Liberal world and Russia
Any person's autobiography is story rivalry between its two inalienable principles: spiritual (striving for knowledge, creativity, justice, virtues) and physiological (striving for physical pleasures, profit, power, unlimited consumption).
The history of human society is a struggle against evil generated by human ambitions, in fact, with the physiological principle of personality. All great upheavals - conspiracies, revolutions, wars, are associated with the interests of specific individuals, their desire to obtain (maintain) power, material benefits.
And the words of Abbot Fario from The Count of Monte Cristo:
"Evil cannot be defeated, for the fight against evil is life",
reflect this reality and will never lose their relevance.
The creator of the liberal idea and the liberal worldview in general was the English philosopher John Locke. He was the first to name natural human rights as the highest social values - the right to life, freedom. And he introduced the concept of private property as an integral part of these rights. At the same time, he pointed out that "property" is inviolable and must be protected by the state. And the very influence of the state and the church on the life of society should be limited by law.
Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith filled the liberal idea created by John Locke with economic content. He introduced the concept
"Natural order"
in the form of market relations.
Market relations, as a self-sufficient and autonomous system, according to A. Smith are regulated by the “invisible hand” of the market, which leads to an equilibrium of supply and demand. Market relations are based on private interest and the pursuit of self-interest, based on egoism - an effective lever for the allocation of various resources. At the same time, the accumulated capital and the resulting inequality, according to A. Smith, were defined as a natural "given", which, in fact, was a further development of John Locke's idea of private property.
Having received such a form, liberalism as a worldview, as a civilizational and economic idea, which gave birth to a new socio-economic model of society - capitalism, which is called it broke free.
In the United States, "no longer a government of the people's will"
The face of today's liberal world is defined by the United States, with all liberal values - human rights, democracy, the principles of power sharing, the rule of law, etc. All textbooks of law indicate that power is divided into three branches - legislative, executive and judicial. And not a single textbook indicates that there is also power, to a large extent more powerful, not controlled by anyone, and also independent from the state itself and from any democratic procedures. But at the same time, this is a power that significantly affects the life of every person. This is financial power, the very "invisible hand" of market relations - a natural product of the liberal system.
In the United States, financial power was separated into a separate branch of government and transferred to a private structure - the "Federal Reserve System" (FRS) on December 23, 1913 with the adoption of the Federal Reserve Act. According to the said law, the FRS was allocated the functions of the central bank, delegated the right to issue money and lend.
US President Woodrow Wilson, who signed the Federal Reserve Act, subsequently noted:
“Our industrial power is controlled by the credit system. And the credit system is concentrated in private hands.
The growth of our country and all our activities are under the control of a few people who, even if they were honest and acted in the interests of the people, are still concerned about the business where their money circulates, and who, by the nature of their activities, will certainly destroy genuine economic freedom ...
We are no longer a government of the people's will, not a government of an elected majority, but a government ruled by a handful of managers. "
The growth of our country and all our activities are under the control of a few people who, even if they were honest and acted in the interests of the people, are still concerned about the business where their money circulates, and who, by the nature of their activities, will certainly destroy genuine economic freedom ...
We are no longer a government of the people's will, not a government of an elected majority, but a government ruled by a handful of managers. "
W. Wilson's words do not require additional comments on the consequences that have come, which have defined the face of the new liberal world in the United States.
At one time, one of the founders of the Fed - Mayer Amschel Rothschild said the following:
"Give me control over the issue of money in the state and I won't care who writes its laws."
After receiving these rights to issue money and lend (including the state), the United States turned into a military-political entity - a debtor to the Fed, ensuring its world financial dominance.
It is impossible to find a reasonable explanation for why all US citizens regularly donate a significant part of their money earned to a useless (from the point of view of common sense) private organization. Except for one thing, it is the collusion of the elites.
Only to pay off interest on existing debts, the United States pays $ 450 billion annually, of which 2/3 are debts to banks that are part of the Fed. Attempts by various US statesmen to get rid of such a domestic problem as the Fed have always ended sadly for them.
Fed monster
Until 1944, the Fed was exclusively a US problem.
But following the results of the Bretton Woods conference held in 1944 and with the signing of the corresponding agreement, the US Federal Reserve gained global financial power and turned into a problem for all mankind.
