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baykalov

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Strong anti-colonial feelings arising in the global south.

From Putin's speech two days ago, I quote only a small part, I will link to the full text:

The West is ready to cross every line to preserve the neo-colonial system which allows it to live off the world, to plunder it thanks to the domination of the dollar and technology, to collect an actual tribute from humanity, to extract its primary source of unearned prosperity, the rent paid to the hegemon. The preservation of this annuity is their main, real and absolutely self-serving motivation. This is why total de-sovereignisation is in their interest. This explains their aggression towards independent states, traditional values and authentic cultures, their attempts to undermine international and integration processes, new global currencies and technological development centres they cannot control. It is critically important for them to force all countries to surrender their sovereignty to the United States.

In certain countries, the ruling elites voluntarily agree to do this, voluntarily agree to become vassals; others are bribed or intimidated. And if this does not work, they destroy entire states, leaving behind humanitarian disasters, devastation, ruins, millions of wrecked and mangled human lives, terrorist enclaves, social disaster zones, protectorates, colonies and semi-colonies. They don't care. All they care about is their own benefit.

I want to underscore again that their insatiability and determination to preserve their unfettered dominance are the real causes of the hybrid war that the collective West is waging against Russia. They do not want us to be free; they want us to be a colony. They do not want equal cooperation; they want to loot. They do not want to see us a free society, but a mass of soulless slaves.

It was the so-called West that trampled on the principle of the inviolability of borders, and now it is deciding, at its own discretion, who has the right to self-determination and who does not, who is unworthy of it. It is unclear what their decisions are based on or who gave them the right to decide in the first place. They just assumed it.

And all we hear is, the West is insisting on a rules-based order. Where did that come from anyway? Who has ever seen these rules? Who agreed or approved them? Listen, this is just a lot of nonsense, utter deceit, double standards, or even triple standards! They must think we’re stupid.

Western elites not only deny national sovereignty and international law. Their hegemony has pronounced features of totalitarianism, despotism and apartheid. They brazenly divide the world into their vassals – the so-called civilised countries – and all the rest, who, according to the designs of today's Western racists, should be added to the list of barbarians and savages. False labels like “rogue country” or “authoritarian regime” are already available, and are used to stigmatise entire nations and states, which is nothing new. There is nothing new in this: deep down, the Western elites have remained the same colonisers. They discriminate and divide peoples into the top tier and the rest.

We have never agreed to and will never agree to such political nationalism and racism. What else, if not racism, is the Russophobia being spread around the world? What, if not racism, is the West’s dogmatic conviction that its civilisation and neoliberal culture is an indisputable model for the entire world to follow? “You’re either with us or against us.” It even sounds strange.

Western elites are even shifting repentance for their own historical crimes on everyone else, demanding that the citizens of their countries and other peoples confess to things they have nothing to do with at all, for example, the period of colonial conquests.

It is worth reminding the West that it began its colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, followed by the worldwide slave trade, the genocide of Indian tribes in America, the plunder of India and Africa, the wars of England and France against China, as a result of which it was forced to open its ports to the opium trade. What they did was get entire nations hooked on drugs and purposefully exterminated entire ethnic groups for the sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting people like animals. This is contrary to human nature, truth, freedom and justice.

While we – we are proud that in the 20th century our country led the anti-colonial movement, which opened up opportunities for many peoples around the world to make progress, reduce poverty and inequality, and defeat hunger and disease.

Below is the full text of Vladimir Putin’s speech, published by the Kremlin’s official website:

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FairAndUnbiased

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From Putin's speech two days ago, I quote only a small part, I will link to the full text:



Below is the full text of Vladimir Putin’s speech, published by the Kremlin’s official website:

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Putin has to put force behind his words, but he has a point. Just ask yourself 2 simple questions:

1. Did the difference between poor, middle and rich countries increase or decrease after the end of the Cold War?

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2. How many countries were low income prior to WW2 and high income today?

Only 3: Singapore and South Korea, China by end of this year.

Meanwhile multiple countries devolved away from high income to middle or from middle to poor: Equatorial Guinea, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia, Argentina, Libya, Iraq.
 

MixedReality

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From Putin's speech two days ago, I quote only a small part, I will link to the full text:



Below is the full text of Vladimir Putin’s speech, published by the Kremlin’s official website:

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This was a historic speech. He talked about the big picture for the world. More comprehensive than his 2007 Munich speech. This speech was him saying ‘enough is enough’ and we will fight back against the Western neo-colonial system.
 

pmc

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Meanwhile multiple countries devolved away from high income to middle or from middle to poor: Equatorial Guinea, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia, Argentina, Libya, Iraq.
Russia is still high income by most measures if you consider real disposable income not South Korea type debt level.
Moscow is in top 5 with E delivery services. meaning its government has high skilled employees and infrastructure that can deliver the services. This despite Putin moving departments to Saint Petersburg and he himself meeting most of time in Sochi.
I cannot estimate how much is real per capita income of cities in Southern Military district but the vehicles driving there will not be out of place in some of the highest per capita income cities.

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The 2022 edition of the LOSI study is the first one to incorporate an assessment of e-government in the most populous city in each of the 193 Member States. Table 3.1 lists the cities in the very high category based on an analysis of 86 indicators (see annex I). Madrid and Berlin are ranked first, with nearly 98 per cent of the features assessed, followed by Tallinn and Copenhagen. Fifth place is shared by Dubai, Moscow, New York City and Paris, with Singapore and Shanghai ninth and tenth
 
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