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Parasitism is the basis of the prosperity of the Western world

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Parasitism is the basis of the prosperity of the Western world



Civilization of death


Eldorado (Spanish: el dorado - “golden country”) is a mythical South American country rich in gold and precious stones. In the fruitless search for Eldorado, the XNUMXth-century conquistadors paved new paths deep into South America. In a figurative sense, this word refers to the place where you can quickly get rich.

Western civilization since the time of Ancient Rome has lived by expansion and robbery of neighboring peoples, cultures and civilizations. The robbery of neighbors and the colonization of the occupied territories led to the flourishing of the metropolis. The Western world, led by Catholic Rome, led the onslaught to the North, East and South. However, in the east, the Russian superethnos (Rus) stopped the advance of the western predator. In the south, the Western crusaders were also rebuffed by Muslim Saracens.

The Western world without an influx of fresh blood and energy (prey), like a kind of vampire ghoul (one of the favorite images of Western cinema), was doomed to degradation and death. Therefore, the papal throne used the knowledge of the ancient world, which knew the cultures and civilizations on other continents. The Portuguese moved further into the global South, bypassing the strong and warlike Moors. This allowed the Western world to get to the treasures of Black Africa (slaves, ivory, gold, etc.), and then to India, Indochina.

In the XNUMXth century, the Spanish conquistadors defeated and plundered the unique South American civilizations of the Aztecs and Incas. The Spanish soldiery plundered mountains of priceless works of Indian art that had accumulated for centuries, if not millennia.

South American temples were robbed, priceless artifacts were melted down into gold bars. Thousands of tons of gold and silver poured into Europe. The stream never stopped.

The colonialists drove the Indian slaves into the gold and silver mines. The flow of loot gave impetus to the manufactories of Holland and England, the Renaissance in Italy, crafts in France and Germany.

Moreover, the Spaniards and the Portuguese opened the way for other predators - the British, French, Dutch, etc. The "development" of South and North America begins.

Moreover, the new colonizers have become even more terrible than the robbers of the first wave. The Spaniards after the first battles and robberies somewhat calmed down. The Indians were converted to Christianity, Catholicism merges with local paganism (local priests turned a blind eye to this). Spanish soldiers, officials take local girls as their wives. A new generation is born. That is, in general, Catholics began to look at the Indians as people.

But the Protestants, with their ideology of dividing people into “chosen by God” (rich) and “losers”-poor people, were much worse. They did not consider the local natives as people. They were goods for them, things. If the natives offered resistance, then they were destroyed with the help of "fire water", diseases (weapon genocide), were simply hanged and shot. They cleared the "living space" like the Nazis in Russia.

Russian Eldorado


Having plundered the American eldorado, the Europeans moved on.

A New El Dorado for the Western World in the XNUMXth–XNUMXth Centuries. became India. The pearl of the British crown fed the British Empire for two centuries, having lost tens of millions of people during wars, epidemics, drugs and famine. On the millennial riches of Indian civilization, accumulated in the subcontinent, gold, precious stones, raw materials and cheap labor, the world empire of the British rose and stood. Plus selling drugs. This allowed the British to be the first to create a civilization of railways, steam engines, electric telegraph and steamboats. India has become a donor of the industrial revolution in the Western world.

A similar role, but on a smaller scale, was played by Africa, from which millions of people were taken out as a slave force (a significant part of them simply died during transportation).

Using the policy of divide, pit and conquer, Westerners have robbed a lot of tribes, peoples, cultures and civilizations. Huge China was generally made into a drug addict country, where every third, if not second, resident became drug addicted. And when the Chinese rebelled, they were suppressed by force, forcing them to buy opium. Along the way, taking out the treasures and silver of an ancient civilization.

Nothing is eternal under the Moon. The planet is finite. Almost the entire globe was divided into colonies and semi-colonies (Ottoman Empire, China). Western parasites-vampires faced the threat of the most severe crisis (crisis of capitalism). A great slaughter was brewing inside the Western world: the Anglo-Saxons, together with the Romanesque world, against the Germanic world.

At the end of the XNUMXth - beginning of the XNUMXth century, Russia remained the only civilization that was not plundered. Only the robbery of our country would help the West avoid a severe crisis. Russian wealth and resources allowed the West to make a new breakthrough in development and move the crisis into the future.

How did the West do it?

Russia was dragged into an unnecessary war for us. The Russians and the Germans had nothing to share. They were doomed to a strategic partnership. This was the salvation of human civilization, the guarantee of prosperity and development of mankind. But the Russians and Germans, who were the most dangerous threat to the Anglo-Saxons, were dragged into the slaughter. Our empires have been shattered and robbed to the bone.

Empires weakened by the world war were destroyed from the inside with the help of revolutions. Neither Germany nor Russia lost the war. The West prepared and nurtured the fifth column, the professional revolutionaries.

The elite of the Russian Empire was infected with Westernism. She made a revolution to make Russia part of the Western world, on the model of France or England.

The autocracy and the empire were destroyed and a Pandora's box was opened. The embarrassment began.

