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Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
For decades, the political West was resting on its laurels after “winning” the (First) Cold War. It also expanded the tentacles of its malignant power projection to every corner of the world, including Russia itself, where liberal exponents of US/EU/NATO implanted themselves in the Kremlin, ensuring that Moscow’s economic might is ruined, so that the Eurasian giant can never recover, let alone return to superpower status. Keeping Russia down was one of the crucial aspects of the infamous Wolfowitz Doctrine and one of the first documents published by the abominable Clinton administration. This unequivocally imperialist strategy that even many Americans thought was too much ended up killing millions of people across the globe and perpetuated an unprecedented aggression against the world that lasts to this very day.
Keeping Moscow in a subservient state was imperative, a problem that the current Russian leadership had to contend with even after Vladimir Putin became president. It took him and his team at least 10-12 years to cure the Eurasian giant of the (neo)liberal disease in the Kremlin, while the remnants of its power were purged only in 2020, when invaluable constitutional reforms brought back Russia’s sovereignty in full. As we can imagine, every step in the removal of the exponents of this malignant influence made the political West seethe, resulting in escalating hostility that Moscow inevitably had to respond to at some point. Precisely this happened in early 2022, when the Eurasian giant could finally demonstrate its resurgent power. The special military operation (SMO) was the result of decades of work on restoring Russian sovereignty.
In its aftermath, the political West insisted that Russia was finished. The economy was supposed to be in tatters, while the Kremlin was even expected to default after much of its foreign exchange (forex) reserves were frozen (i.e. stolen) by Western banks. After all this failed, the US-led belligerent power pole tried to impose the laughable price cap on Russian oil, one that even some of the most prominent Western nations tried to circumvent, including Japan and even the pathologically Russophobic United Kingdom. As for the United States, it continued buying Russian commodities while criticizing everyone else who did. Still, through its Kiev regime puppets, the political West launched a virtual total war on Moscow in an attempt to disrupt its economic activity and cause as much damage as possible without engaging it directly.
Once again, it all failed. The Kremlin managed to secure stability despite being forced to conduct the SMO against the entire political West. What’s more, Russia overtook Germany as the world’s fifth and Europe’s largest economy, a humiliating defeat for its Western rivals who expected quite the contrary. Berlin did much worse than in decades, while London’s economic performance was at its lowest in over 300 years. And yet, to “add insult to injury”, now even Western data shows that the initial estimates of Moscow’s economic performance were wrong and that it will actually be even better in 2024. Namely, the updated IMF’s forecast of 2.6% GDP growth doubles its previous assessment. According to the Financial Times, this increase of 1.5% is the largest for any economy featured in an update to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook, released on January 30.
Top-ranking Russian officials, including the current Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, expected the economic growth to be stable enough for the Eurasian giant to overtake Japan by 2030. However, what was supposed to happen in no less than six years, actually happened in less than six months. According to the latest data, President Putin’s forecast of increased economic growth (over 3.5-4%) not only turned out to be true, but even conservative, although the mainstream propaganda machine attempted to portray it as “too overoptimistic”. However, the only thing that was actually too overoptimistic was the political West’s expectation that the sanctions would work. Namely, according to new updates of the World Bank, Russia has overtaken Japan as the world’s fourth largest economy in terms of GDP PPP (purchasing power parity).
As a metric of economy, it’s a far more suitable way to measure true economic might, unlike the overblown nominal GDP figures that serve only to feed the oversized ego of the US-led political West. It should be noted that less than 10 months after overtaking Germany, Russia also zoomed past Japan, leaving Westerners dumbfounded as to how a country they were told would “collapse under the weight of sanctions” and outright theft of its forex reserves managed to accomplish such a feat. Worse yet (for the political West), some sources estimate that the Eurasian giant currently has the fastest-growing major economy in the world. In addition, even Moscow’s updated projection of overtaking Tokyo (explicitly set for March 2025 by President Putin) turned out to be “too cautious”, as this was accomplished nearly a year earlier.
