Translated by Scott Humor
Vladimir Putin’s speech at SPIEF 2019 is, on the one hand, a sequel to his famous “Munich speech”, and on the other hand, a claim for Russia’s most active participation in reforms (or even a takedown) of the existing international order, at once–in politics, economy, and technology. Also, the Russian leader once again turned out to be the only world politician who had the wisdom and courage to call a spade a spade, to voice what is being said in diplomatic lobbies, and to give a correct description of what is happening in the world.
And in the world, unfortunately, we have a war—”the first technology war of the new digital era.” Its results will affect world history no less than the industrial revolution of the XIX century, World War I, the Great Patriotic war and the Cold War. Not participating is impossible and won’t work, which equally applies to China (which so far has been the main target for Washington’s blows), and to all other countries (including Russia) that the US wants to keep in a state of technological backwardness and technological dependence on American corporations and the whims of American politicians.
When serious political leaders, such as President Putin or President XI, talk about the large-scale conflicts and threats that Washington’s aggression poses to world stability, the Western media often (and absolutely groundlessly) accuse them of using the “rhetoric of a besieged fortress” and trying to awaken anti-American feelings in their own people. In fact, as it is easy to see after the famous “give-away of cookies” in Kiev and sanctions (plus attempts to bankrupt) against Huawei and ZTE, no one will ever surpass the American politicians and diplomats themselves in strengthening anti-American emotions from Kaliningrad to Hainan.
An important point of Vladimir Putin’s speech is a detailed enumeration of painful points (or, quite frankly, rotting wounds) of the current international system, the amount of which makes us think that the “king” (or in this case —”hegemon”) was, if not naked, then definitely in rags.
The point of no return was passed about a decade ago, when Washington (with the support of the Brussels bureaucracy) refused to reform the world economy, the format of development and the international monetary system, giving a clear preference to measures that “anesthetized” the consequences of the 2008 crisis, but led to serious side effects. The Russian leader described logic and fallacy of a strategy to maintain the status quo: “However, truth be told, there was not enough will or, perhaps, courage, to sort things out and draw the corresponding conclusions. A simplified approach prevailed whereby the global development model was allegedly quite good and, essentially, nothing needed to be changed since it was enough to eliminate the symptoms and coordinate some rules and institutions in the global economy and finance, and then everything would turn out just fine. There were many hopes and positive expectations back then, but they quickly vanished. Quantitative easing and other measures failed to resolve the problems and only pushed them into the future.”
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/60707
It is worth to translate into ordinary Russian language those polite formulations of the Russian President, which were addressed to businessmen, financiers and economists present at the SPIEF. The same “quantitative easing” and other measures pointed out by Vladimir Putin, in fact, boil down to the following: the United States, instead of recognizing the need for reform of the world economy and the monetary system, began to use first the dollar printing press, and then the “dollar sanctions” (disconnection from the dollar financial system, “secondary sanctions” and the embargo) in order to crush competitors and maintain American hegemony, for which there are no objective grounds.
In this context, it is worth quoting the position of a famous American financier and head of the investment Fund DoubleLine Capital Jeffrey Gundlach (better known as the “king of bonds”), who tweeted: “President Trump says that the US is a “piggy bank” from which the rest of the world tried to steal. But the US has $124 trillion in unfunded liabilities!”
There are two (fundamentally incompatible) views on the modern world: Trump’s view (and many others in Washington) which suggests that the US is the victim of the rest of the world—and this position is often publicly mocked by the known American financiers.
And there is Vladimir Putin’s view, which showed on the basis of statistics from international financial institutions that the claims not only of the US, but of the “collective West” to global domination are already groundless: “In the past three decades, the share of advanced countries in the global GDP in purchasing power parity decreased from 58 to 40 percent. In the G7 it dropped from 46 to 30 percent, whereas the weight of the countries with developing markets is growing. Such rapid development of new economies that, apart from their interests, have their own development platforms and views on globalisation and regional integration processes does not correlate well with the ideas that seemed immutable relatively recently.”
It turns out that this is the American President who resorts to the rhetoric of a “besieged fortress” (or rather, “besieged piggy bank”), while the Russian leader offers specific solutions for the conservation of pluses of globalization in reforming its bases: instead of respecting the American hegemony, Putin offers to put at the forefront the respect for the sovereignty of participants of the international trade and technical cooperation.
It may seem (and our Western partners, as well as their media allies within Russia, will do everything to promote this illusion) that the President’s message sent to the West within the SPIEF is initially doomed to remain without a positive answer. This view of things does not correspond to reality, because it does not reflect reality in all its complexity and completeness. Yes, official Washington is unlikely to agree to participate in the Russian-Chinese format of “globalization based on respect for sovereignty,” but this is not so important, because the White House is not the whole of America, and the European Commission is not the whole of Europe. Businessmen-pragmatists look at the situation from a completely different angle. The symbol of this special attitude to Russia and its future was the theme of a meeting between Western businessmen and Vladimir Putin. As the General Director of Russian direct investment fund Kirill Dmitriev said, “There was a very successful meeting of the President with investors who manage capital of $15 trillion. They really confirmed their interest in national projects based on the fact that they have already made a lot of profitable, good investments with us and they see the potential for the implementation of national projects.”
The desire of foreign business to rely on Russia is the best proof that globalization on the basis of respect for sovereignty has a great, though not a problem-free future.
The Russian economic strategy relies on foreign direct investment in parity with the government’s investments. Russia is poised for takeoff as a developing economy.
This year will be a pivotal year to measure the flow of capital into Russian projects.
Which is why we should expect increased efforts from the US to apply sanctions, run interference and generally try to hold back Russia in every way possible.
When one looks for proof of satans existence, this is the type of behavior one expects to see from the wicked monsterous beast.