To be continued ...
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  1. Pavel73
    Pavel73 2 August 2023 05: 10
    +2
    So now try to re-educate them ...
    1. Mikhail Krivopalov
      Mikhail Krivopalov 2 August 2023 18: 06
      +1
      And Russia is so big because it was the most peaceful? We will not dig into the depths, but take at least the beginning of the XNUMXth century, because of what the Russo-Japanese war began, not because of the fact that Korea was divided? And when Russian troops, together with Western troops, staged a punitive expedition and captured Beijing in order to suppress the people's liberation uprising in China? ... That's when each of you thinks that other countries historically have blood on their hands up to their ears, and their own history is white and fluffy, remember that in England, the USA, Germany, Japan, etc., the same patriots of their countries sit and consider her country is exceptionally white and fluffy, bringing only everything good to the world, while her neighbors spoiled her throughout history.
      1. qQQQ
        qQQQ 3 August 2023 09: 43
        +8
        Quote: Mikhail Krivopalov
        And Russia is so big because it was the most peaceful?

        So big because they offered a slightly different concept. We raised the conquered peoples to our level, making no difference between our own and others. And the West reduced the natives to the level of slaves, while simply robbing them. The Russians did not genocide the conquered peoples, hence the diversity now in the Russian Federation, the rest strove for the opposite, i.e. leave one nation. It may not have been peaceful, but definitely more fair and humane.
      2. Pravodel
        Pravodel 3 August 2023 10: 39
        +5
        And Russia is so big because it was the most peaceful?

        Dear Mikhail Krivopalov, there is no need to distort and babble what is written in the article. TsMPSO methods will not work here. You will not be able to cover up all the horror that rushes from the very existence of Western civilization with small fig leaves. The essence of the existence of which is the robbery and destruction of peoples.
        The article is not about who and how Russia helped, but about what lies at the basis of Western and Russian civilization. So, at the heart of Western civilization since the Great Schism is robbery = robbery and destruction of other peoples. Initially, under the guise of crusades, including campaigns against Rus', and then in the form of colonialism and genocide = the extermination of entire peoples. The ideological basis of the robbery and destruction of peoples during the Crusades - the preservation and protection of the Holy Sepulcher and conversion to Catholicism - the Slavs of Europe, the crusades against Russia, and during the period of colonialism - the racial theory of the inferiority of peoples, which later transformed into outright fascism, under the cover of which the West he destroyed entire ethnic groups, for example, Indians in America, shot sepoys tied to the muzzles of guns, put the Chinese on opium, caught and exported blacks to America, destroyed the Irish, etc. The West will never be able to wash off all this abomination that it did, ensuring its own existence.
        Robbery, extermination of peoples - the midwife of Western civilization. And this is the essence, the main core of the existence of Western civilization in the centuries and at the present time.
      3. Mike_E
        Mike_E 3 August 2023 22: 01
        -5
        In the domestic official historiography, it is not customary to evaluate Russian and, God forbid!, Soviet expansion as predatory or colonial. That is why it is impossible for us to have a sound view (outside a narrow circle) on our own history and the development of parallels with the history of the Western world. And, as a result, repentance and the realization that the neighbors DO NOT WANT to live the way we do.
        1. qQQQ
          qQQQ 4 August 2023 09: 03
          +3
          Quote: Mike_E
          And, as a result, repentance and the realization that the neighbors DO NOT WANT to live the way we do.