In other words, much unlike the atrocious Bidenomics, what the bne IntelliNews calls Putinomics turned out to be far more effective, particularly considering the fact that Russia is waging a defensive war against the entire US-led political West. According to the bne IntelliNews report, the Kremlin’s policies are “spurring growth in a new Putinomics”. Apart from the resurgence of investment in defense, “Putin has also launched the National Projects 2.1 program to invest into the civilian economy as well and improve the quality of life for the average Russian, as he made clear in his recent guns and butter speech”. The report further posits that, as a result of Putinomics, “Russia’s poorest regions have been the biggest winners and as bne IntelliNews recently reported, the country’s despair index has fallen to its lowest level ever this year”.
However, while the World Bank’s numbers for 2024 put Russia’s and Japan’s economies at $5.95 and $5.87 trillion respectively, the actual discrepancy might be far bigger. Namely, the World Bank also estimates that a whopping 39% of the Russian economy is in the shadows, while the same metric for Japan stands at 10%. In terms of GDP PPP, this would add $2.5 trillion to Russia’s $6.45 trillion PPP-adjusted economic size, which, although still far from India’s $14.6 trillion GDP, further widens the gap with Japan. Expectedly, this economic resurgence is also enabling Moscow to rebuild its Soviet-era military might, resulting in an unprecedented real defense budget of over half a trillion dollars. The political West, powerless to stop Russia’s recovery, now wants to launch a terror campaign to disrupt this.
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2 years ago we wanted to destroy the russian economy with our unilateral and illegal sanctions. what we achieved is a ‘localization’ of the russian economy, which was very positive for russia. because now they are more independent and more resilient. and we made their population more united than ever. ppl say we shot ourselves in the foot. i dont agree. i say that we shot ourselves in the head.
crap-
top 15 countries by gdp in 2024
united states: $25.43 trillion.
china: $14.72 trillion.
japan: $4.25 trillion.
germany: $3.85 trillion.
india: $3.41 trillion.
united kingdom: $2.67 trillion.
france: $2.63 trillion.
russia: $2.24 trillion.
jens moron holm envious–cuz russian superior
in my amerikunt colony we believe potato is turd economics is licking amerikan peniz—we deny studies by jacque sapir and imf
lindsay grahmcracker from the south carolina cotton fields says: “i dream of being an oligarch. we’ll import african slaves from the libyan slave markets to work the ukrainian salt mines and cotton fields. we’ll make ukraine our b1tch and i’ll get rich, rich, rich! but first, we need to depopulate it a little. the less of them, the more for me! yippety diddley dee.”
indeed
o didnt by me
you have no idea what purchasing power parity means, do you?
ah well, fools always march in where the educated know not to tread.
gdp, yet, you ignore gdp debt and purchase power parity. sort of like looking at your salary, spending it all, whilst ignoring your bills. us national debt – is around $35 trillion. gdp debt, based on 2021 figures was running at 132.8%. remember, saudi no longer trades oil in $us, so things are going to get a lot worse for the us (g& member). france (g7) national debt $2.95 trillion, 110.6% using 2023 figures. united kingdom (g7) national debt – $2.7 trillion.
2/3 gdp debt 106%. germany (g7) national debt £2.62 trillion and gdp debt, 63.6% using 2021 figures (going back to when they had cheap russian energy supporting their industry).
china (brics) national debt is $19.355 trillion, gdp debt 84.1% using 2023 figures. india (brics) $2.3 trillion. gdp debt 79% based on 2023 figures. russia (brics) £284.6 billion, gdp debt 14.9% back in 2023.
