The Germans declared themselves as political opponents of Russia
On the eve of the New Year, mass media flooded the publications on the results of the outgoing year and the prospects for the coming year. The information and analytical portal of the German newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” made a review of reports in Western publications devoted to the successes of Russia in 2016. Much has been attributed to Russian successes: Brexit, who became an indicator of the collapse of the West, Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential elections, the growing contradictions between the EU member countries. Against the background of all these analytical “surveys”, perhaps only the assessment of Russia's victory in Syria deserves attention. In the Western media, it was called the crown of success of the Russian leader, which is true.
In the Western media, Vladimir Putin was named the winner of the year.
Of all the successes outlined in the review, analysts of the publication make a well-founded conclusion that "the Kremlin had a feeling of victory and the return of a strong and powerful Russia" and added: which side you look at, "but the winner is Putin." True, the Germans moored their conclusion with a fair spoonful of tar: “This feeling of greatness and national pride among Russians helps Putin to level out dissatisfaction with internal politics. After all, for them they are ready to forgive the president for many difficulties. ”
Maybe it was not worth paying attention to a completely standard set of rhetoric of the Western media, collected on the portal "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". But the analyst of the publication was united by the general headline “No one risks to fight with Russia”. And this is a different topic than just the notions about Russian hacker attacks, the formation of public opinion by the Kremlin in the West, and other horror stories that are already annoying to everyone.
This new emphasis on a possible war with Russia is not accidental. Recently, the feeling that Germany, having strengthened its economy and political influence in Europe, wants to win back, does not leave. At a minimum, correct the outcome of the war lost by the Germans. This is supported by the fact that after Gerhard Schroeder left the post of Chancellor, Germany ceased to consider itself an ally of Russia.
Over the past eleven years after Schroeder, the German political elite and the press have so elevated the degree of Russophobia in Germany that they far outdid the old Russian antagonists, the British, in this regard. Strengthened and the confrontation between our countries. In a world where the influence and authority of Moscow is undoubtedly higher than that of Berlin, this is not so noticeable. But in Europe, Germany is trying to spoil Russia in large and small.
There are many examples of this - starting with the banking crisis in Cyprus, ending with the crisis in Ukraine and the notorious sanctions. Such a policy of Berlin, however, gives a very relative result and cannot hold back the rise and development of Russia. No wonder that the Western media identified Vladimir Putin as the political winner of the year.
Not having achieved the desired result, the Germans started talking about the war. At least on the portal "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". His analysts are forced to admit that "in the West, no one risks fighting with Russia - the West is afraid of nuclear weapons, whose use is often threatened by Putin’s propagandists. ” Chancellor Merkel's propagandists offer their recipe for confrontation.
The Germans came to the conclusion, "at present, there is a process of gradual transition of the role of the main opponent of the Russian Federation from the USA to Germany." The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung counts its developed economy, access to capital markets, technology and investment. That is, instead of a hot war, they offer an economic one.
With doubtful trumps
The economic war, meanwhile, is already underway. It was expressed in the sanctions, in the manipulation of energy prices. Reducing the cost of oil and gas, for example, well supported the economy of European countries and created big problems for Russia. However, it didn’t tear our economy "to shreds", as western dreamers wanted.
Let's look attentively at the German trumps. In them, in fact, an overstated self-esteem and disregard for the sustainability of the Russian economy is apparent. She really got hooked for a couple of recent years. So, if in the 2013 year, according to the International Monetary Fund, Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (economists consider it the most objective comparison indicator) was 3734 billion US dollars, by the end of last year - 3735 billions. There is - at least stagnation. Germany for this indicator in the 2013 year was inferior to Russia. German GDP was 3639 billion US dollars. In 2015, he rose to 3860 billions. The difference, as we see, is not so critical as to try on the laurels of the winner.
Access to capital markets from Russia is indeed limited by sanctions, and this creates real problems. At the same time, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation has significant international reserves. On 1 December, there were more than 385 billion US dollars. In December, Russian companies and banks had to return about 14 billion dollars to western creditors. The Central Bank easily lent to those in need the currency for these operations.
