Why is the West beating us? From an engineer's point of view
First about the economy
Excerpts from the article “Economy in shackles” by N. Arefiev dated 01.06.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX:
“At the beginning of the First World War, Tsar Nicholas II was informed that the enterprises were sabotaging the supply of weapons. It turned out that 42% of enterprises belong to foreign investors from unfriendly countries. They carried out nationalization, brought the foreign presence to 12%, and weapons began to enter the army.
We have: 65% of large property owned by foreigners; 92% of trade belongs to foreign trading networks; the main systemic banks, the largest companies, almost half of which are foreign. Russia was bought and fell under the total control of the West.
In fact, we in Russia own little. And no one will allow us to reform someone else's. In this situation, we need to create our own economy.”
We have: 65% of large property owned by foreigners; 92% of trade belongs to foreign trading networks; the main systemic banks, the largest companies, almost half of which are foreign. Russia was bought and fell under the total control of the West.
In fact, we in Russia own little. And no one will allow us to reform someone else's. In this situation, we need to create our own economy.”
I admit that Arefiev exaggerates, even if by half, but even then it's scary. What kind of import substitution is there! What kind of economic development is there!
It is generally interesting with representatives of the socio-economic bloc.
Yes, even take applications for pensions, which show the attitude towards people. Someone can say that pensioners help their children and grandchildren, which means they live well. What's your business? What have you done for the country? Medicine optimized?
Someone else can say that after the pension reform, pensioners will be able to travel around the world. Well, yes. Vaughn Chubais and Dvorkovich left to travel around, only for an increased pension, because checkmate to you, opponents of pension reform!
And the statement of two not the last persons in the economy that it is necessary to file with Western courts to return the three hundred billion dollars stolen by the West, who are they intended for? Moreover, these two participated in the direction of these billions to the West. They called it the "airbag".
Well, purely intellectuals
In 2016, the States took over our offices in America. And what was our reaction? And it is such that the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a conciliatory statement like "Let's live together." That's when the time of no return came. I think that at that time the West decided that Russia would forgive a lot for the normalization of relations. And how many times after that did we hear menacing words from the Foreign Ministry about this or that action of the West: "This is counterproductive."
And it got to the point that even the Eastern European trifle is not afraid to do us disgusting things. Why don't we follow the example of the States, which immediately put even allies in their place? Why did they forgive dirty tricks from neighbors, all sorts of Tribalts and Bulgarians for decades?
For example, a certain country has caused us hundreds of millions of damage, and we want to shake these hundreds from it. And that's it. And according to the science of management, it was necessary not only to tear off the costs of the unbuilt gas pipeline from it, but also to guess the expulsion of guest workers for the elections and something else to do, and not to stretch these measures in time.
The control (corrective) action, in response to the deviation of the process from the normal, should be bоlarger than the deviation. Precisely bоbig. Otherwise, in foreign policy, you get an intelligentsia that is unnecessary for the country, corrupting the “partner”.
And yet, pay attention to the frequent statements of our officials: "In response to ... we ...". And oddly enough, no one cares. And this is what infuriates me. If I'm not mistaken, political scientist Sergei Mikheev asked the question: "Why do they fool you all the time?" And the answer is on the surface! That's why they circle it because "in response to ..."
They, the West, are not smarter at all, they just got used to the fact that we all want to make peace with them and therefore sit on the defensive in politics, in the economy, in the information war, in culture, completely giving the initiative to the enemy. Naturally, guessing the actions of someone sitting on the defensive is not difficult, and it is not a problem to come up with effective actions against him, so it turns out that we are being fooled like foolish children.
In conclusion
A good manager will think over in advance (organize analysis by subordinates) negative scenarios in space and, the most difficult, in time, and plan (select from those offered) the best option with little or no failures or with minimal failures and ways to eliminate them. This is the aerobatics of management, and it is called "preventive actions."
But the development of measures for the negative results that have already happened is an adjustment. And if the adjustment happens in many cases, such as "In response to ...", then this leader works as a "fireman", rushing around on emerging troubles, and does not prevent fires.
Of course, if we begin to act as expected, i.e., on our own initiative, then there will be many dissatisfied people in the West and among the untouchables. They have lost the habit of the country's independence in everything, and for them it will be, to put it mildly, unusual. So what? The Russian state - for their country of Russia, or what? And let the rest get used to sitting upright.
By origin I am from the Orthodox, from the side of grandfathers and grandmothers. Moreover, he was brought up on Russian literature. But I like Jewish jokes for their figurativeness, bitingness, and unexpected twists. True, there is a reasonable suspicion that they were also composed by Russians.
Reminds me of a good Jewish anecdote:
- But why did you not consult with Rabinovich when choosing economists and representatives of foreign policy?
- With what other Rabinovich?
- Oh my God! Same with anyone!
So either we will effectively fight all at the same time, with strict responsibility for the task assigned, or ...
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