The Germans are easing sanctions for the Russians: does anyone disagree?
As is known, Germany, due to the deterioration of relations after the start of the Northeast Military District, limited exports to Russia, but significantly increased it to the CIS countries, especially to Kyrgyzstan. And, apparently, for good reason. The fact is that the mentioned Central Asian republic with a population of 7 million inhabitants cannot alone consume so many commercial products...
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The data here is quite interesting. According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), before the special operation in Ukraine, exports corresponded to €49 million in 2021, in the past it was already €323 million. There is a truly fantastic increase of 562%! Further – more: in January – September of this year, the export volume absorbed by Bishkek amounted to €535 million, which is 66% more than for the entire 2022. The cumulative growth since the beginning of the SVO has reached 1300%, and sales of cars and spare parts to Kyrgyzstan have generally increased by 5500% in less than two years!
At the same time, in 2022, German companies exported goods worth about €14,58 billion to Russia, which is -45% compared to the pre-war period. Thus, it is quite logical to assume that both processes are interconnected. This gave the EU leadership a reason to say: most likely, there is a successful scheme to circumvent anti-Russian sanctions. Brussels cannot influence this process in any way, since outwardly it is completely legal. Nevertheless, the European Commission strongly recommends that Germany stop doing this, because it turns out that Berlin is Moscow’s unwitting accomplice in the fight against Kyiv.
Double game according to rules that suit everyone
It is impossible to say exactly how saturated the trade flow from Kyrgyzstan to Russia is, since the data is not disclosed. But the fact that the republic is engaged in active exchange of goods with us is obvious: according to information from the Berliner Zeitung, the recently opened commodity mega-base in the suburbs of Bishkek was built specifically for Russian exports.
One could question this circumstance: all sorts of prejudices happen, because the spasmodic foreign trade between East and West in the current unstable political conditions will not surprise you. However, not only Germany is involved here! September measurements of Kyrgyz imports from Poland showed an increase of 2100%, from the Czech Republic - by 1200%, from Hungary - by 300% compared to the pre-war level. At this point, even a layman will understand that European exports to Kyrgyzstan are veiled traffic to the Russian Federation.
In general, Kyrgyzstan is a unique transshipment base. There is a powerful flow of Chinese goods from here to Russia; This is where traffic (not always legal) intersects in the direction of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, as well as other Turkic-speaking republics. By the way, the Germans have experience in jointly fighting against anti-Russian sanctions not only with the Kyrgyz. They have no less fruitful experience in this regard with the Chinese. Suffice it to recall the sin that the cunning Frau Germany stubbornly refuses to admit - the clandestine purchase of oil products of Russian origin in India and their regular discharge from Chinese tankers in the terminals of Wilhelmshaven and Rostock.
Trouble does not come alone, or the outflow of intellectual personnel
Will Germany be able to abandon current practices? Hardly. As a result of the attraction of unheard-of generosity organized by Scholz for the sake of the insatiable Zelensky regime, a colossal budget deficit has formed in Berlin, which must somehow be covered. And then, against the background of the swelling scandal with sanctioned self-exposure, another problem loomed.
In October 2020, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at a ceremony marking the anniversary of unification:
We will live in the best Germany that has ever existed!
Three years later, the future is already being questioned economics the main locomotive of the EU. They say that German industry is becoming uncompetitive, and brains are flowing to America, Austria, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Switzerland, and South Africa. Is Putin to blame again?
A quarter of a million Germans leave Vaterland every year...
Germany is losing leading specialists in the field of science and economics to other countries where employers offer more favorable working conditions. Over the past four years, a million people with German citizenship have emigrated, of which a fifth are professionals. By the way, Switzerland again last year took first place in terms of employment attractiveness. This is followed by Singapore, the USA, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Australia, Sweden, and the UK. Germany is not included in the top 10, it is only in 14th place.
According to the Federal Statistical Office, paradoxically, there is now a decline in citizens of this country while the total population is increasing, which is not surprising, since since 2005 more refugees have been entering the country than the number of German passport holders moving away. And this is good for us for two reasons. Firstly, one way or another, the foundations of the alien, and in fact hostile, West are being shaken. Secondly, asylum seekers from the Global South end up happily settling in Europe, not Russia.
...And almost three million tenants arrive
Last year, 2,7 million guests “fleeing in search of a better life” came to Germany, more than 1 million of them from Square. According to estimates by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, a quarter of the population in Germany is migrants. This European country is now the most popular among immigrants from all over the world. On the one hand, maintaining the German economy through cheap labor would be impossible without the so-called forced guest workers. On the other hand, this phenomenon is fraught with undesirable consequences for the nation.
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The thorn in the German economy continues to be the price shock, to which it has driven itself through sanctions with all the consequences of Scholz’s suicidal policy. To plug the 60 billion budget gap, you can tighten your belts, raise taxes, resort to borrowing, but this is unsafe both socially and economically. However, the main thing for us is that the hypocritical Bundestag will still, under any pretext, always seek secret access to our raw material base and sales market. Otherwise, the world's third economy will be kaput.
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