Project "ZZ". The USA is decomposed, and Russia becomes a superpower
The American press snapped up quotes from V.V. Putin at the annual forum of representatives of regional media in Kaliningrad. Putin's words are quoted even by the flagship of Western freedom of speech and democracy - newspaper Washington Post.
At the above-mentioned Kaliningrad Forum, reminds of The Washington Post, Vladimir Putin made a curious statement: say, open the possibility for him to change history, he would have prevented the collapse of the Soviet Union. Reporting this fantastic "thesis" of Putin, the American edition went further, writing about the mass regret of the Russians about the collapse of the USSR. Similar regret among Russians reigns "everywhere". “Levada Center” from 1992 has conducted surveys about the attitude of the Russian people towards the breakup of the Union. According to the latest data, 58% of citizens now regret the collapse of the USSR. Just over 25% - no regrets. “Pro-Soviet” sentiments reached their peak in the country in 2000 — it so coincided that Vladimir Putin came to power that year. 75% of the inhabitants of Russia then “regretted” about the collapse of the USSR!
Abroad there are those who do not share the longing for Soviet times, and even this longing is very surprised. Such is, for example, Michael McFaul, who knows Soviet life firsthand.
The ex-ambassador commented on the statement of the Russian president that he, if he could, would have prevented the collapse of the USSR. McFaul recalled how long he (McFaul) stood in line for bananas in the Soviet Union. The former ambassador shared his memories through Twitter:
Mr. McFaul developed his thought about the Soviet deficit, reporting through Twitter about other queues. He recalled that he lived in the USSR in 1983, 1985, 1989 and in 1990-1991. And he stood in line for a long time "for rough toilet paper and skinny chickens."
Understandably, people nostalgic in the USSR did not support McFaul. Those interested can read the tweets of the former ambassador: many of the answers are written in Russian.
Meanwhile, as foreign press notes, Russia is rapidly moving forward, and no one has the right to ignore it. The time has passed when the enemies of the Russians could sneer at the weakening country. Approximately such a conclusion is made by D. Maryanovich, the author of the publication in the Croatian edition of Advance.
Based on the annual message of Vladimir Putin, the author points out that the President of Russia “presented”, first of all, new military developments, primarily missile ones. In recent years, Russia has “shaken by sanctions,” and yet Moscow reacted to the hostility of the West with “gracious diplomacy”. Russia acted according to the principle “we are sorry that our western partners are dissatisfied with us, however we are still open for cooperation,” quotes Maryanovich "InoSMI".
Putin’s speech showed that all this had its own logic. Perhaps the calm reaction was a skillful bluff and an attempt to gain time. Now Russian engineers "created something that would provide Russia with immunity from any military threat." And “if everything that Putin said today really exists, then Russia has become the most powerful military power in the world,” the author concludes.
Has Russia really managed to overtake the military rival so much? Then it will lead to significant changes in the world. After the Cold War, the United States assigned the role of aggressive hegemon. The victims of American aggression were and are becoming countries unable to prevent a strike. Therefore, the solution for the situation is to create conditions for the counterblow. Perhaps this is the only solution to maintain relative equilibrium in the modern world.
According to Putin, the latest Russian developments have made the American anti-missile shield obsolete. Putin also said that the US thoughtlessly thought that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia could not recover quickly, and therefore its interests could be ignored.
And the most curious thing is this: at the end of the speech, the President of the Russian Federation stated that Russia would not have to develop new weapons if the States and their allies did not ignore the justified concern of Russia. “Nobody essentially wanted to talk to us, no one listened to us. Listen now, ”Putin said.
A blessing in disguise, says a Russian proverb. The West, we recall, has long been accustomed to reckoning only with force. That was the case in the times of the USSR, which was a very strong adversary, both militarily and politically, who could attack. Apparently, Putin, speaking of the new power of Russia, sought to show the opponents from the United States the following: Russia cannot be ignored just as the USSR could not be ignored. And not without reason many foreign newspapers write about it.
But in the meantime, the United States is "honorable" rot. No, these are not tales of Putin’s propaganda and not works of Petersburg trolls. On the "death" of industries reported himself Donald Trump. And the conservatives, who told the world about the moral decay of the United States, added fuel to the fire.
Like McFaul, Trump expressed his attitude to the issue through Twitter:
The latter slogan, by the way, very much resembles the slogans of the communist Soviet era — the very one that Mr. McFaul does not like so much, scouring Moscow in search of toilet paper. What changes is the surgeon Trump talking about if the patient on his desk is dead?
Earlier, 1 March, Mr. Trump announced barrage customs duties (not yet introduced) for the supply of steel and aluminum from abroad. 25 percent duty will affect imported steel, 10 percent percent - aluminum. Restrictive measures will hit China and Russia.
Today, the US steel production is only in fifth place in the world. Ahead of China, the European Union, Japan, India. Russia is in sixth place.
It is difficult to say whether duties can return the USA to 1 in the list. While experts have established something else: the United States has decayed morally.
Gilbert Sewell's Edition "The American Conservatie" He tells us that Pitirim Sorokin was prophesied to the West. The scientist predicted the West sexual and cultural "decomposition".
The social order of the West, "inviolable" before, now decomposes. The president in the USA is a buffoon, self-confident almost like a crazy Roman emperor. Lady Gaga is another caricature of the present time. A few decades ago, no one could have imagined such a thing. Except some writers or scholars.
