Drago Bosnic – BRICS Information Portal Aug 8, 2023
Ever since the start of Russia’s counteroffensive against NATO aggression in Europe, the question of the economic fallout of this dangerous confrontation was always presented as a one-way street – the Russian economy is doomed. However, time and again, the Eurasian giant is demonstrating not only resilience, but also pushback that’s historically unprecedented. Namely, it was expected that Russia would outperform Germany and the United Kingdom which are among the most powerful Western economies. This is partially due to Berlin’s suicidal subservience to Washington DC, as this disastrous strategic miscalculation has led to Germany’s deindustrialization, a process that has only accelerated its dethroning by Russia.
There have been numerous wide-ranging and long-term consequences since the start of Moscow’s special military operation (SMO). This includes a surge in weapons sales from the United States and South Korea, both of which have benefitted greatly from this, a consequence that was certainly predicted by the belligerent thalassocracy. The US knew that the fledgling European economies would have been unable to produce enough weapons and munitions for a head-on collision with Russia. That’s precisely why it was essential for Washington DC to back Moscow into a corner. And yet, just like for the umpteenth time in history, this has backfired in ways the Eurasian giant’s enemies never anticipate, causing shock and disbelief among their political elites.
Worse yet for the belligerent thalassocracy and the chorus of its numerous vassals and satellite states, the actual world is also benefiting from this shift. Central Asian and Arab Gulf oil producers have profited enormously from the surge in oil prices, while Indian refineries have experienced an unprecedented (and completely unexpected) windfall by reselling Russian oil to the European Union. Washington DC’s geopolitical pendant is suffering greatly due to this, as it’s paying exorbitant prices for commodities that used to be cheap, particularly oil and natural gas. This has resulted in a ripple effect that’s still ravaging entire sectors of the EU’s economy, as the aforementioned commodities simply cannot be replaced.
In addition, the loss of access to the massive Russian market was a major hit for the troubled bloc. In addition, many Russian companies kept their funds in European banks, but the attempted theft of this money has resulted in a complete destruction of trust that once existed, promoting not only Russians, but many others to lose interest in the EU’s once virtually unrivaled finance sector. In the meantime, China, India, the Arab Gulf states, Turkey and other countries have filled the gap in the Russian market. In years since the unfortunate dismantling of the Soviet Union, Moscow was seen as the sort of a new “sick man of Europe”, serving largely as the source of cheap but essential natural resources, while providing its top talent and hundreds of billions of dollars in investment.
Concurrently, Russia was also seen as the leading market for the much-needed expansion of the EU’s exports. Now, all this is largely a thing of the past. EU economies are simply unable to replace Russia as both the source of cheap commodities (particularly oil and natural gas) and a massive, growing market that is actually one of the world’s largest in many respects. Germany is by far the biggest loser in this case, as its industrial might has experienced an unprecedented unraveling, almost a sort of reverse of what was once called the “German economic miracle” in the aftermath of the Second World War. Berlin wrongfully assessed Moscow’s resilience as it anticipated that launching the unparalleled sanctions war against Russia will actually work.
Still, the fact that only Japan, South Korea and Singapore imposed any sanctions among non-Western countries (although they can rightfully be seen as Western satellite states) and that no sanctions could be passed through the UN, meant that the attempt to isolate Russia failed miserably. In addition, this was one of the key contributing factors to Moscow’s economic rise, particularly as its trade with the actual world surged to epic proportions. The Eurasian giant’s import substitution program, well organized and executed swiftly, created massive market expansion opportunities for Chinese, Indian, Iranian and numerous other companies from around the globe. It has also pushed the rise of countless Russian companies that are replacing import products with domestic equivalents.
This process has paved the way for the emergence of entire industrial sectors which effectively didn’t exist before the sanctions were imposed. Coupled with the cutting of massive flow of funds out of Russia and the rise in energy exports, this provided a massive boost to Moscow’s economy. The results of these historically unprecedented economic shits were revealed by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in early August, when they published new data on the world economy for 2022. The newly released information revealed that Russia is now the largest economy in Europe and also the world’s fifth for the very first time since Soviet times. In doing so, it overtook Germany, and is now behind China, the US, India and Japan, standing at a staggering $5.51 trillion.
Even more astonishingly, the figure is 38% larger than the official projected estimate of $3.993 trillion. The report showed Russia’s GDP PPP (purchasing power parity), which is the metric used by the CIA, the World Bank and many other organizations to most accurately measure the economic might of any given country, as the much-touted nominal GDP is mostly irrelevant in practical terms and largely serves for propaganda purposes. Russia is also expected to boost its position in many key industries, including advanced communications and high-tech, particularly as it further connects to China and provides additional support to domestic companies in the sector. In part due to Germany’s aforementioned deindustrialization, Moscow is expected to keep its fifth place for the foreseeable future.
Would we wish to be “the largest economy”? Who really wants that? Only those who want to keep stealing a percentage, as government
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I’ll start some distance from this article.
Remember when Trump answered some thick presstitute that ‘the world is going to get colder, much colder’. Trump is right.
Sure, we are having alarming swings in the weather, and this is due to our weakening magnetosphere, the thing that protects the Earth and keeps the weather stable.
Last winter was mild, but this can’t continue, and European sheeple, especially those in Northern Europe, haven’t fully experienced the full wrath of high energy prices.
These countries are already politically unstable, even if we ignore the foreign orchestrated French riots. So this can only get worse.
For a very long time, I’ve been pointing out that Russia out spends militarily, Germany, France, and bankrupt Britain combined. The Russian economy has been much bigger that official data suggests.
