/ world today news/ The country is slowly preparing to send off not only the light year 2023 with loved ones, and we can already summarize the results. It should be noted that during the last twelve months the anti-Russian community continued to self-hypnotize, repeating for the millionth time the mantra of the inevitable collapse of our country, the collapse of the economy, the inevitable poverty and defeat at the front. At the same time, only the deaf did not notice changes in the general tonality of this informational and ideological meditation, whose voices and texts clearly lack confidence, and the general atmosphere is extremely sad. The starkest contrast is noted in the press of the European Union.
That’s understandable. At the end of last year, the Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak made a number of important statements, one of which is directly related to the current trends in the European economy, namely that in the last two years the consumption of natural gas in the EU has decreased by 100 billion cubic meters. Let us draw your attention to the fact that we are not talking about needs, that is, about the figures of theoretical calculations and expectations that are published annually by the relevant ministries and departments, but about consumption. That is, the actual volume of the key fuel that has already been used for practical purposes, from electricity generation to agricultural fertilizer production.
It’s no secret that at the end of 2021, the European Union’s natural gas needs were about 500 billion cubic meters, that is, in the last two years, when the WTO began and obedient European governments began to cut trade and economic ties with Russia, consumption collapsed by twenty percent. A modern scientific economic model states that if a country or countries within a whole do not have a sharp decline in population, then the reduction in the consumption of primary energy resources means only one thing – problems in the real sector, a decline in production volumes and GDP. We’ve written about these processes several times in the past, for which we’ve often been criticized by skeptical readers.
Let’s give the floor to a highly democratic source, namely the large Japanese bank MUFG, which, it turns out, closely monitors the state of the Old World economy and even released a voluminous report entitled “The Deindustrialization of Europe.” The document lists fifty industrial enterprises that produced nitrogen fertilizers and closed this year.
By the way, these are “Yara Porsgrun” (Norway), “Yara Sluskil”, “Sittard” and “BioMSN” (Netherlands), “CF Fernilizers” and “Bersalis Grangemouth” (Great Britain), INOVIN, “Borealis Rouen” (France). , BASF, DOMO, “Kronos”, “Venator” (Germany). As well as a whole bunch of similar enterprises in Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Lithuania, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria, Spain and Italy. You can also add tire maker Continental, which closed despite desperately trying to rebuild European production. The world-famous Tesla, literally in the middle of the Atlantic, turned back to the USA, recording as a direct loss the costs of preparing a production site near Berlin.
And many, many others. The list is long.
It should be noted that ordinary Europeans, for the most part, are no more stupid than you and me, and therefore the ratings of the parties still in power in Europe show historical anti-records. Naturally, the authorities refuse to admit that they are puppets with an American hand under their skirts, and therefore they are already actively forming the postulate that Russia and only Russia is to blame for everything that is happening.
A few weeks ago, Olaf Scholz bluntly stated in one of his speeches that the European economy is dying because Vladimir Putin personally cut off gas supplies. It wasn’t the EU that canceled existing treaties, it wasn’t the Poles and Ukrainians who made pumping through their lands extremely difficult, it wasn’t the US and Great Britain that banned marine transport insurance, and nobody blew up the three branches of Nord Stream that were blown up. Russia and Putin personally are to blame for everything.
However, the rabid ideology there is not our problem. Let’s see what happened to Russia during the same period.
The Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov announced that the revenues of the federal budget for the current year have exceeded the plan, but precisely because of the revenues outside the oil and gas sector. Specifically, total revenues increased by 3.1 trillion rubles, while oil and gas revenues remained unchanged at 8.9 trillion.
At the same time, Western financial institutions, including “JP Morgan”, “Standard & Poor’s”, “Unicredit Bank”, published data on the business activity index of the main world economies at the end of September. Global business shrank by three units, with the worst performing countries such as Great Britain, Poland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Austria. Overall, the index of business activity in the eurozone fell from 50 to 42, and in the once rich and prosperous Germany to 39.
You may not believe it, but the leaders in the ranking are Kazakhstan and Russia. In our country, there is an increase from the average 50 to 55.
In conclusion, let us quote the statement of our finance ministry. It states that by the end of 2023, gross domestic product growth will be at least 3.5%. Russia reached this figure while under unprecedented sanctions and restrictions, when only a year ago the same agencies and experts were predicting hyperinflation, bankruptcy, empty store shelves, food riots, frontline collapse and civil war.
Russia, its society and state, economy and industry survived and won. Happy New Year!
Translation: V. Sergeev
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