Russia is growing and real gold reserves. For eleven months, the Central Bank purchased nearly 200 tons of gold, bringing its total volume to 1614 tons. This is the sixth stock among the countries of the world. For comparison, the gold in Japan’s big economic seven is only 765 tons, while the British have even less - 310 tons. Canadians squandered their gold reserves completely.
Germany on the post-war boom, not bad stocked up with gold. Only under the terms of that time, it was stored mainly in the United States, where it remains to this day. Attempts by Germany to transport gold into their vaults have not yet yielded a positive result. In the 2015 year, for example, Berlin was able to return from other countries (the German stock is also stored in Paris and London) only 215 tons of gold. Now in the repositories in Germany is about 1400 tons of gold.
Next in the list of trumps are technology. Here the aberration absorbs consciousness immediately, if, of course, you look at the world from the window of a Mercedes somewhere near the headquarters of the Siemens concern. But you can watch from the height of the International Space Station, where you can get now only on Russian ships. And also from the headquarters of the Rosatom Concern, whose technologies are recognized as the most advanced in the world and received the general name “post-Fukushima”.
You can also recall those unique technologies in metal science and mechanical engineering, which the United States excluded from the sanctions list in order to use Russian developments without any restrictions. The international division of labor did not arise yesterday; it is also reflected in technological competencies. To lag in them can not be treated condescendingly, but you should not exaggerate.
For example, the trump cards that analysts from the Frankfurt edition found in their deck have already been laid out by Western politicians on the geopolitical table and embodied in sanctions. The result of their actions was recently assessed by the well-known rating agency S&P. At one time, it showed an enviable effort to support the initiators of the sanctions war against Russia.
S&P, despite Russia's solid foreign exchange reserves and a small external debt, lowered the credit rating of the Russian Federation to “negative”. Now the agency's experts are forced to admit that the Russian economy has adapted to the sanctions. The S&P has now changed its negative outlook. The Russian rating has been raised to “stable”. The agency's specialists expect that by the end of 2019 the Russian economy will grow by an average of 1,6 percent per year.
Life is no problem. There are them in Russia, there are in Germany. Surprisingly, by not yet coping with the existing crises in the country (for example, migrant ones), the Germans want to create new problems for themselves, such as political and economic confrontation with Russia. Someone would remind them that Germany has already opposed Russia and has never benefited from this. Why did the analysts of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung decide that this time it would be different?
In the Western media, Vladimir Putin was named the winner of the year.
Of all the successes outlined in the review, analysts of the publication make a well-founded conclusion that "the Kremlin had a feeling of victory and the return of a strong and powerful Russia" and added: which side you look at, "but the winner is Putin." True, the Germans moored their conclusion with a fair spoonful of tar: “This feeling of greatness and national pride among Russians helps Putin to level out dissatisfaction with internal politics. After all, for them they are ready to forgive the president for many difficulties. ”
Maybe it was not worth paying attention to a completely standard set of rhetoric of the Western media, collected on the portal "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". But the analyst of the publication was united by the general headline “No one risks to fight with Russia”. And this is a different topic than just the notions about Russian hacker attacks, the formation of public opinion by the Kremlin in the West, and other horror stories that are already annoying to everyone.
This new emphasis on a possible war with Russia is not accidental. Recently, the feeling that Germany, having strengthened its economy and political influence in Europe, wants to win back, does not leave. At a minimum, correct the outcome of the war lost by the Germans. This is supported by the fact that after Gerhard Schroeder left the post of Chancellor, Germany ceased to consider itself an ally of Russia.
Over the past eleven years after Schroeder, the German political elite and the press have so elevated the degree of Russophobia in Germany that they far outdid the old Russian antagonists, the British, in this regard. Strengthened and the confrontation between our countries. In a world where the influence and authority of Moscow is undoubtedly higher than that of Berlin, this is not so noticeable. But in Europe, Germany is trying to spoil Russia in large and small.
There are many examples of this - starting with the banking crisis in Cyprus, ending with the crisis in Ukraine and the notorious sanctions. Such a policy of Berlin, however, gives a very relative result and cannot hold back the rise and development of Russia. No wonder that the Western media identified Vladimir Putin as the political winner of the year.