          To begin with, the neighbors have always been given the choice to live in peace and harmony, or to spoil us as before. And only after our kindness was perceived as weakness and continued to live as before, expansion followed, which had a defensive character for us.
          1. Mike_E
            Mike_E 4 August 2023 09: 21
            0
            Well, actually, a wonderful illustration - "defensive expansion". Bravo!
        2. Mixweb
          Mixweb 7 August 2023 07: 51
          -1
          Do not wait for "repentance"))) I generally believe that the ancestors were sometimes too peaceful. If I were out of place, such creatures calling for repentance would not even come into being.
        3. skifs
          skifs 8 August 2023 09: 48
          +1
          Mike_E
          Yah!
          Foreigners, recognizing the power of the tsar, received the right to protect their territories from the raids of their neighbors by the combined forces of both Russian settlers and friendly neighbors. It was forbidden to settle in their settlements and they were obliged to build fortresses and churches away from them. Visiting was by invitation only. Tribute was collected once a year. It was forbidden to interfere in the internal way of life of foreigners. Both sides were punished for theft (well, with protection, of course).
          We fought with others if we could not agree peacefully. To know foreigners was obliged to be at the royal court and the privileges were equal with the Russians.
          These were the royal laws or decrees.
          Well, we just exterminated the inhabitants of Russia like the British in Australia. There, the local population was slaughtered as much as 95%. Well, or they didn’t fire at the Sepaevs tied to the muzzles of guns for refusing to eat beef.
          Well, there is no such bestial sin on us. It was they who made parchment from the skin of babies taken from slaves (the skin is from children without hair), for which the Barbarians burned the manuscripts at the stake according to their custom. so that the souls of the innocent ascend to heaven, and the cities are destroyed and the inhabitants exterminated.
          We don't have much to complain about.
      4. Glagol1
        Glagol1 5 August 2023 09: 52
        +3
        Mikhail Krivolapov, you are both right and partly wrong. The basis of Russia's expansion was still the annexation of new territories and investments in their development. This is how Central Asia made a breakthrough in the 70th century, where industry and developed agriculture appeared. The standard of living pulled up to the RSFSR and averaged 10% of it. The West, on the contrary, did not pull the colonies to itself, but stupidly robbed them, and the standard of living differed XNUMX times or worse. Our expansion led to development, and the expansion of the West led to poverty.
        1. zenion
          zenion 6 August 2023 12: 54
          0
          The West had to do this, because, like in Russia, they did not have close neighbors who could be robbed. If anyone has read about Yermak, then what the Russian expanders of good did will not always seem acceptable. There is such an anecdote when the wife of the party secretary tells him - and our bd is the most beautiful.
  2. north 2
    north 2 2 August 2023 05: 55
    +15
    the assertion that the Germans and Russians had nothing to share is unconvincing. The Germans were not ready for the division of Russia until there was Germany. And when they created the German Empire, it was Germany that later initiated the creation of the Tripartite Alliance, because the German Empire was without colonies, and it was not enough to get a colony alone without Austria-Hungary and Italy. By the time the German state was created, by that time who had no colonies! Starting with England and ending with what be Belgium. Yes, Germany grabbed something that has not yet been divided and not colonized in
    Africa, but the fact that under its side there is the richest and "undeveloped" Russia by any of the colonialists, the Germans saw this and, having created the German Empire, they immediately "rolled their lips". Everything is nearby, just rob!
    So the Germans certainly had views of the wealth of Russia.
    1. kor1vet1974
      kor1vet1974 2 August 2023 08: 23
      +9
      So the Germans certainly had views of the wealth of Russia.
      Both the French and the Belgians, an interesting moment, by the beginning of the WWI, all the tram companies in the Republic of Ingushetia belonged to the Belgians and the British laid eyes since the time of Ivan the Terrible, when the Moscow Trading Company was founded, which existed until October 1917 smile
    2. Glagol1
      Glagol1 5 August 2023 10: 00
      +2
      That's right, the Germans have always looked to the east. But something else is also true. Any union of Germany and Russia for the Anglo-Saxons was a nightmare, and they skillfully blew everything up. By the way, the Ukrainian crisis of 2014 is another step in this endless history, in 2013 the foreign economic exchange between Russia and Germany was already 70 billion euros, close to China, both countries were successfully moving forward. Well, they blew up a mine. Of course, we have lost a lot, but we have territorial and human acquisitions, the Germans lost in everything. Now they wipe their feet on them.
  3. Kojote21
    Kojote21 2 August 2023 06: 18
    -1
    Good morning everybody! hi
    The author mentioned America, quite a bit Africa and partly Asia (India is in Asia), even mother Russia, but nothing about Australia ... it's sad ... because Australia was an English colony! We now see evidence that Australia belonged to Britain. Suffice it to recall the fact that Australia is a monarchy, and the British King Charles III rules in it!
    Besides, does he know why China, Korea and Japan did not become colonies of the West? Does he know what "China Shutdown" and "Japan Shutdown" are?
    1. Kojote21
      Kojote21 2 August 2023 06: 53
      +1
      This is what the flags of Great Britain and Australia look like. You can even say that the flag of Australia is the flag of Great Britain.
      1. Escariot
        Escariot 2 August 2023 07: 05
        +6
        Well, formally, they are still bound by a personal Union and are part of the Commonwealth (a kind of Union State). Moreover, Australia is a purely migrant colony, to which the Empire gave independence on the principle - "take sovereignty as much as you want."
        1. nemez
          nemez 2 August 2023 08: 21
          +5
          The British Commonwealth of Nations (how pathetic it sounds, it's already disgusting) - Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, India, etc. Allegedly, a voluntary commonwealth.
          1. Mikhail Krivopalov
            Mikhail Krivopalov 2 August 2023 18: 14
            -3
            Toli business of the CIS as it sounds - Commonwealth of Independent States - esn Ge
        2. Glagol1
          Glagol1 5 August 2023 10: 03
          0
          And a place of deportation of unwanted and criminals. Like Siberia in our time.
    2. kor1vet1974
      kor1vet1974 2 August 2023 08: 29
      +2
      Why didn't China, Korea and Japan become colonies of the West?
      How lucky, China became a semi-colony, Korea became a colony of Japan, and Japan was lucky, during the reform they carried out ..
      1. Kojote21
        Kojote21 2 August 2023 09: 06
        0
        Quote: kor1vet1974
        Why didn't China, Korea and Japan become colonies of the West?
        How lucky, China became a semi-colony, Korea became a colony of Japan, and Japan was lucky, during the reform they carried out ..

        It was actually a rhetorical question...
        1. kor1vet1974
          kor1vet1974 2 August 2023 09: 31
          +2
          It was actually a rhetorical question...
          Well, sorry .. for the rhetorical answer
          1. Kojote21
            Kojote21 2 August 2023 10: 15
            0
            Quote: kor1vet1974
            It was actually a rhetorical question...
            Well, sorry .. for the rhetorical answer

            It is OK, it happens...
            1. kor1vet1974
              kor1vet1974 2 August 2023 12: 06
              +2
              Yes, especially rhetorical questions, this is more common than answers laughing
  4. Escariot
    Escariot 2 August 2023 07: 00
    +6
    The author is probably not aware that all the mines of Spain in America gave the Crown less gold than the Lowlands provinces.
    1. Kojote21
      Kojote21 2 August 2023 08: 22
      +1
      Quote from Escariot
      than the Lowland Provinces