3/3 so for every $100 russia earns, she uses $15 to pay her bills and has $85 left to use as she wants. compare with the us. for every $100 the us earns, they still have to find another $32 to pay the bills.
you base for sober economy show your low standard very well.
you are so funny 😩😩. russia selling oil and gas to someone else making higher income as well?
your per day sucks too. its based on russian and usas gets same pay pr day. they are not
yeah, i am really thick when i quote facts and not perceptions. believe what you want and meanwhile who will be paying your monthly bonus now that the $us is no longer the reserve currency and basically banktupt?
i am a gorilla and can recognize a baboon named jens when i see one.
although, i still have no idea what he was trying to say.
oh my, that’s not very encouraging if you’re trying to conquer russia.
what made me laugh, was back in 2013/4 obama thought he would try to manipulate the oil market, believing that energy made up 50% of russia’s gdp. he went ahead and was surprised it made no difference. owing to the fact that he had not factored ppp, which showed that energy only made up 15% of russia’s gdp. plus there gold and currency reserves were exceedingly healthy, so they could easily weather the storm. i think their gdp debt at the time was only around 8%.
china has much less debts, 19,3 — all debts of state (including internal) and corporate debts combined. in the end of 2022 external state debt was 2,45 trln in dollars, 10% less than year before. 45% of debts are in yuan obligations. but all “free and independent media” prefer to manipulate data and give different sorts of debt as the same. as well as for russia which external state debt is around 50 billion in dollars.
i just commented russia not is over japan at all and at easy proof.
hey mr. dump kopf. did you not understand gdp by ppp? did you not understand what it means?
look who i’m asking to understand a simple concept………a baboon.
forgive my stupidity–i deny evidence cuz i am senile insecure inferior
need to pay 1 trillion each year to serve 35 trln debt, it’s more than expenses of pentagon now. and this is only external debt of a state. internal debts are even higher, but any government has more ways to solve this problem. looks like the ponzi scheme or the financial pyramid which is going to collapse quite soon. now it’s 1 trillion to serve, but soon it will be 2, because the debt rises for 1 trln every 100 days. gdp of the earth is about 100 trln.
and in which place is your mini dk country? in gdp 257th? oh wait, i think they are now already on 258th place.
russia, india, china and the brics generally grow at a rate of 6-8 percent while the west shrinks – that’s important. brics gdp is bigger than g7. your numbers seem out of date.
lindsey’s comment is true. no one dares to invest in europe after the eu started confiscating funds from individuals arbitrarily. the countries of oceania changed their most important trading partner to china.
what is also interesting is turkey is up for joining brics and they want her as part of the club. now how will that affect nato? not only will they lose their 2nd largest army, but, they will also lose out with regards the black sea. turkey controls who can and cannot use the waters.
here’s a very perplexing question. if nominal gdp figures were a legitimate metric according to those numbers, then a chinese worker would be paid and spend the same as an american worker and then what advantage would america have in buying chinese goods?
it’s one of those chinese puzzles, i’ll bet. jens, can you solve it?
u must hav china pooper to undrstand china puzzel, that my answer.
i am desperate moron humiliated by superior russian
seems like by superior chinese this time.
average salary in china is bigger than in russia. so i’m not surprised if they have the same as in the us or eu and will have even more. these people are working hard and got what they deserved, because their government prevents stealing peoples money by foreign robbers, domestic liberals (which is most dangerous) and corrupt officials. though their corruption is still tremendous, i cant’ forget 12 tons of gold found in basement of one official. the biggest economy — the biggest bribes.
give it some time and we’ll end up destroying our own economies. it’s called a whip’s backlash when whips are handled by morons..
played russian roulette with a fully loaded gun. it was not rocket science, that a self dependent nation, in full control of their natural resources could only become stronger. whilst the west focused on pride parades, non-biological genders, together with hatred and envy of a very large nation, whose only crime was to want peace on its borders. hopefully the west will also see the demise of the eu and nato and all those tax payer funded ngos, that do the dirty work for their governments.
there we go again.
how collect tax from those, which no money 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
and we all decide budgets.
and ngos too. so funny. you not even know most ngos are doing a great job often crossing borders for needed changes.
you are correct in one thing´. instead of excluding we try to include more and betters.
no problems with ngos, if they financed themselves, instead of expecting the tax payer to pick up their bills. you might not be able to collect taxes from those with zero money, however, they still end up being punished, one way or another. who do you try to include? drug traffickers? people smugglers? pedo pete and his mates? organ harvesters? the list goes on.