Not having achieved the desired result, the Germans started talking about the war. At least on the portal "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". His analysts are forced to admit that "in the West, no one risks fighting with Russia - the West is afraid of nuclear weapons, whose use is often threatened by Putin’s propagandists. ” Chancellor Merkel's propagandists offer their recipe for confrontation.
The Germans came to the conclusion, "at present, there is a process of gradual transition of the role of the main opponent of the Russian Federation from the USA to Germany." The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung counts its developed economy, access to capital markets, technology and investment. That is, instead of a hot war, they offer an economic one.
With doubtful trumps
The economic war, meanwhile, is already underway. It was expressed in the sanctions, in the manipulation of energy prices. Reducing the cost of oil and gas, for example, well supported the economy of European countries and created big problems for Russia. However, it didn’t tear our economy "to shreds", as western dreamers wanted.
Let's look attentively at the German trumps. In them, in fact, an overstated self-esteem and disregard for the sustainability of the Russian economy is apparent. She really got hooked for a couple of recent years. So, if in the 2013 year, according to the International Monetary Fund, Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (economists consider it the most objective comparison indicator) was 3734 billion US dollars, by the end of last year - 3735 billions. There is - at least stagnation. Germany for this indicator in the 2013 year was inferior to Russia. German GDP was 3639 billion US dollars. In 2015, he rose to 3860 billions. The difference, as we see, is not so critical as to try on the laurels of the winner.
Access to capital markets from Russia is indeed limited by sanctions, and this creates real problems. At the same time, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation has significant international reserves. On 1 December, there were more than 385 billion US dollars. In December, Russian companies and banks had to return about 14 billion dollars to western creditors. The Central Bank easily lent to those in need the currency for these operations.
Russia is growing and real gold reserves. For eleven months, the Central Bank purchased nearly 200 tons of gold, bringing its total volume to 1614 tons. This is the sixth stock among the countries of the world. For comparison, the gold in Japan’s big economic seven is only 765 tons, while the British have even less - 310 tons. Canadians squandered their gold reserves completely.
Germany on the post-war boom, not bad stocked up with gold. Only under the terms of that time, it was stored mainly in the United States, where it remains to this day. Attempts by Germany to transport gold into their vaults have not yet yielded a positive result. In the 2015 year, for example, Berlin was able to return from other countries (the German stock is also stored in Paris and London) only 215 tons of gold. Now in the repositories in Germany is about 1400 tons of gold.
Next in the list of trumps are technology. Here the aberration absorbs consciousness immediately, if, of course, you look at the world from the window of a Mercedes somewhere near the headquarters of the Siemens concern. But you can watch from the height of the International Space Station, where you can get now only on Russian ships. And also from the headquarters of the Rosatom Concern, whose technologies are recognized as the most advanced in the world and received the general name “post-Fukushima”.
You can also recall those unique technologies in metal science and mechanical engineering, which the United States excluded from the sanctions list in order to use Russian developments without any restrictions. The international division of labor did not arise yesterday; it is also reflected in technological competencies. To lag in them can not be treated condescendingly, but you should not exaggerate.
For example, the trump cards that analysts from the Frankfurt edition found in their deck have already been laid out by Western politicians on the geopolitical table and embodied in sanctions. The result of their actions was recently assessed by the well-known rating agency S&P. At one time, it showed an enviable effort to support the initiators of the sanctions war against Russia.
S&P, despite Russia's solid foreign exchange reserves and a small external debt, lowered the credit rating of the Russian Federation to “negative”. Now the agency's experts are forced to admit that the Russian economy has adapted to the sanctions. The S&P has now changed its negative outlook. The Russian rating has been raised to “stable”. The agency's specialists expect that by the end of 2019 the Russian economy will grow by an average of 1,6 percent per year.
Life is no problem. There are them in Russia, there are in Germany. Surprisingly, by not yet coping with the existing crises in the country (for example, migrant ones), the Germans want to create new problems for themselves, such as political and economic confrontation with Russia. Someone would remind them that Germany has already opposed Russia and has never benefited from this. Why did the analysts of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung decide that this time it would be different?
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