      Do you mean the Spanish Netherlands?
    2. Stirbjorn
      Stirbjorn 2 August 2023 08: 36
      +13
      Quote from Escariot
      The author is probably not aware that all the mines of Spain in America gave the Crown less gold than the Lowlands provinces.
      Another Samsonism. You might think that someone in those days did not rob. The barbarians plundered the Roman Empire, the Vikings plundered the western kingdoms, then the Arabs, and after the Mongols, and then the Turks of Tamerlane, then the Ottomans ... the Japanese also made their mark in the East, and everyone robbed no less than the West.
      1. Aldmit_2
        Aldmit_2 2 August 2023 09: 46
        +9
        Yeah. Everyone robbed and only Russia "grew" the Urals, Siberia ...))
        1. kor1vet1974
          kor1vet1974 2 August 2023 10: 13
          +5
          only Russia "grew"
          Alaska, California smile But it's different, you know... smile
        2. Scientist
          Scientist 2 August 2023 10: 22
          +13
          And you can laugh as much as you like, but it grew. Firstly, not all new territories were captured by Russia, many joined voluntarily. Secondly, even the occupied territories were not "milked" dry, but developed on a par, and often faster, than the "metropolis". And, thirdly, name the people, at least one, that has been destroyed in the annexed territories over these centuries. By the way, the example of the modern Baltic states is very typical. The indigenous population under the "occupiers" grew, and under freedom and democracy it is catastrophically reduced.
          1. glestwid
            glestwid 2 August 2023 16: 52
            -9
            And what about the fact that it is shrinking? After n means due to.
            1. Scientist
              Scientist 2 August 2023 19: 42
              +4
              In pure theory, I agree. But if for this case you think that I am wrong, and these facts do not correlate, prove it. Otherwise, your comment is just idle talk.
    3. Mikhail Krivopalov
      Mikhail Krivopalov 2 August 2023 18: 16
      +1
      If I’m not mistaken, the foundations of Spain with colonies gave 1-1.5 million gold to the budget, and received 6 million from the Netherlands, well, capitalism was already young and vigorously marching there, while in Spain decaying feudalism
  5. Alex 1970
    Alex 1970 2 August 2023 07: 53
    +10
    New trends new / old curses towards the West, then they are our center of civilization, then a parasite on the body of the planet, and I’m not only talking about recent times, this is true throughout our history. We would have decided on a permanent basis "who is who", otherwise we will remain a country with an unpredictable past.
  6. kor1vet1974
    kor1vet1974 2 August 2023 08: 19
    +3
    Civilization of death
    It arose as soon as the Cro-Magnons moved from Africa to Eurasia (the grain deal ended) and destroyed the Neanderthals, and assimilated some part laughing
  7. ivan2022
    ivan2022 2 August 2023 08: 25
    +1
    Strange ...... We have ancient traditions since the time of Catherine .. The Germans Holstein - Gottorp were at the helm until 1917 .....
    And even now the impression is that they never left the Government anywhere.

    Nobody has ever conquered Russia. It's about peaceful state building. And there's just no choice...

    If society itself cannot create a state that acts for the benefit of society (simply because thieves cannot nominate real state builders from their midst, they themselves say: "... and for whom else? .. ") - then other peoples and states are taking over.

    These states, of course, steal, rob, but they also keep order ....

    For example, in the RSFSR in the late 80s, the production of meat, poultry, and dairy products, according to Rosstat, was no less than today in the Russian Federation and much more than in 2000 .....

    But there was a terrible Soviet shortage in stores. Why? Because the USSR was an independent state ... And as soon as the Gaidars and Chubais came - what just didn’t appear on the shelves !!!
    There is order!

    Well, really, but for whom else, and how else?
    Only mountains can be better than mountains ..... Only other people's thieves can be better than their own thieves!
    1. kor1vet1974
      kor1vet1974 2 August 2023 09: 35
      +1
      But there was a terrible Soviet shortage in stores. Why?
      The population grew and not weakly .. they did not have time ...
    2. Scientist
      Scientist 2 August 2023 10: 03
      +15
      Firstly, under the Soviet Union there was meat in the sausage, and it had to be grown. There are an order of magnitude fewer cows in Russia than in the Union, and there is plenty of milk. True, purchases of palm oil also increased by an order of magnitude.
      Second, as they said here, population growth in the Union and its decrease in Russia.
      Third, it was explained back in the Soviet joke of the late 80s: here we have a shortage of services, but there is no shortage of aircraft, so make a service at the price of an aircraft, and the shortage will disappear.
    3. tatra
      tatra 2 August 2023 10: 27
      +6
      But there was a terrible Soviet shortage in stores
      Because the Soviet communists at least tried to do something that not a single most developed capitalist country in the world could do - to provide their country with domestic production, and the people with cheap and natural products
      1. ivan2022
        ivan2022 3 August 2023 11: 12
        +2
        Quote: tatra
        But there was a terrible Soviet shortage in stores
        Because the Soviet communists at least tried to do something that not a single most developed capitalist country in the world could do - to provide their country with domestic production, and the people with cheap and natural products

        Greetings!
        But the problems in the USSR were not from the communists and not from their attempts to "do something."

        And from theft, betrayal and also the idiocy of the semi-feudal mores of the society. Idiocy is a completely different "....ism..." than communism.

        My thesis is confirmed by the fact that at the beginning of 1992 "Gaidar saved the country" - in one week .... And where did everything come from on the shelves? A biblical miracle happened: "there was not, and suddenly there is" ....