Among the latter was just mentioned Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968). This man was able to foresee the decay of the West. Sociologist Sorokin described the conditions under which a successful society will fall apart, faced with the "decomposition of its moral, legal and other values that govern the behavior of individuals and groups."
Sorokin was able to predict that art will turn into a "show", and objects of worship (works by Michelangelo or Rembrandt) will suddenly become a commodity and decorate soap and razors.
Sorokin was arrested by the tsarist authorities, and then the Bolsheviks were expelled from the country. He was rather rude in his sociology. Later, when there was a cold war, he remained an opponent of the Soviet Union. In 1965, he was elected president of the American Sociological Association. A little later, the futurologist Herman Kahn and the Hudson Institute commission took as a basis the P. Sorokin model of the sensory society for the study entitled "The Year 2000."
According to the said Kahn, the United States was confronted with a weak society when civil rights movements and counter-cultural communities turned over American values.
In sensory societies, according to Sorokin, reality is mundane. Laws and customs flowing. The most important here are power, wealth, fame, entertainment, comfort. Sensual societies value the mundane. Their achievements: skyscrapers, aviation, nuclear power, microtechnology. But government, education, and industry depend on extremely complex systems. Accumulated wealth is fragile.
Back in 1957, Sorokin showed that "Americans became victims of sexual insanity, like cancer and just as dangerous for society as communism is dangerous." Sorokin believed that sensory societies are coming to decay. Aggressive individualism and love of freedom will undermine both self-control and enterprise. The desire for all the new pleasures will generate insatiability. Boredom will fuel unrest and extremism. Occupations that were previously considered shameful or criminal will be allowed. In such epochs, societies are experiencing an increase in licentiousness, crime, and war. Chaos is growing, and governments use it to increase control over society. Officials are violent and prone to lies. Democratic society is falling apart.
Shock, provocation, pornography for every taste, sex without commitment, the desire for pleasure at any cost and everything else - here it is, an incurable public illness!
And Mr. Trump is telling Americans about aluminum and duties! ..
As we see, foreign conservatives just yearn for the old times, as Russian citizens dream of the good old Soviet Union - by the way, with its relatively strong morality, stable values, working industry and national idea. While one by one, P. Sorokin’s American predictions come true, Russian citizens who yearn for the USSR express the general idea of not wanting to live with destructive sensual “values”, which sociologist Sorokin rather rudely criticized.
At the same time, the people's longing for the Union, for a superpower, a country that in many respects knows how to live self-sufficiently surrounded by political enemies, caused in many respects an economic and social crisis that engulfed all the republics after the famous Belovezhsky conspiracy. Longing for the masses of the Brezhnev "stagnation" began with the 1990-s and has not ended so far, according to polls.
And the reasons for the longing are not only Sorokin, not only cultural. The melancholy of the masses in Russia is hardly caused by the “pleasure”. To such pleasures, which Sorokin angrily mocked, the soul of the overwhelming majority of the Russian people does not lie. And not before the Russian people!
No matter how hard the Kremlin power provided with all blessings about halva (about “stability” and right there about “stability”), does not become sweeter in the mouth of citizens. Perhaps, the Kremlin has some kind of special stability that is felt by those who have been in power for a long time and are planning to be in power further. Citizens do not have such stability - many do not even have confidence in the future.
The number of beggars in the country has been growing in recent years - stability has indeed been achieved in this matter.
Medicine is optimized at the pace of the “five-year plan for three years” - here, too, complete stability.
The enemy dollar successfully overcomes the bar in six rubles, thirty and sixty. I even got to eighty-four. And here, through the years, full financial stability is visible.
The media is full of reports of massive corruption. Apparently, for the valiant corrupt officials and other fighters with the budget, complete stability has also come. Russia has become a paradise for them, a sort of bottomless barrel, from where you can scoop and scoop. Scooped - and a new managerial position. Or to London.
In about two decades Russia "Settled" over 140 billions of dollars in debt to foreign countries. I mean forgiven. Why does Russia need currency? Thank you, we do not need, we have stability!
In 1990, after winning the Cold War, Western economists and politicians called Russia the future raw materials appendage of the West. Their prediction came true: Russia really turned into a raw semi-colony of the West. The current budget is replenished mainly by revenues related to the sale of raw materials abroad. Such incomes are now more than 36%, and earlier they averaged about 50%. They would probably still be 40% or 50% even now, if not for the decline in world oil prices. And it’s scary to imagine what would happen with such a budget if the price of dollars falls to twenty per barrel. True, a year ago Comrade Medvedev reassured the Russians: he said that the structure of the country's economy was changing. He mentioned, of course, and raw material incomes. “Concerning the income, too, it seems to me, a pleasant moment: over the past year we have almost two-thirds, and in other words, 64 percent of income is generated from non-oil sources, these are the so-called non-oil revenues,” сказал he.
However, a few months earlier, V. V. Putin call the only superpower in the US world. Speaking in the summer of 2016 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the president said:
Accept! That is why the people in Russia sincerely regret the USSR — so sincerely that even the Washington Post writes about it. The USSR was a real superpower and was able to be self-sufficient, which cannot be said from market-dependent Russia, which is thrown into capitalist trepidation and the price of oil with gas, and Western sanctions, and the next “Kremlin lists”, because of which other “patriots” suddenly become citizens of Malta.
Does the Russian people feel nostalgic for queues for bananas and toilet paper? It can be assumed that only McFaul has such memories.
- Oleg Chuvakin
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