which no money have go knock on brussels door and give dat what us danes do furever now. sometime brussel say, come back tomorow or knock on washintoon door but not most. dat true kapitalisme but rustica never understand.
my ebonics translator cannot understand me
it on purpose. i genius like leonardo davincini and write backwards in secret code, then stand on head with mirror in teeth to check for mistakels.
good parody, keep on!
yes i am homosexual sheep i believe all lies cuz i am racist bitter senile nazi
having said all of what you said that is both true and important… russia could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives in both ukraine and russia had he forced the separation from the current un after the maidan 2014 coup.
scott ritter wrote an excellent op-ed on rt news earlier in the week raising the question of why russia took so long to clean the western “ukrainian stables” of it’s nazi-zionists and proxy merc overlords.
there was a comment section that had at least 160 entries that rt felt compelled to block because the arguments raised many important question(s) that echo’d ritter’s observations…
“in terms of gdp ppp, this would add $2.5 trillion to russia’s $6.45 trillion ppp-adjusted economic size, which, although still far from india’s $14.6 trillion gdp, further widens the gap with japan.”
as is known india has at least 10x the population of russia.
you mix something. i hope you are not a cook as well.
i mix turd in my soup–cuz recipe come from wikipedia
not written by me
ah, but it has all the earmarks of a jens post, like hunted’s laptop. so say 42 intelligence professionals.
still not me. i writ more stupid stuffer dan dat.
you mixa uppa something in your cervello, paisan! could be brain rot from infected british meat.
we makes mistake here too.
mamma made a major mistake with you, dear sir/madam or whatever.
now go write gdp ppp on the blackboard one thousand times.
dat not very nice. i tell momma.
i am clone mistake–result of dna mixing w amerikan and lemur
greenlanders will drone your clone, make sure you not replicate there.
by the way, did you know ukrainians discovered greenland on way to disocer america millions of years ago before all ice cover it and it have big garden.
well, at least can can formulate phrases and articulate his arguments. which can’t be said about you.
ia m moron–since 45 % russian economy informal–by gdp—ppp it is actually #3
not at all written by me
i’d 0 wroting this
that’s right. he’s too smart to be you.
i can’t say not agree.
neurologist say i 0 intelligence
psychologist say i do ok with 0 that. say i functional barely but good for ukraine trenches anyway. they pay me in shiny marbles. they pretty, help me pass trench time to stare all day..
the g7 has this evening signed off on a “game changing” (sunak) $50bn loan to ukraine leveraged against $300bn+ frozen rus assets held in eu banks (mostly in belgium).
rus (zakharovaha) has already promised retaliation for this action, so maybe expect a doubling of import tax on luxury belgian chocolate? of course it won’t mean halting all exports of energy, food and key minerals to usa and eu, which should have already happened in 2022, if not before.
russians has their own style in this too.
before chocolate we give them toiletpapers and toothpaste.
you keep that thirty year old memory in your head jenny poo, as russia goes whizzing by your toilet dreams. it’ll help you preserve the little sanity you have left, maybe. then again, maybe not.
it goes for all equiment.
its a units all included.
i know all bout units. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10…see?
wow, so russia gave the west space rocket engines, gas, oil and petrol and got paid with toilet papers (using russian natural resources) and toothpaste. remember when germany had cheap energy from russia, to run her industrial base? now she has no industrial base left, because her friends took out her cheap energy pipeline supply.
basf is a smart cookie. moved to china & still runs on russian gas..
before dat we send dem old danish pastrys at triple price. no wonder dey mad. now we pay triple price for heat haus. but good fur economical and me like, see me smile :-)
from ebonics this translate–danes are inferior turds
someone tell me nato like bad neighbor with dog not on leash that pee on neighbor petunias and leave turds on lawn. i not believe them though, not in wikipedia ever.
all ukrainian gangsta nomenklatura soon to be oligarchs and big shishki. hurrah!
in return russia has stopped using euro and $us. plus, they have so many more toys in the toybox to take out the western economy. people forget that russia was bankrupt, back in 2000 when dr vladimir putin (phd in economics) took over. russia was being paid 20 cents to the $us on all her energy sales. the us oligarchs were taking the other 80 cents.