Structures such as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were created as a mechanism for financial dominance. Including through these structures, the FRS got the opportunity to influence the governments of debtor countries by making recommendations binding for implementation, changing objectionable governments, defaults, and conspiracies. With the sole purpose of obtaining super-profits (at the expense of the debtor powers).
In today's liberal world, US dollars have become the equivalent of independence, freedom and prosperity. And the US Federal Reserve, which issues these same dollars and determines their value and flows, has become a kind of issuer of independence and prosperity.
It should be noted that the former USSR signed the Bretton Woods agreement, but subsequently did not ratify it, since I.V. Stalin well understood the consequences of the financial dominance of the US Federal Reserve for the USSR.
To ensure its prosperous existence in the United States itself, the FRS had to become the dominant financial force and provide a prosperous standard of living for ordinary citizens.
To ensure the global financial dominance of the FRS, the US dollar issued in circulation was to become the only global means of capital conservation, lending and mutual settlements. And the US military was supposed to provide the world financial order established by the FRS.
Historically, this was facilitated by the outcome of the Second World War and exorbitant consumption (primarily by the US Department of Defense), which largely exceeded the capabilities of the US economy itself.
But, as you know, it is impossible to endlessly build up debts. Sooner or later they will have to be paid off. Otherwise, this financial pyramid will inevitably collapse with unpredictable consequences. And until now, the United States has been able to pay off its debts by obtaining new loans, primarily from the Fed or at someone else's expense.
A significant part of the income received by various US financial structures is not associated with the real sector of the economy. For the owners of the US dollar printing press, this is not necessary.
The shortest way to obtain superprofits is the redistribution of income from the real sector of the economy around the world through various machinations, which, in fact, is a crime. Behind all the major international financial frauds, defaults, bankruptcies, coups in various countries, the economic interest of the US Federal Reserve is always visible. Here are some examples.
The date September 16, 1992 went down in the history of England as Black Wednesday. On this day, there was a sharp reduction in the price of the British pound against the dollar and the German mark. This was the result of the actions of financial speculators. And, above all, the American hedge fund "Quantum" (headed by D. Soros), the banks "Citicorp", "J. P. Morgan "(part of the Fed) and others. The overall fall of the pound against the dollar as a result of the fraud was 25%.
The total losses for the British budget amounted to several billion dollars. This event clearly demonstrated the ability of US hedge funds, which have the ability to receive virtually unlimited funds, to bring even the financially sophisticated British government to its knees.
In 2001, the Greek government made a deal with Goldman Sachs Bank (part of the Fed). As a result of the transaction, the bank received significant assets and benefits from the Greek government. Presumably, the Greek government had its own corruption benefits, but this is not known for certain.
The deal allowed the Greek government to demonstrate that the Greek statistics are in compliance with the EU requirements.
Subsequently, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated the following about this transaction:
"It would be a shame if it turns out that the banks, which have already pushed us to the edge of the abyss, were also involved in falsifying Greek statistics."
But, as you know, economics, as a science, does not operate with moral terminology.
And little Greece with its huge debts of 300 billion euros (note - to the commercial banks behind which the Fed stands) turned out to be a financial threat to the entire European Union. If commercial banks demand immediate repayment of debts and refusal to restructure them, this will lead to default in Greece. What will entail the insolvency of Italy, Spain, Portugal, and then the entire European Union.
The total losses of the European Union, according to the most conservative estimates, in this case will exceed 2 trillion euros. Thus, the entire European Union, like the United States, has become a structure dependent on the FRS. And not only due to the existing debts of Greece.
Under such circumstances, there can be no question of any independence of the European Union.
In 2008-2009, the Fed printed and put into circulation $ 16,1 trillion, which were transferred to banks that are part of the Fed. In fact, the owners of the Fed have become richer at once. And the whole world, respectively, is poorer by the indicated amount.
After this became known and caused a scandal, the head of the Fed Ben Shalom said the following:
"The Fed is an organization that is not a government institution, and therefore has no obligations to the Americans and is not going to report on its credit policy."
For 2020, the Fed issued over 4 trillion additional unsecured US dollars in circulation. By itself, such an issue is an unfair redistribution of real world assets in favor of the owners of the Fed in exchange for unsecured dollars, in fact, for paper with banknotes depicted on it.