        But idiocy prevented society from seeing some contradiction in this phenomenon. laughing
    4. Mikhail Krivopalov
      Mikhail Krivopalov 2 August 2023 18: 19
      +2
      Well, only when there was nothing on the shelves, as a result of Khrushchev's turn to capitalism, the population of the country grew, and with the order of Gaidar and Chubais and full counters, it decreases. Apparently he does not realize his happiness
    5. Sugar Honeyovich
      Sugar Honeyovich 3 August 2023 03: 55
      +2
      Quote: ivan2022
      as soon as the Gaidars and Chubais came - what just didn’t appear on the shelves !!!
      There is order!

      Good "order", in which prices grew like bamboo after rain, and the enterprises did not pay salaries for months.
      1. ivan2022
        ivan2022 3 August 2023 11: 07
        -3
        Quote: Sugar Honeyovich
        Quote: ivan2022
        as soon as the Gaidars and Chubais came - what just didn’t appear on the shelves !!!
        There is order!

        Good "order", in which prices grew like bamboo after rain, and the enterprises did not pay salaries for months.

        And the order doesn't have to be good. He is what society deserves. For some, a well-deserved order is a place on the bunk at the bucket. AND IF THEY CONSIDER IT BAD, THESE ARE THEIR PROBLEMS. NOT ORDER.
        1. Sugar Honeyovich
          Sugar Honeyovich 4 August 2023 03: 53
          0
          Order may not be good, but in those years there was none.
  8. AdAstra
    AdAstra 2 August 2023 10: 10
    +3
    I read it, it's pretty interesting. The fact that they are like this is not something special, we, alas, are exactly the same, the "stars" just did not converge with us at a certain moment in this regard, but now we can write such articles. The stigma of the damned Westerners laughing
    1. kor1vet1974
      kor1vet1974 2 August 2023 10: 17
      +4
      In the 90s, when the West fed us with chicken legs and other "meals" in print media and on TV, they sang in chorus how the West saved and fed us all our lives when we quarreled, now you won’t hear anything like this on the Internet and on TV laughing
  9. RondelR
    RondelR 2 August 2023 10: 29
    +3
    Yes, the Saracens stopped the western expansion. Here I look at the map of the 6th century and there the eastern Roman Empire and Syria also owns Egypt. And already at 15, none of this. And at 17 Muslims at the gates of Vienna. This is how the expansion was stopped? Just the Muslims were rushing to Europe. They took over the Balkans.
    It's funny about Spain. During the 16-17th century, Spain declared bankruptcy about 10 times. That's how they got rich! And in the end, Spain lost to England, the colonies that were poor. And they lost due to the fact that in England the monarch did not have absolute power and state institutions worked much better than in Spain. As a result, it is not wealth that leads to development, but high-quality state institutions, and just England and Spain are a direct example.
    Or Prussia/German Empire. Prussia became economically developed by the 1870s before German unification. This is due to which colonies is interesting?) and then Germany did not have any rich colonies, but became the second industrial power in the world after the United States (which also has no colonies)
    About Russia is also funny. Open the map of Russia under Ivan 3. And then under Alexander 3. There certainly was no expansion) they were not chasing furs, they were not chasing cotton in Central Asia. The Russian Empire is expansion. This is one of the largest empires in history. But before the reforms of Alexander 2, there was no particular economic success. And only starting from the 1870s, per capita GDP moves off the ground, and by 1913 it will double, and the population begins to get richer and save more and more.
    The conclusion is simple, no robbery gives development. Gold and silver became a curse for the Spaniards, it ruined their empires and plunged them into endless defaults.
    Development is provided only by high-quality state institutions: a fair court, high-quality local government, high-quality education, and so on.
  10. Kostadinov
    Kostadinov 2 August 2023 10: 34
    +8
    The Russians and the Germans had nothing to share.

    Unfortunately, it's completely wrong.
    Germany in the first half of the 20th century was the most powerful imperialist state militarily, which, naturally, aspired to world hegemony.
    His main rivals the United States, England and France also naturally allied themselves to counter the threat of Germany.
    Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, the Ottoman Empire are minor players on the world stage in the First World War. By this time, Russia had already been defeated by Japan, and the Ottoman Empire by its small Balkan neighbors.
    For the Republic of Ingushetia, the victory of Germany in the First World War, no matter if it beat its ally or a neutral state, always meant disintegration and colonization by the Germans.
    There was no chance for a Soviet-German alliance in World War II either, since the leaders of the Reich, due to the same desire for world hegemony that is inherent in all imperialist states, attacked the USSR and thus destroyed their Reich.
    1. Mikhail Krivopalov
      Mikhail Krivopalov 2 August 2023 18: 28
      0
      If Germany had not colonized RI, then the French or the British would have done it, since RI was the world's largest debtor + the economy, although it ranked 6th in the world, was scanty against the background of the first three. As already mentioned here, the trams were 100% owned by the Belgians and the French, the hay market by 100% by the British, the banking sector by 70% by foreigners, heavy industry by 40% by foreigners ... It would just come to the fact that more developed financially and the economic plan of the country, they would buy up the Republic of Ingushetia, and then most likely divided into spheres of influence and divided into quasi-states constantly at war with each other.
  11. dump22
    dump22 2 August 2023 11: 31
    +3
    Neither Germany nor Russia lost the war.


    Hitler's old "stab in the back" thesis?
    1. Sergey Zilinsky
      Sergey Zilinsky 2 August 2023 12: 20
      +5
      Not Hitler, much earlier - Ludendorff and Hindenburg.
      1. dump22
        dump22 2 August 2023 15: 17
        +2
        Ludendorff and Hindenburg.