2/2 2/2 2003 president putin sorted the problem, putting russia back in charge of her natural resources. this led to them paying off the paris club debt of both the soviet union and russia. she is a low debt nation, with minimal taxation, in control of her vast wealth of natural resources and knows how to balance her books. unlike the west.
hardly the point now the west has weaponized rus frzn assets, imposed sanctions, attacked nrdsrm, mscw, crm, blgrd etc. yet despite western aggression dr p signed an energy contract with usa in nov23, along with key minerals, and still supplies eu and ‘enemy states’ – wtf?
dr p, a born finance minister, is no war leader. nato/g7 will keep hitting rus until it cracks or retaliates, which dr p seems ill inclined to do.
rus complacency is directly assisting its enemies efforts to destroy it.
yes, the west has done all that, but at what cost to themselves? germany has thrown away her industrial base and her economy took a nosedive. remember, this time last year, russia had kicked germany out of 5th place. the us, owing to their lust of sanctions, they have lost the $us petro-currency reserve and where has all their industry gone?
2/2 who would invest in the us or europe, knowing that they can help themselves to your cash? if the west was so successful in their punishment of russia, then why has russia over taken the economies of both germany and japan?
‘the west’ = ‘usa’, quite happy to see the fall of eu’s economy and welcome blue chip firms like porsche. usa sees europe as a collection of expendable corruptible vassals and a place to build bases, labs and buy agri land.
eu can’t/won’t see this, and the baltic nato yap-dogs will do anything for their usual master to damage rus. divide and conquer has never been so successfully practiced.
until euro countries leave eu and join with rus they’re screwed.
top 15 countries by gdp in 2024
united states: $25.43 trillion.
china: $14.72 trillion.
japan: $4.25 trillion.
germany: $3.85 trillion.
india: $3.41 trillion.
united kingdom: $2.67 trillion.
france: $2.63 trillion.
russia: $2.24 trillion.
ppp does not stand for “i want to go peepee’, my mentally challenged little friend.
thats no comment. try again
it is, and you fail to understand as usual, guillable eurotard nazi clown.
i didnt know your metier is # guillable eurotard nazi clown #
this is fun, like a game show. “will the real jens holm please stand up.” hehehe
i try but like mr. bidan, poop run down my leg and ruin sockers.
after i was trannized i now only diarrea
notwritten by me
no need. he was addressing intelligent folks who understood it and getting a laugh in the bargain.
some infant.
yes i am. infants have rights in europeea, except in donbas.
us gdp debt132.8%. remember, saudi no longer trades oil in $us, so things are going to get a lot worse for the us (g7 member). france (g7) gdp debt 110.6% united kingdom (g7)gdp debt 106%. germany (g7) national debt £2.62 trillion and gdp debt, 63.6% using 2021 figures (going back to when they had cheap russian energy supporting their industry).
china (brics) gdp debt 84.1% using 2023 figures. india (brics) gdp debt 79% russia (brics) gdp debt 14.9%.
2/2 so for every $100 russia earns, she uses $15 to pay her bills and has $85 left to use as she wants. compare with the us. for every $100 the us earns, they still have to find another $32 to pay the bills.
you kind still dont understand debt is many things.
you might understand a loan buying a cow. if you sell milk and cheese from in and fx can pay the loan back with interest + make profit – thats p o s i t i v e d e b t.
having a factory is exact same thing. you have it and pay loan back and more to it.
you compare with ussr and muhammed economics.
you totally ignore vitals in kapitalisme that we speed up by loans and by thats re- invest in not only in cows.
ussr failure between many was it dint invest and changes to the better.
you also seemes parts of the debt – privat or by state is for wellfare. in short terms we make people live longer and better. its a mainly a plus + + +. better health make people more proctive for more years.