The Fed, through the issuance of unsecured US dollars, took possession of colossal material assets and media resources. And it turned into a world empire on which the entire global economy and the well-being of each state depend.
But the US appetite has grown so much that the Fed is no longer able to meet its needs, as evidenced by America's huge and constantly growing national debt, which largely depreciates the dollar as a means of payment.
The US dollar began to irrevocably lose its function as world money. And, as a consequence, an imminent global crisis is coming. As the world legal order based (following the Bretton Woods conference) on the dominance of the US dollar is coming to an end.
But the Fed does not intend to lose its global financial dominance. To maintain its dominance, the Fed can easily overturn the EU economy. And not only. If this turns out to be insufficient, then the US military will be used for its intended purpose.
According to Forbes, the owners of the Fed are orders of magnitude richer than the richest people, but no one will ever write about them. These people are completely non-public. They are the ones who build the world in accordance with their ideas about how it should be.
And he has already become different. The current liberal world is a society in which law (as a regulator of public relations) is replaced by the rules established by the owners of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Where competition and free markets are crowded out by protectionism and sanctions. And the violation of human rights is used as a basis for the destruction of states and the overthrow of unwanted governments. Now the results of democratic elections are being substituted by the calculations of persons interested in concrete results. We see all this on the example of not only the current United States.
There is no place for a prosperous Russia in this FRS world
It can be argued with certainty that there is no place in the world for prosperous Russia in the perception of the owners of the FRS.
Since 1992, the USSR ceased to exist. And the Russian elite has moved Russia into the world's liberal arms.
The place in the liberal continuum for Russia was determined as follows: a financial and raw material colony and a market for goods and services of international corporations. Due to this, further growth of the US economy and, accordingly, the repayment of existing debts should have been ensured. The financial elites of the United States are interested in the deindustrialization of not only Russia and China, but also their close partners - the same England and the European Union. The leader of the world economy needs sales markets, not competitors.
In these conditions, the intentions of the President and the Government of Russia to continue the privatization of state assets look very strange. In particular, such as Aeroflot, VTB Bank, etc. And it should be noted that this controversial initiative is being adopted in conditions of a budget surplus.
If American funds take possession of Aeroflot, there will be no room for MC-21 airliners. If the commercial banks of Russia are taken over, the consequences for the financial system of the Russian Federation will be the most dire. And the Fed, if there is a need to privatize Russian assets, will print the required amount of US banknotes.
Despite the growth of Russia's defense capacity and some successes in certain sectors of the economy, liberal Russia remains in the place indicated to it, without any potential opportunities to change the situation for the better.
As a result, the achievements of the Russian Federation in 28 years of its existence are incomparable with the achievements of the USSR in 28 years after the Second World War in any respect.
The growth of the economy of any country in the liberal world is associated exclusively with investment. All Russian elite
"Prays" to the "nameless investor"
who should come and build factories and plants, provide citizens with high wages, the budget - income. Although all of them are aware of the fact that at the moment not a single dollar (or euro) will be allowed by the owners of the FRS to invest in the real economy of Russia. With all the ensuing consequences of this circumstance.
Today's Russia, like a delinquent child, is punished financially for disobedience: for the withdrawal of assets from American securities, for the construction of Nord Stream 2 (a competitor of liquefied gas from the USA), for timid attempts to revive the domestic aircraft industry (sanctions for the construction of the MS-21 airliner ), for attempts to conduct an independent policy.
The multi-billion claims of Ukraine and Poland were satisfied. $ 57 billion is subject to recovery under the Yukos lawsuit (for comparison, the budget of the Russian Defense Ministry is less than $ 50 billion). A decision on the case concerning MN-17 is on its way.
We will learn in the coming years how the liberal elite of Russia will get out of this financial bondage. But, as experience shows, it will be necessary to pay either by the loss of a part of state sovereignty, or by a drop in the level of income and savings of Russian citizens.
At the same time, no one will ever condemn the United States, as the leader of the liberal world, for using nuclear weapons against civilians. weapons in Japan, napalm, chemical weapons in Korea, Vietnam, for the destroyed Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia, etc.
As mentioned above, wars, revolutions, coups, crimes are the best ways to get super profits. And it is precisely this circumstance that determines the fact that the United States is the absolute leader in unleashing wars in the world in the twentieth century.