        Formally you are right.
        Hindenburg really wanted to be judged in 1919, and then he made a speech at the Reichstag commission, where this thesis was sounded - that allegedly Germany could really win in 1918 if it were not for the "shelters" in the rear.
        Ludendorff generally fled to Sweden and from there wrote a book of justification (Meine Kriegserinnerungen) that "Germany waged an exclusively defensive war, the Entente started the war in order to destroy the German state, and Christians, Jews and Freemasons are to blame for all world problems." Then he returned and even took part in the Beer Putsch.

        But it was not Hindenburg or Ludendorff who built his political career on this thesis, but Hitler.
  12. Nina Smirnova
    Nina Smirnova 2 August 2023 11: 58
    +6
    Well, as it were, yes, the basis of capitalism and the endless growth of the economy is new markets for finished products. And stolen gold and silver causes hyper inflation.
  13. Alexander Odintsov
    Alexander Odintsov 2 August 2023 12: 09
    +2
    Great stuff! Another important moment in the formation of capitalism and the West was played by Catholicism. With them, if you are rich, then you are blessed from above. Hence, a completely different morality and morality in comparison with the Russians.
    1. dump22
      dump22 2 August 2023 15: 35
      +5
      Catholicism. With them, if you are rich, then you are blessed from above.


      This is actually not a Catholic, but a Protestant thesis. This is their doctrine of predestination and the concept of calling.

      Hence, a completely different morality and morality compared to Russian


      Since the beginning of the 18th century, Russian Old Believers actively developed the idea of ​​the God-givenness of wealth. Therefore, among the successful merchants and industrialists there were so many Old Believers.
      1. decimalegio
        decimalegio 2 August 2023 20: 12
        +5
        I'm happy to find someone who knows the difference between Catholicism and Protestantism. However, it must be clarified that Christianity is not a "pauperist" religion at all, making the ideal of poverty the reason for its being and existence. Nothing is further from the will of the Lord. Wealth is thus a way of salvation if it is used for the poor, and not for the selfish satisfaction of one's whims. In the parable of the talents, Jesus praises those who know how to manage money well and make it pay off, while he has words of rebuke for those who are limited only to keeping them. Saint Augustine said: "Wealth is not bad, but those who misuse wealth are bad."
    2. glestwid
      glestwid 2 August 2023 16: 54
      +1
      You would have learned the history of religion before writing garbage about God's chosen wealth in Catholicism
  14. glestwid
    glestwid 2 August 2023 16: 49
    +4
    I hesitate to ask, what civilizations did not live by robbery?
    1. Mikhail Krivopalov
      Mikhail Krivopalov 2 August 2023 18: 31
      -3
      Those to which each individual belongs, who considers his state to be special, the most peaceful and apparently expanding its borders with the power of kindness
  15. Andrei from Chelyabinsk
    Andrei from Chelyabinsk 2 August 2023 17: 24
    +8
    Samsonov in his repertoire, alas. It's too lazy to even refute.
    So, again, the general idea is correct. Russia, expanding, in fact, did not even assimilate, but united the peoples, giving them all the rights of citizens of the Russian Empire, their aristocracy remained such (how many were Tatar, and Georgian, etc., etc. princes), but most importantly - having become part of the Empire, the people did not lose their national identity, as, for example, happens in the USA. That is, the same Tatars, having moved to the USA, after 2 generations become Americans, while the Tatars in the Russian Empire (and further - the USSR and the Russian Federation) remain Tatars.
    At the same time, European and American expansions clearly divided people into 2 classes - for example, the British and ... everyone else, the Indians there, the New Zealanders and so on.
    But the success of Europeans and Americans is only marginally due to such actions. The same England "grew up" not on the oppression of the Indians, but on the control of international trade (navy, ownership of the sea, yes) and, as a result of this, on the early accumulation of capital and the industrial revolution. And yes, whoever makes scary eyes there, claiming that the role of the oppressed Negroes and Hindus in Russia was played by serfs ... look at what was happening in blessed England at that time.
    But alas, while other countries (yes, the same Germany, where industrialization was relatively mild) developed, we were stuck in the role of a raw material appendage of the West - exchanging grain / bread for industrial products. For this, one must say "thank you" to our aristocracy, which did not want innovations - and even the autocratic kings did not have enough resources to "move" it in the right direction.
    So do not blame everything solely on the plunder of non-European peoples. An example is the same Germany. Despite a much later political unification (than Russia) and with the almost complete absence of overseas colonies, Germany still managed to advance along the path of industrialization much earlier and further than us, becoming both richer and stronger than the Russian Empire.
    And, of course, the author does not understand that the interests of the newly formed German Empire intersected very little with the interests of the Russian Empire. We could never become allies, because in order to achieve its goals, Germany needed to unconditionally dominate Europe, which was completely not in the interests of Russia.
    1. Mikhail Krivopalov
      Mikhail Krivopalov 2 August 2023 18: 37
      -4
      Yeah, that's why, having become part of the Russian Empire, local residents immediately received the "stigma" of a foreigner, or a non-Christian, and could not hold posts without converting to Orthodoxy! And why are they citing as an example that the affiliated elites enjoyed privileges close to the privileges of the Russian elites, but do not see point-blank that the common population fell into the same almost slavish conditions in which the Russian people themselves were? In the same Little Russia, having annexed it, the peasants were quickly driven into serfdom. Do not forget that in Russia it was a feudal society where nationality is not important, but who you serve is important, and in the West there was already young capitalism with its nation states.
      1. Andrei from Chelyabinsk
        Andrei from Chelyabinsk 2 August 2023 19: 06
        +7
        Quote: Mikhail Krivopalov
        Yeah, that's why, having become part of the Russian Empire, local residents immediately received the "stigma" of a foreigner, or a non-Christian, and could not hold positions without converting to Orthodoxy!

