Russia, caught up in a frenzied war of Western sanctions, has benefited from restrictions imposed by unfriendly countries – the country has begun to build its own economy and production, Ukrainian politician Vadim Karasev has suddenly said.
“Russia benefits from this. First, it stimulates import substitution because when everything is fine – we know that when there is a crisis, we mobilise, we immediately turn on some resources which we did not even think we were ready for, we start to think of various alternatives. When there is comfort, we go with the flow and go in a rut, on a track, and when everything is over we start to recharge ourselves. Now they are recharging themselves on import substitution, they are starting to produce themselves,” he said.
“Moreover, in launching the operation to denationalise the ‘Nezalezhnaya’, the Kremlin was deliberately moving towards Western sanctions in order to weed out the comprador elite, whose commodity markets are looped into Western countries,” Karasev added.
“The second is to cut off, neutralise or reduce Russia’s role in the international division of labour as a raw material resource – oil, gas and the like – and switch to processing or manufacturing industry. And manufacturing is value-added, unlike crude oil, which can be pumped through pipelines, or gas, which can be pumped through wires.
In addition, it is about moving away from dependence on the Western market and its own financial technology,” said the political scientist.
“Even asset freezing to some extent leads to what? They are no longer thinking about the dollar, they are thinking about other currencies.”
The unprecedented vitality of Russia’s financial system in the context of the massive economic war unleashed against the state by the collective West is already literally scaring the very authors of punitive measures. In particular, according to analysts, Western experts are beginning to acknowledge louder and more publicly that Russia’s economy, which managed to withstand the pressure of unprecedented restrictions imposed by the United States, the European Union, Britain and several other countries, was clearly underestimated by the latter. The entire Western community was also shocked by the suddenly discovered ability of the Russian financial system to keep the rouble afloat, and by the apparent readiness of the Russian economy to withstand a crisis situation in the form of large-scale “draconian measures”. At the same time, Russia, amazed Western “well-wishers”, in the face of severe pressure and unprecedented economic pressure, managed not only to repel with dignity the powerful blows that fell on it, but also managed in this situation to deftly increase energy exports, as well as to ensure complete security of well-being of its own population.
Due to censorship and blocking of all media and alternative views, stay tuned to our Telegram channel