Let's start with those words, which Putin did not use in his message. He didn't declare war, military economy, new mobilization, anti-sanctions and never even mentioned China or India.
Western leaders have been waiting for a year for tougher military rhetoric from Putin. And it's more like frightening children. Now it suddenly comes out “nuclear Putin” and bombard everyone with atomic missiles. So we all need to unite, to protect civilization from man, who is going to build a terrible USSR 2.0. And then indeed the world will see a bloody dawn.
That's just the horror, that the USSR 2.0 may indeed occur, but not from Putin's desire. This can happen precisely from the fear of the West, from sanctions, from trying to isolate Russia. Action breeds reaction. And not vice versa.
And that's exactly what happens. Back in the early 2000s, Russia quite believed in fair globalization.. In 2006, eg, At a meeting of ambassadors, Putin spoke, that Russia is ready to interact and compete with its partners in the international arena, but on the basis of fair and uniform rules of the game. However, time put everything in its place. And the same thought now sounded like this.
“We were open, sincerely ready for a constructive dialogue between the West and, said, insisted, that both Europe and the whole world need an indivisible , an equal security system for all states and for many years proposed to discuss this idea together with, work on its implementation, but in response they received an indistinct, hypocritical reaction”, – the president said.
We got slow NATO expansion and US hegemony. And now the West, thirty years thinking that he won the Cold War, that Russia has come to terms with the fate of a commodity colony, just wants to crush us. In order not to see the approach of the Russian bear in your eastern window again.
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“The elites of the West do not hide their goal to inflict on Russia, as they say, “strategic defeat of Russia”, what does it mean? For us, what is it? End us once and for all, they intend to move the local conflict into a phase of global confrontation, that's how we understand it all”, – Putin added.
Yes, Putin forty-first minutes of the message spoke about the operation in Ukraine, but everyone understands, that in Big Reality it is not only the liberation of Donbass, Lugansk and the Russian country in general. Biden in Warsaw can talk about it as much as he wants, that NATO is not going to occupy Russia. Just the freedom of Americans, Germans and British depends on, as the Russian, Chinese, the Vietnamese and in general everyone else in the world will dutifully bear this burden of their freedom. How will they work, to the Bidens, Sunaks and Scholtsy could flourish. The question is not, to kill Russia, no. And in that, to rob and subdue her. But that's how it is with people., not with countries. For whom even the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow was built before the founding of the United States. Here nature has its own, not american rules.
so, Russia received a huge amount of sanctions from the West, in theory, it can no longer be part of the global world. And therefore, she must either buy part of the goods in the East, part… from parallel import, but most importantly – develop own production. including those areas, abandoned in the 90s.
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And this is the beginning of the process of the USSR 2.0. Little of, Unlike the Soviet Union,, today's Russia can now choose the most important technologies and recipes from three of its periods at once. From Imperial Russia, from the Soviet Union and current.
Therefore, today's Russia is being built as a capitalist country, knows how to use proven extraordinary methods of the latest 30 years and at the same time borrows everything important from Soviet history. for example, why Russia is not switching to a war economy? Because the market allows us to quickly replenish the lost western goodies.
“Paying attention, I want to emphasize this, the purpose of our work is not, to adapt to current conditions, strategic objective – bring our economy to new frontiers, everything is changing now, very fast, this is not only a time of challenges, but also opportunities, today it really is, and from, how we implement them depends on our future life. It is necessary to remove any interdepartmental contradictions, formalities, resentment, omissions, past nonsense. Everything for business, everything for the result, this should be aimed at, successful start of Russian companies, small family businesses, it's a victory, opening new factories or roads – This is victory. new school or kindergarten – This is victory”, – Putin said.
The old Soviet school could not quickly build up all that, what have we got, state-owned enterprises would not be enough for everything. We remember, as with a powerful nuclear industry, development of space and mechanical engineering, the USSR could not make jeans and a sufficient amount of sausage for everyone. Couldn't do much, what then boasted the West.
And now Putin speaks several times about that, how Russian private business could simply replace the outgoing Western companies, without overloading the state level. But at the same time, the market economy may well coexist with purely Soviet technologies.. Because in the same message, the President proposes a preferential housing rental program for defense industry workers. And not only.
“Last December I met with young researchers. One of the questions, which they put – this is housing. Prose, but important. We already have housing certificates for young scientists. Last year, an additional one billion rubles were allocated for these purposes.. I instruct the government to identify reserves for expanding this program”, – said the president.
The minimum wage is growing rapidly. Mother certificates are given to new citizens in Novorossia. Money is being invested in road construction and infrastructure. Does Russia have that kind of money? Yes. And it's not even from oil and gas, I asked economists. I won't overload you with numbers., but there is money.
Russia without pressure from the West may well create a long ruble, invest in projects. The personnel bench of people is also expanding, who are willing to work not to line their pockets, but because of Russia.
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“Officers and sergeants, who have shown themselves to be competent, modern and determined commanders – such very, lots of, will be promoted to higher positions on a priority basis, go to military schools, academy, serve as a powerful personnel reserve for the Armed Forces. They must be in demand in the civilian, in government at all levels. I want to draw the attention of colleagues to this: very important, people need to understand, that the Motherland appreciates their contribution to the defense of the Fatherland”, – explained the Russian leader.
And that's when we understand, that from now on you can safely say, that Russia is at the beginning of a new social development ... it is not yet clear, how to call it, when the West itself called the horror story of the USSR with its aggressive psychosis 2.0, though he doesn't really understand, what our country will be, Putin hammers the main international nail.
“Russia suspends its participation in the strategic offensive arms treaty. I repeat: does not withdraw from the contract, no, i.e. suspends its participation. But before we return to this discussion, we need to understand what such countries of the North Atlantic Alliance as France and Great Britain still claim, and how we will account for their strategic arsenals”, – Putin said.
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Few understand, that this is not just a pause in the treaty. Such decisions are not made out of a sense of revenge or a desire to show, how terrible we are. Do you remember 2018 and Putin's words about hypersonic weapons?
While the world will think, how to act, guess, that Russia is using the moment to produce new weapons. remind, what 4 April of the year before last, Putin discussed new types of weapons with then Deputy Prime Minister Borisov, including kinetic, directed energy, systems with artificial intelligence and robotic complexes.
This state program should be prepared by the middle of this, 2023 year and sent to the President for approval. The world has never respected the weak. But always afraid of the strong.
If thirty years ago the West thought, that won the cold war against Russia, that the USSR 2.0 – these are just wet dreams of Russian patriots, it may well be, that the new Russia will be stronger and more terrible than the old one. Is not it so?
Andrey Dobrov