This military spending, before the SMO, wasn’t particularly high. Russia, was always able to ramp up spending, and has done so since the SMO was launched. We should also understand that Russian military procurement is much more efficient that anything seen in NATO, and especially do against Nazi US & UK.
The author says: “That’s precisely why it was essential for Washington DC to back Moscow into a corner.”
Russia hasn’t been backed into a corner. The bear has been prodded, and is coming out to play!
As the article points out, Europe, and indirectly, Amerika, are still getting very expensive oil and gas through third parties. This makes massive military rearming very expensive. Take the near $1 billion Patriot system. 90/100 man operation, either destroyed, or now ineffective, as the Russians can shoot down Patriot missiles. NATO weapons are complicated, time hungry, and cost a fortune to make, expecially when each missile can cost $150k and up, up & up. To shoot down a $12k drone.
All the NATO MIC systems are geared to manufacture expensive systems. There’s no profit making $12k drones, and this is a huge Nazi problem.
Having said that, I don’t believe these stories that Nazi Amerika is low on anything. Whilst the Patriot systems do cost a lot, the US never sent their best, and for a very good reason, they don’t want the Russians to learn how they work. Just as Russia doesn’t turn on their S400s in Syria.
When Russia buzzes a US carrier or ship in the Black Sea, this isn’t just a show of strength. This is systems testing, data collection, and then there’s the pure joy that one, the yanks didn’t see the Russian plane above the carrier, or in the Black Sea, a complete failure to ‘lock-on’. As far electronic warfare is concerned, Russia is on another level.
Where are the Challanger tanks? lol
All said and done, even though Russia is on a massive military expansion, they can afford it, and they have insignificant debts. Remember, Russia hasn’t even started serious sanctions. If they did, Nazi NATO would be in serious dodo.
Anyone else notice that TTS…is selectively not publishing certain comments…
This never used to happen,now it is a regular event.
So what is actually going on here?????????!.
Dr Vernon Coleman
a warning
https://vernoncoleman.org/videos/anaesthetics-why-you-are-great-danger
So we are left with the question , un-intended consequences or a deliberate plan to bring down the EU / UK economies ? As for the Russian economy doing much better than expected good on them they took the globalists best punch on the chin and instead of hitting the canvas they have fought back well .
Looks like UK ‘Yapping Poodle will have to used to living off scraps for the next few decades..
To Bill Smith.
I noticed this long since as Rix don’t like comment then just screw you.
His site, his rules as he may watch in real time as poster post.
Unfair I think as thought is a free thing and posting thought if not vulgar should be allowed.
You will most likely not see this thought of course now Bill as owner of spaces control those he not like.
Say la vie.
BRICS Information Portal Aug 10, 2023
S Africa Keen on Collaborating with BRICS Partners in Vaccine Manufacturing
Globalist vaccine-green scammers from NATO are on the verge of total failure after not only failing to stop the human BRICS alternative, but apparently sparking its growth in vaccines and green technologies. It’s getting better…
BRICS Information Portal Aug 10, 2023
BRICS Summit 2023: The Quest for a New World Order
By Billy Kavanagh
In two words: “Russian Ivasia in Ukraine”, as the author calls it, stimulates the radical transformation of the world economy, in which the rise of the CBDC through BRICS plays a leading role.
Skolkovo also notes the remarkable rise and turning point in history.
Skolkovo named the leaders among the BRICS countries in the introduction of digital currencies /28 July 2023/
On Sept. 28, 2010, then-President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law “On the Skolkovo Innovation Center,” giving rise to the project’s managing entity, the not-for-profit Skolkovo Foundation.
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Collaboration: Skoltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In October 2011, MIT launched a multi-year collaboration to assist Russian partners in building a new university, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech).[…]The relationship ended in 2022.
As a result of this 10-year collaboration a pioneering new academic center was created in Russia, and more than 75 academic research projects involving faculty and students from MIT and Skoltech contributed to the development of new knowledge in a wide range of scientific and engineering fields.
Also in the link:
“Skolkovo resident attracted 155 million rubles from business angels for the development of vaccines”/13 July 2023/
“developing a number of promising projects in the field of high-tech medicine at the Innovation Center: gene therapy, cell technologies and vaccines.”
and
“Edtech hub “Skolkovo” held a Demo Day of the ED2 accelerator in the Metaverse” /24 July 2023/
I told you: it’s getting better. American hegemony with sinister vaccines, genetic technologies, CBDCs, green technologies, etc. will be defeated by the good vaccines, genetic technologies, CBDCs, green technologies, etc. of the radically opposite BRICS. There are bright times ahead and the positive excitement is growing.
BILL SMITH
Yes there is something going on as you say
some one using the name carl jones
he or she keeps saying the UK is a natzi state
i dont know if hes a socialist indoctrinated teenager or what
but this crap should not be put up here every day
like many folk i no longer read carl jones
but Rixon should tell him who we fought in the 1939-45 war
Rixon please stop the trolls
Bill Smith: as others say, it is Rixons site, but I do wonder if he has editorial cover?
Bilderberg.org had moderators from all over the show, such as Europe. Many posts were blocked, or changed, and the editor wasn’t interested by the fact that his mods weren’t working for the site, but outside interests. Rixon has also seen fit to limit debate. Some get replies, but in general, he’s stopped the debate, & begs the question, why?
Is this Rixon, or outside pressure?
Blessed are the russian people ! they suffered
enough in the last 120 years .
Rixon has not stopped any debate and only deletes comments if the are abusive.