, etc., but this is a story of the distant future. Now, when the Russian Federation is ruined by the capitalists and there is a question of the survival of the Russian people, in the conditions of hostilities, you can trade and make a profit, and you can benefit even with the devil. So the question is not in the dollar, euro, yuan, rupee, yen, tugrik ......, but in favor, you have to be a pragmatist.
Victor M.

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27 March 2023 13: 29

Already tired of the mantras about the "resource economy". In Norway, per capita oil is produced 6 times more than in Russia and they do not worry about the name of their economy. No one argues that it is necessary to develop other areas, but also to abandon raw materials, stupidity. And in such articles they do not offer anything sensible, they only whine.
1. whitebeard
  
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  27 March 2023 17: 08
  
  So the difference between how Norway and Russia use their income from resources is enormous. Because Norway got access to these resources when it was already a developed state, able to survive well without a resource pie, and Russia much earlier, being still in a backward autocratic form after the breaking of the Mongol yoke, began to look for cheap resources in the east, found them and thus by the very availability of these resources, it preserved its own backwardness for many centuries.
  Moreover, the population in Norway is 100 times smaller, so the raw material rent there is much more significant in terms of 1 person, especially since, albeit indirectly, it goes to the residents on pensions and social programs, and not to the budget and oligarchic pockets, where all this is sawn up, and the crumbs that remain are declared incomes of the "middle class from 17 thousand rubles / month")) So the comparison of the raw material rent of Norway and the Russian Federation is incorrect, although outwardly it seems to be the same raw material rent.
  1. Vladimir Tuzakov
    
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    28 March 2023 16: 31
    
    Replica. You are wrong, before hydrocarbons, Norway was the poorest country in Europe, it mainly supplied only fish. Now it has become the richest country on fossil hydrocarbons - there are few people, huge export earnings. Correctly noted, the difference is that the profit is not with a handful of officials and others, as in the Russian Federation, but is more distributed among the population by various health care programs, infrastructure, etc. Receipts from minerals are a great blessing only when they serve society, but not a handful of the elect.
    1. Victor M.
      
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      April 2 2023 13: 35
      
      And what, they live 6 times better? Tales that "they don't steal in the West" are already tired of everyone.
Scharnhorst

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27 March 2023 13: 33

The implementation of the Chinese peace plan means an end to the idea of returning Ukraine to Russia and all subsequent unification processes in the CIS.

Finally, the understanding is beginning to come that our country does not need ALL Ukraine from the word "completely." Who does not remember the attempts of the Union to make the Baltic republics a "European showcase of the USSR"? It is now in the entire Baltic region that the population is less than in St. Petersburg and the region. And in Ukraine, which has been corrupted for 30 years, there are many times more hungry people and dead people brought up. And, God forbid, the accession of all this post-industrial space and the hostile population to the Russian Federation will become a life-saving brick around the neck of the Russian economy. The United States is wisely using Haiti, which is ready to "join" with either a carcass or a scarecrow. In the same way, we must educate the local population (Outskirts). And for lovers of association with a capital letter, there is an object simpler and smaller (Belarus) - train!
Sergey Latyshev

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27 March 2023 13: 50

And next to it is an enthusiastic article "The Dual Center of Russia and China ....", what is now, with Putin's "friend" SI, both Ukraine and Omerika are definitely KirdyK ..

And they have already become a semi-colony, in the Soviet term - "neo-colony", IMHO.
We are their raw material. The media, choking with joy, write about it.
They are our beads of the 21st century. Electronics, electrical, fasteners, cars and more.

Neo-just differs not in direct, but in economic management.
They are sanctions for us, we are for them - record trade with NATO and the chic life of the children of the elite on the money pumped out ....
1. Nelton
  
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  27 March 2023 14: 12
  
  Quote: Sergey Latyshev
  And a semi-colony, according to the Soviet term - "neo-colony", IMHO, has already become.
  
  "Gas in exchange for pipes", "oil in exchange for grain", and other things "under this antires I will fuse hemp and wood for them" have been around since time immemorial.
  Compulsory schemes for the supply of Tu-134s in exchange for Ikarus were abandoned as soon as it became possible to refuse. And even in these schemes, the RSFSR as a whole was a raw material appendage of the Western republics of the USSR and the CMEA countries.
  so "have already become" is incorrect, rather "always were".
  
