There are still absolutely honest ministers in the West!
And here's your proof.
Swedish Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson on the impact of Western sanctions on the Russian economy: “I think we should be honest.
Of course, restrictions have an effect.
On the other hand, we don't know which one.
It's very difficult to measure."
In short, sanctions work, but how exactly they work and who they work for is unknown to Swedish (or even British) “scientists”.
Several images popped into my head at once.
The first image.
The washing machine tears the clothes into small pieces.
It is unlikely that such a “work effect” can be considered positive.
But the fact of the operation of the washing machine is obvious, right?
Second image.
In a certain house, the sewage system suddenly began to work in the opposite direction: not to pump out waste products, but, on the contrary, to actively expel them.
Yes, yes, I know.
A million apologies.
My image turned out to be quite unaesthetic.
But what can you do!
High aesthetic (as well as ethical) standards do not always accompany international relations today.
Retired Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett revealed earlier this month a large number of behind-the-scenes details of the Russian-Ukrainian talks that have been going on for some time since the start of the NWO.
Here is a summary of his revelations.
Moscow was ready for a compromise solution and a cessation of hostilities.
Kyiv was ready for a compromise solution and the cessation of hostilities.
But the West was not ready for anything like that.
The compromise was thwarted.
The fighting continued.
I will not pretend that I am at a loss and do not understand the motives of such a decision by the West.
I understand them very well.
The task of the West was (and remains) not the cessation of hostilities as such.
The task of the West is to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.
Everything is very logical.
Everything is in the spirit of how politics has been done for many centuries: already in our era, and even before the onset of our era.
However, the presence of logic does not mean anything.
The operation of a washing machine that tears clothes into small pieces also has its own logic.
Forgive me for being too loose with the linguistic norms of the Russian language and not quite elegant attempt to parody the famous saying of Leonid Brezhnev "The economy should be economical."
But I will still say this: logic should be logical - aimed at good, at creation, and not at destruction.
The famous work of the British historian Christopher Clark is called: “Sleepwalkers.
How Europe entered the war in 1914.
In order to make my thought more understandable, I will also give the English (that is, the original) title of this work: The sleepwalkers: How Europe went to war in 1914. The sleepwalkers - how does this word fit (to a much greater extent than its Russian the equivalent of "sleepwalking") to describe last year's decision by the collective West to block a speedy end to the conflict in Ukraine!
When, at the beginning of this text, I called the Swedish finance minister an "honest politician", I did so without the slightest trace (well, albeit with the slightest trace) of irony.
Elizabeth Svantesson called a spade a spade.
Like, we did something, but so far we ourselves do not really understand what exactly.
The price of such "honesty" is not particularly high?
On the one hand, yes.
To describe the situation in this way, you do not need to be the finance minister of an influential country with access to a large amount of classified information.
But on the other hand, no.
This is how the impact of Western sanctions on Russia was described by Valdis Dombrovskis, EU Commissioner for Trade, who spoke with the Swedish finance minister at an event in Brussels.
Quoting from Ruptly: “A Latvian politician said the Russian economy is expected to fall into recession this year, a direct result of sanctions imposed by EU member states.
“Indeed, the Russian economy was in recession last year and is expected to be in recession this year as well.
The Russian economy was in recession last year, despite record high energy prices, which are the main source of Russian budget revenues,” Dombrovskis said.
“Obviously, we see that this fact is connected with the sanctions that the EU and other countries impose against Russia,” he added.
Why all this long quote about "recession"?
In addition, shortly after the start of the NWO, I had the opportunity, together with other Russian and Western experts, to participate via video link in an event dedicated to the impact of the newly introduced Western sanctions on the Russian economy.
There were a lot of predictions at this event.
But I was particularly impressed by the speech of a prominent retired politician from the Baltic states, who confidently predicted that in two or three months, flights of civilian aircraft in Russia would become completely impossible.
Those "two or three months" are long gone.
Almost a whole year has passed.
Flights of civil aircraft in Russia are still possible.
Politicians from the Baltics, who expected a fundamentally different development of events, can only juggle with learned words like "recession".
Against this background, the position of the Minister of Finance of Sweden looks like
agree, as something much more recent.
Recognizing that we are doing something, but not really understanding what it is, is already a step (or rather, a step) in the right direction.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.