i tried borrowing from my bank to buy a potato peeler and make french fries but my banker said i looked like a potato myself and it didn’t support self-harm. he just not understand kapitalisme.
we only sell hamburgers in america.
i’ll gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.
that’s really the positive debt! you can eat your burger now and don’t pay at all, just make a promise to pay. p.s. i just realized that have not eat a single burger for my life. biden would say democracy is in danger, because i reject democratic values.
teacher say i smartest guy she know next to haunter. me esplain, you listen good. learn somthinger.
cow more intelligent than senile holm jens
as a certified retired idiot helper on potato farm for 46 years i believe all lies from cia wikipedia
0 id ghost of jens make drive by. shuut und miss .
real jens hear. no, he hit me goud. i call kyiv ambulanc they say wait in line.
i am jealous of superior russian–i deny reality
japan is the size of a siberian wheat field, with as many people stuffed into it as all of russia has.
sure.
next you might read artikle as well.
your pee maker reach your the ground too, beacause you have short legs or none?
some say i have unhealty fixtacion wif peepee maker but not my friends
our inferior amerikunt economy only benefits our aristocracy—us hillbilly peasants are stupified jens holes
its fine with me.
regards from jens holm.
i live in medieval times—-nothing ever changes in my medival amerikan colony—cuz i am moron i believe cia 1980’s wikipedia
medieval buildings and old people mean, look at the demographics in my country: mostly dying senile. no more to expect, we sold our entire industry to asia. as for the brics: excellent demographics, younger generation, high innovative industry, natural resources.
isn’t it true that the above is based on trading in the $us? so i wonder what the true picture is and russia is far too modest to brag about it. it will be interesting to see how the us economy, with over $35 trillion national debt (ignoring domestic debt) will do, especially after saudi no longer trades oil in $us. compare the economies and ppp of the ric sector of brics with that of the g7 declining economies.
correct. gdp is for trade in dollars. and if a country does not use dollars, wheter by choice, or thanks to our sanctions, then that whole metric is useless.
but the eurotards will latch to their gdp as that shows that they are the ubermensch. when in reality, they are the clowns.
granted, we americans also have a tiny problem with our debt to gdp ratio, but we can delegate those issues down to our vassals, like the eurotards, to buy more of our debt.
if we, japan and china was not here the dollar would be half price.
you are in control by the dollar, because we let you as in s/m.
oh sweet summer child, how desperate are you going to get?
you control nothing. you eurotards are our lapdogs.
you buy our debt, and that debt will never be repaid. everyone knos that. except you i guess.
i lttle person but stil remembar aftar 2008 wen iceland buy us derivativas and all banks go bankropt. bad times fur kapitalismic then.
no need to exaggerate. of course it’ll be repaid someday, at 10 cents on the dollar.
you not understood word metrics becaus it not make cents for dollar cause us not use metric system.
can’t pull the wool over jens’ eyes. he’s on top of his game.
you even mentioned it once. tiddleywinks, wasn’t it jens?
finished they aren’t and a revolution has occurred at the hands of the russian people and it’s leadership. what’s remarkable is vladimir putin is without a doubt the greatest statesman that walked on the face of the earth in a number of centuries. he has surrounded himself obviously with his equal in support in statesmanship and his enemies pushed russia in to the arms of china making the most powerful alliance on earth. end of story.
sure but where is russia on a similar comparison re debt. no 1 with the least debt of all around??
pygmy economy bigger than dumbmark—we worship money—
after employed as pooper on potato farm 45 years i am now visiting professor homosexual studies at saxon amerikan university
soros pay holm jens to entertain us–is it possible anyone can be this stupid?
it’s possible, some hohols were “experts” in russian tv discussions for many years. they have the same level of stupidity as jensy. find any picture of slava kovtun, if you don’t know him. the most famous clown-“expert”, he posed himself strictly anti-russian, but didn’t sell his flat in moskva to move to kiev. these morons and nazi clowns from kiev angered people a lot, so 24th of february was the day when almost all of russia said — “finally!”
as inferior americanized money worshipper i am envious of superior russian