        What "Speed-info" did you study history on, my dear?
        Quote: Mikhail Krivopalov
        why they cite as an example that the affiliated elites enjoyed privileges close to the privileges of the Russian elites, but they don’t see point-blank that the common population fell into the same almost slavish conditions in which the Russian people themselves were?

        For those who can't read, I'll repeat
        Quote: Andrey from Chelyabinsk
        And yes, whoever makes scary eyes there, claiming that the role of the oppressed Negroes and Hindus in Russia was played by serfs ... look at what was happening in blessed England at that time.

        Remind me of "fencing"? Remind me, the wonderful life of the common people of Britain at the beginning of the 20th century?

        2 pence - and sleep on a rope, but to get at least such a coffin

        4 pence needed already ....
        In general, before moaning about slave-owning mores in Russia, look at how ordinary people lived in other countries. Then it may come that the situation of the common people IN ANY COUNTRY OF THE YEARS, to put it mildly, left much to be desired
    2. Stirbjorn
      Stirbjorn 2 August 2023 20: 41
      -1
      Quote: Andrey from Chelyabinsk
      That is, the same Tatars, having moved to the USA, after 2 generations become Americans
      I do not agree with this thesis. hi In the US, many are tied to their roots. You can recall the Irish (during the Civil War, they fielded entire brigades, both the Yankees and the Dixies. The Sicilian mafia. The Russians on Brighton Beach, or the Polish triangle in Chicago. There are many examples, specifically in the USA
      1. Andrei from Chelyabinsk
        Andrei from Chelyabinsk 2 August 2023 23: 03
        +5
        Quote: Stirbjorn
        I do not agree with this thesis hi In the US, many are tied to their roots.

        Michael, good night!
        And yet what I said is the place to be. The United States is a real pipeline for "Americanization" of its new citizens. Of course, remembering your national identity is not forbidden. National formations, like those that you have listed, are not prohibited either. But in relation to the general population of the USA, this is a drop in the ocean, and by and large serves as a "gateway" for the adaptation of immigrants from the respective countries - when they get to the USA, they can start in the circle of their fellow countrymen.
    3. Jonny_Su
      Jonny_Su 6 August 2023 10: 33
      0
      In the Republic of Ingushetia, too, it was different, for example, the destruction of the Circassians and the robbery of the Siberian and Far Eastern peoples by the Cossacks in pursuit of yasak. In general, not only "peacefully united."
  16. bandabas
    bandabas 2 August 2023 20: 32
    +3
    Article at the level of a student of the 3rd grade. "How I spent the summer." Just to write, and get the loot for the lines.
  17. Alexander Tkachenko
    Alexander Tkachenko 2 August 2023 23: 27
    +1
    I largely agree, yes.
    But a lot of things are far-fetched, on which they are also trying to hang "noodles".
    History should not only be taught at school according to the USE program, but also studied independently. And most importantly - be able to think!
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  19. 224VP_MO_RF
    224VP_MO_RF 3 August 2023 13: 34
    -1
    All this does not apply to the Western world, but to capitalism in general, the author is trying to divert, this is disgusting
    1. Jonny_Su
      Jonny_Su 6 August 2023 10: 28
      +1
      Let's not forget that capitalism built railways, mobile communications, and now it is forcing all earthlings a way into space.
  20. bravo77
    bravo77 3 August 2023 16: 50
    +3
    Quote: Mikhail Krivopalov
    And Russia is so big because it was the most peaceful? We will not dig into the depths, but take at least the beginning of the XNUMXth century, because of what the Russo-Japanese war began, not because of the fact that Korea was divided? And when Russian troops, together with Western troops, staged a punitive expedition and captured Beijing in order to suppress the people's liberation uprising in China? ... That's when each of you thinks that other countries historically have blood on their hands up to their ears, and their own history is white and fluffy, remember that in England, the USA, Germany, Japan, etc., the same patriots of their countries sit and consider her country is exceptionally white and fluffy, bringing only everything good to the world, while her neighbors spoiled her throughout history.


    exactly
    still wanted to build schools in Alaska and Russian America did not have time to build laughing

    I also love it when compassionate history buffs and haters of the West worry about the plight of the colonies
    forgetting how in Russia itself a smaller part of the people parasitized on another
    subjecting her to sadistic exploitation and humiliation, essentially turning the people into slaves.

    tell me in which country in Europe peasants were exchanged for greyhounds, beaten to death for trifles, families were separated.