  In the last 10 years, they seem to have found a scheme for how to get out of this -
  for access to the Russian market, to persuade TNCs to localize, and then export the surplus of localized products.
  Just before the NWO, TransMashHolding won a tender for the supply of 70 trains to Argentina...
  But a year ago it was all cancelled.
  
  The next year, 3-7 years is not up to fat, at least somehow to support the economy and infrastructure.
  After that, we will see what chances localized products have in the markets of Asia-Africa-Latin America. Perhaps there will be a certain demand from those who are burdened by excessive dependence on the West.
steelmaker

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27 March 2023 14: 26

It makes no difference to me whether it is a colony or a semi-colony. This suggests that we do not and will not have the production of means of production. As we traded our Motherland, we will continue to trade! Only with China. Even the NWO did not set the brains of the hucksters. As long as Putin is in power, trade with the Motherland will come first, Russia's interests in second, and maybe last.
1. Sergei Fonov
  
  +1
  
  27 March 2023 18: 52
  
  It is not known how the SVO will end, but I think it’s not very good for us if everything goes as it goes. It is probably stupid to call for Soviet patriotism during the Second World War fighters who grew up in a capitalist country. Merchants spoke about trade in tsarist Russia in the first place, but honor is more expensive, now times are different, and even modern merchants have different morals.
Alex D

0

27 March 2023 15: 40

From colony to semi-colony is already good.
Alex D

0

27 March 2023 16: 03

Russia has a chance to annex the weakening countries of Eastern Europe, because. without Russian cheap resources, they will not last long, and it may be beneficial for the states, because. a rising Russia could weaken China a little in the long run.
1. Nikolay Volkov
  
  +3
  
  29 March 2023 06: 56
  
  sorry, what planet do you live on?
  
  who won't last? What is Latvia? so it has no industry for a long time, the population is rapidly declining ... by the way, how does Russia differ from Latvia except in scale ??? the same dying country, whose indigenous population is massively replaced by migrants ... in Latvia, at least there are not so many migrants ... the same dying industry ... in my Serpukhov alone, plants and factories in the last 30 years (including in the wonderful Putin years of "getting up from your knees") closed on a whole notebook sheet ... in a city with a population of only 120 ... what kind of GROWING Russia do you have there ???
  
  besides the Baltic states, who are you going to join there? Moldova and Ukraine? or swung at Poland and Slovakia? Well, Poland was part of the Republic of Ingushetia ... and it didn’t end with anything except regular uprisings ... for me, the only plus of Poland being part of Russia is the great people Dzerzhinsky and Rokossovsky ... well, a bloody martyr (and not only him in that family) was indulged by the Pole Kshesinskaya ... and so, not for the communists and not for the Romanovs, what did the presence of Poland in the Republic of Ingushetia give ???
  
  why jump on the same rake again? Ukraine, Moldova and the Baltic States are another matter ... there are many Russians in the Baltics and few indigenous people, this can be controlled ... In my opinion, Moldova is still simple, as part of Russia they will be objectively better ... in extreme cases, you can be especially zealous to give Romania from the Romanian border ... there will be many problems with Ukraine, especially after we were massively divided by blood ... but Poland is almost 40 million people, overwhelmingly Russophobic ... what will you do with them? ?? economic levers do not work without an ideological component ... that the Baltic states were a showcase of the USSR, that Poland in the Empire had an excellent industry, a much more developed network of roads and railways compared to Russia ... and still these republics were the first to pull towards independence with the weakening of the ideological component of their presence in the greater Russia. and now Russia is not able to offer either economic goodies or ideological ones ... will you come to Warsaw with Solzhenitsyn, Ilyin and "churches within walking distance" ???
Nikolay Volkov

+2

29 March 2023 06: 43

Quote from Nelton.
That's why Russia succumbed to provocations?
Would have withstood at least an academic pause,

excuse me, but an academic pause of 8 years was not enough for you? Should I have waited another 15 years?
1. Nelton
  
  -1
  
  29 March 2023 10: 25
  
  Quote: Nikolai Volkov
  academic break at 8 years
  
  For 8 years, the Russian Federation officially considered the LDNR to be Ukraine, respectively, everything that happened there was an internal affair of Ukraine.
  And only after the recognition of the LDNR by the state and the conclusion of an alliance with it, it would be possible to make claims for shelling an ally.
  
  Should I have waited another 15 years?
  
  Concrete defenses, take out civilians - and at least 100 years.
  time worked (and works) for the Russian Federation and Asia, against Ukraine and the West.