And this unjust world is a direct product of the ideas of liberalism.
The liberal world is a society with pragmatic rules of market relations, a life without empathy and compassion. Profit-motivated "efficient" owners, bankers, managers are not able to change the environment for the better.
The liberal idea has exhausted itself.
And the whole world is in this connection in the deepest crisis.
Lot of Russia
What is the place of liberal Russia in the liberal world?
The elite of Russia was not accepted among the elected world liberal elite on terms acceptable to it and the country. All further developments are conditioned by this circumstance.
Russia found itself in a hostile environment of the collective West and the former Soviet republics. NATO troops and bases are deployed near our borders. And this may seem strange.
Liberal Russia has virtually the same liberal-democratic model as the United States and Western Europe. It develops its economy according to the same market laws, transfers (privatizes) the assets of Russia to various corporations.
The USSR, which had a different socio-economic model, threatening the liberal world by the very fact of its existence, ceased to exist.
Of course, the question arises - what is the reason for the aggressive behavior of the USA towards Russia?
First of all, because the collective West has exhausted its potential for peaceful development. Market consumption has reached possible limits. Further growth of the economy of the leaders of the liberal world can only be ensured by eliminating competitors and redistributing the remaining resources. And the actions of the United States with its partners in relation to Russia should be understood as forcing the Russian elite to fulfill the role prepared for the Russian state - a financial and raw material colony.
To understand what the United States is striving for, an analogy with Yugoslavia should be drawn. The West destroyed Yugoslavia as a state, as a competitor, placing the remaining republics in the places they had determined. At the same time, "human rights" and liberal values, according to Western analysts, were observed. The leaders of the liberal world see and prepare the same future for Russia.
Building a prosperous liberal Russia apart from the entire liberal world (behind the Iron Curtain) is impossible. The Russian economy is largely integrated into the global one. Significant assets are held by foreign corporations. In addition, the "Iron Curtain" runs counter to the interests of the liberal Russian elite - to live and keep their savings and income in hard currency abroad. In fact, the Russian elite is dependent on the Fed, which, if necessary, can deprive it of all assets located outside of Russia by imposing new sanctions.
Building a prosperous Russia in a liberal world means competing with other countries of the other world for a better place in the sun (read - under the Fed).
In the liberal world, everything is interconnected - if someone becomes more prosperous and richer, someone must become poorer. And this is determined by the financial flows, which are directly or indirectly controlled by the US Federal Reserve. Building a prosperous liberal Russia under these conditions is completely futile. And it is limited by the fact that all places “under the FRS sun” in the liberal world have already been allocated and secured by the corresponding unions.
Redistribution of places in the ranking of prosperous countries is a war. Both the West and Russia are intensively preparing for this war. And the only question is whether it will be possible to avoid it? And what could be the price of a compromise for Russia if it is found?
The loss of savings by the citizens of Russia (due to the machinations of world financial speculators) will never be announced to us. The sharp fall of the ruble against the dollar has become an ordinary event with no consequences for the ruling elite.
In fact, the landslide devaluation of the ruble (and, as a consequence, the loss of their savings by Russian citizens) is an additional tax on each citizen in favor of financial speculators, which is associated with the incompetence or unwillingness of the National Bank and the government to prevent these machinations and protect the interests of ordinary citizens. And this tax applies exclusively to ordinary citizens, since the oligarchs do not keep their savings in rubles and Russian banks.
Thus, a change in Russia's position for the better in the liberal world (and, as a consequence, an improvement in the life of Russian citizens) is not in sight in any future. And this should be taken for granted.
And the citizens of Russia, it seems, are satisfied with this state of affairs. At least, this is evidenced by the election results. What we vote for is what we have.
According to one of the founders of the science of "state and law" I. Ilyin, the construction of a socially just state, where everyone will be given the right to realize himself as a highly spiritualized person, where the contradiction associated with personal and public interest will be justly resolved, is possible only in one case - reaching a level of public consciousness that makes it possible to realize the need to build such a state. It should be noted that the Russian society did not realize that a change in the socio-economic model is necessary in Russia.
And the question of whether liberal Russia has a bright future in the liberal world, and the overwhelming majority of citizens - the prospect of achieving a standard of living similar to the citizens of Western Europe, remains without an affirmative answer.
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