    Why did Ree have a colony if the country itself was de facto in a relationship between planters and slaves.
    1. Chief Officer Lom
      Chief Officer Lom 3 August 2023 19: 54
      +2
      With regard to the Russian peasants - absolutely true. Moreover, it went from better to worse, and the more European and "enlightened" the tsar-emperor was, the fewer duties the Russian nobles became and the more serfdom turned into slavery, which initially did not exist (who doubts and is too lazy to study the history of serfdom, just look for the meaning of the proverb - here's your grandmother and St. George's day!). This is also our uniqueness. Remember if the Tatars, Chukchi, Kalmyks, Finns, Tajiks, etc. were serfs? We simply did not interfere in internal affairs, ensuring the security of the borders and freedom of trade. Where the population was free - remained free, who was a slave of the local feudal lord - they remained. They did not touch culture, religion, or property, if it did not have military significance.
  21. Scaffold
    Scaffold 4 August 2023 00: 18
    0
    Is the author 15 years old? Analytics somewhere on this level.
  22. Jonny_Su
    Jonny_Su 6 August 2023 10: 26
    -2
    Alexander sometimes spills some kind of dashing stupidity. This happens when a person emotionally writes about a subject with which they are not familiar.
    In contrast, I will say that this very "Western civilization" gave us science in the modern sense, industrial production, medicine as a scientific method, trade unions and the labor movement, capital and ways to accumulate it for effective projects, space as an accessible space, separation of powers and the involvement of citizens in public policy, human rights and rational thinking.
    This would not have been possible without the creative work of millions of people. This is the basis of the well-being of Western civilization, and not "parasitism". However, the title is clickbait, and it works.
  23. Chief Officer Lom
    Chief Officer Lom 6 August 2023 13: 56
    +1
    Quote: Jonny_Su
    "Western civilization" gave us science in the modern sense, industrial production, medicine as a scientific method...

    The merits of the "West" are undoubted in this, but their monopoly is based on the destruction or suppression of the development of everyone else (they still do not hesitate to pursue a policy of "containment", and 100 or more years ago they behaved like Nazis outside the boundaries of the "civilized world" in Russia). At the origins of modern scientific medicine, for example, was the Persian Avicenna, and the current mathematics grew out of Arabic, I can’t say about Roman mathematics and where it went, but in the proclaimed “shining city on a hill” of the ancient world of Ancient Greece, in places it looked more like numerology (although in the development of geometry, her merits are undoubted, but in many ways they simply rethought the Egyptians, whose names, of course, have not come down to us). Who was "Europe" when the great ancient civilizations existed and developed? And what she became, she owes mainly to the fact that they were the first to guess "correctly" to use Chinese gunpowder and no one was given time to catch up in this direction. Europe of the Middle Ages and earlier was just a poop against the backdrop of the developed countries of that world. And it is no coincidence that the history of these countries is taught only in the ancient world, and their next mention is already as colonies after the 16th - 17th centuries.
    As far as trade unions and everything else, how much do you know about ancient China for example? (And this is just what you can find out if you wish, most of the written sources of other civilizations were simply burned by "art historians in cassocks")
    1. Jonny_Su
      Jonny_Su 8 August 2023 09: 17
      0
      If we talk about the new time, as the start of precisely "Western superiority", then it just relied on the competition of small states, the achievements of metallurgy and manufacturing, chemistry and science. The 16th century is Descartes, Galileo, Bacon, Magellan and Columbus, total superiority in shipbuilding, navigation, military affairs, engineering over other civilizations of the Earth. They were relatively small and lost to China, the Ottomans or the Indians due to the concentration of resources, they were not yet engaged in enslavement, but they showed the highest efficiency. And yes, they realized their advantage by giving the world an industrial (and then post-industrial) culture. People knew how to work. Samsonov's schematosis (robbery! robbery!) cannot explain this.
  24. TORERO_1
    TORERO_1 9 August 2023 08: 30
    0
    Who is the West then? Those who managed to "taste" the sweetness of the robbery of the colonies? If you take it by country, then Germany wanted to be a colonizer as well as the rest (Spain, Portaagvvliya ...). That's why they invaded the USSR.
  25. AB
    AB 6 September 2023 13: 14
    0
    Empires weakened by the world war were destroyed from the inside with the help of revolutions. Neither Germany nor Russia lost the war. The West prepared and nurtured the fifth column, the professional revolutionaries.

    Author, have you tried to think with your head at least once? The revolutionaries just took and shook the empire, oga. If it were so simple, the regimes would roam for fun, two or three times a year.

    Russia was dragged into an unnecessary war for us.

    The author, do you want to reveal the question in more detail: how did the empire get dragged into the war? I think no. For almost immediately, moments will be revealed about the horrors of the life of the population of tsarist Russia, which literally forced people to revolt. But no. The author appointed extreme revolutionaries, who, apparently, without exception, underwent special training in camps in Germany, and then with millions of tons of gold were sent to the Central Republic, to shake the regime.

    About India. I have met the opinions of some people, like historians, who give figures a little more than a couple of tens of millions of people lost from the Anglo-Saxon yoke. Sometimes the numbers reached up to a billion victims.
    1. Cheerock
      Cheerock 6 September 2023 15: 40
      0
      There was a lot of things there until the moment of the uprising, because of which Germany happily declared war on the Republic of Ingushetia as soon as a reason arose. Thesis: Russian and German - brothers forever does not withstand any criticism. Germany needed colonies in the same way, and she fiercely fought for them and bargained with the Anglo-Saxons.
  26. Cheerock
    Cheerock 6 September 2023 15: 36
    0
    "Russia was dragged into a war we didn't need. The Russians and the Germans had nothing to share." - Germany joyfully and enthusiastically declared war on the Republic of Ingushetia on a completely formal occasion, and this is a fact. The Germans wanted to fight for a long time. And by 1914 there was a lot to divide the Republic of Ingushetia and Germany: from influence in Turkey in the struggle for the straits to influence on the Slavic countries in the Balkans. Actually, it started from the Balkans.