The U.S. financial system has been taken over by and is run and managed by the Jewish mafia. They own Trump, among many others. This is an objective fact that can be documented at many levels. The Russians and Chinese know this.
”And there is Vladimir Putin’s view, which showed on the basis of statistics from international financial institutions that the claims not only of the US, but of the ’collective West’ to global domination are already groundless: ’In the past three decades, the share of advanced countries in the global GDP in purchasing power parity decreased from 58 to 40 percent. In the G7 it dropped from 46 to 30 percent, whereas the weight of the countries with developing markets is growing.’”
And still, these stats don’t tell the full story: The West’s fraudulent ’post-industrial society’ now in irreversible rot and decay all along the line. To make an allegorical story, it’s like looking at 18th century France and its so-called ”GDP” made up of colonial booty and the ensuing orgies at Versailles. The West’s claims to its prosperity and authority have a similar putrid stench pertaining to them.
China makes up 18% of global GNP, the USA 15% and much of that is military expenditure and the FIRE financialised parasitism. Yet the Western fakestream presstitutes still continue squawking the racist lie, like a mantra, that China is ‘the second largest economy’ on Earth. The mere thought of what one Thanatopolis DC insider described, tellingly, as a ‘non-Caucasian rival’ to the USA, leading the world, has the White supremacists in quite a funk. Prepare for a race war, I’d say.
Like a car running on empty, the West’s, and especially the American, economies are running on such fumes as can be generated by financial conguring tricks. In 2009, I was sure they had but a year or two. As it turned out, they had a decade. My error, but their strategic blunder. Wealth isn’t created by giving each other haircuts or flipping each others’ burgers.
One hopes they’ll manage well enough to pull over to the side and get out of the way when the fumes finally run out and they sputter to a stop. I fear that, in the event, they’ll plant themselves in the middle of the road and impede traffic as well as they can, if they don’t try to stop it altogether.
Or they might just as easily become road kill.
Fumes, is right. But even on fumes, the Western cabal and the Zionists have another two to three years, I reckon, to try every Satanic trick in the book. My question is this: What do they do when all those tricks fail? I really doubt that Yosemite Sam and the Malignant Manatee (to cite the most public of the cabal’s factotums) are going to give up the world stage peacefully.
Is Ivan Danilo a “real person” or a nom de plum? Or, like Tyler Durden of zerohedge fame, the nom de plum of multiple people?
Ria.ru has a photo of the writer, Ivan Danilov, if you scroll down to the lower left of their home page.
A prolific writer for them and Sputnik.
I hope they’re diligent with researching these so-called businessmen. If speaking about the West’s oligarchy, it’s not clear its members care about profit at all. Many Russian commentators can’t accept liberalism is not simply capitalism.
Moreover, capitalism is too damaging a system at this point. There are two wars on nature, visible through a microscope and a telescope. Much of nature is today being destroyed by weirdos and their science experiments in our water, food and air. Yet, the filthy old capitalist that still sees land as a “timber colony” is more destructive than ever. Technology has not benefited reality. Since the factory produced the brick, we haven’t needed to destroy forests. Yet things are worse than ever. More paper is used than ever before. Recycling is just be a logo on the dumpster. Garbage is as real as ever. In reality, garbage is shipped to the Philippines to be buried.
The capitalist mindset was alright 100 years ago. No more. Russia’s problem is our problem and it is twofold. The only alternative we’re given to liberal chaos is dullard liberalism, i.e., capitalism. Second, many don’t seem to grasp what liberalism is, and assume the super wealthy are out to maximize profits. Most in the truth movement, in the West, realize George Soros, for example, has plans exceeding wealth accumulation. A communist critique doesn’t explain his behavior at all. The solution is not capitalism, and the truth of it is not capitalism.
Sad that this work to find like minded people has damaged the Orthodox faithful. Some Orthodox think it wise to work with Christians in the West. Problem is, aside from the few Orthodox, there are no faithful in the West. Even trying to speak to a Roman Catholic is a waste of time. They invent terms like “Palamist” in reference to Gregory Palamas. They don’t get it. The “West” just doesn’t see itself. Nothing but a different trajectory is needed. I’m happy to say that a few understand this but disheartened when presented with Maria Zakharova as the voice of truth. On her “facebook and twitter”, of course. Mededev on his hacked “twitter” and silicon valley cell phone, of course. Always. This is no good.
This comment by Paul indicates that at the core of the world crisis is a spiritual battle. My own view is that this is a battle between those heavenly forces whose manifest expression is the genuine teachings of Jesus Christ vs. the demonic powers controlled by the entity that Jesus called “the Prince of this World.” This “Prince” had the power to take Jesus to a “High Place” and offer him dominion over all the nations of the earth. Doesn’t the “Prince” do the same today by offering people earthly wealth and power in exchange for their souls? Isn’t this the essence of Goethe’s Faust drama? And haven’t many of the leaders of the Christian West, particularly the Christian Zionists in both the Catholic and Protestant churches, fallen for the same tricks? The best modern source for the authentic teachings of Jesus is the writings of German spiritual master Bô Yin Râ (Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken 1876-1943). See particularly Bô Yin Râ’s seminal book, The Book on the Living God. Among many valuable teachings of Bô Yin Râ is how a person’s Living God is born within the individual human soul. This was indeed the core of Jesus’s path which, contrary to the churches, does not require any type of formal worship or political bias. It allows the individual to act according to conscience and thereby become a peacemaker in life. Bô Yin Râ’s writings are now becoming available in English translations by the Kober Press.
Thanks for this translation! It’ll take time but eventually the exodus from the Zero-sum philosophy will become acutely overt as first businesses then nations abandon it for the profitability of Win-Win. With luck, the transition will occur without any nuclear bangs.