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I am a Russian who realized this idea many years ago and have been living like this ever since. Now you can try to statistically calculate how many of us there are, maybe not so many, but we exist.
Russians are interested parties in their own country. This analysis explores the collective responsibility of the Russian people, not just their leadership. If leaders change according to history, Russia's basic geopolitical and economic ideas do not change radically for the better. Russians should be responsible for their own country, which is linked to economic poverty and geopolitical upheavals that determine the current state of the country. This conclusion refutes the notion that responsibility lies solely with the elites, emphasizing the involvement of ordinary citizens in supporting or tolerating policies and actions that have led to widespread instability and global distrust. Examining historical patterns, social behavior, and cultural dynamics, one can conclude that this argument requires a reassessment of national responsibility and the moral obligations of Russian society as a whole to implement meaningful changes. This has nothing to do with biology, but rather with the current collective unconscious and the history of Russia. If we want all citizens to be equal and free, then we need to be realistic about who is responsible for what is happening. By doing this, taking genuine responsibility for the actions of the country, it is possible to achieve real positive changes for the benefit of humanity, to create a global ethic of moral responsibility.
In this post, I want to talk about who is responsible for poverty, economic poverty in Russia, and the current situation. I think there is a deep-seated belief among people in the West that there are people in power in Russia who, if they could change, would improve relations with Russia, could start negotiations and conclude a peace agreement with Russia. Then relations could improve and business could continue, but is it true that the Russian people themselves are responsible for Russia's economic poverty? Let's try to confirm this. Russia is poor by any standard. If you go to macroeconomic data, if you go to microeconomic data, if you look at the exchange rate, interest rate, or just go to Google Maps or Yandex Maps and view in any city in Russia, poor as it looks. Russia is a poor and impoverished country. This is a very poor place, in this country there are tin roofs, in this country there are hardly paved roads, mostly dirt roads, in many places there is no running water, everything looks as if people live in the last century. This is one of the poorest countries, there is huge pollution - open and look at the pollution map, and even in Siberia you will see huge pollution, unhealthy levels, this is only a small fraction of what you can see, these are air pollutants and particulate matter, not just water and other things that are in homes and the materials used to build these houses, the lead content in the pipes, the terrible economic situation, and the only people responsible for this are Russians. And I'm not talking about genetics, I'm talking about modern culture. Genetically, we are all similar, like any other Slavic people or Indo-European people, or any other people in the world, we are all one, we are all equal, we are all, in the end, 100% equal in total. But the trends, mentality and consciousness of Russians - that's the catch. These people deny their own responsibility. "Oh, they're just leaders!", "Oh, if it weren't for the leaders!", "We're just little people!", "We can't do anything!", "We'll protest and get arrested!". You know, it's all bullshit. And my statements are based on the following factors: The size of the country.; Based on a real view of the country from the point of view of centralization and decentralization through the mentality of Russians.
Let's take a look at the opinion that Russia should be big, it should be strong. But this is not true, because the smallest countries in the world are often the richest, whether it's Singapore, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland - all these tiny countries, these micro-countries tend to be rich. And then you can say, well, you know, what about the USA and Canada? OK, but Russia is the largest and probably one of the poorest, if I'm not mistaken, practically one of the poorest in the whole world. You can also say this about India or China. So big does not mean that it is strong and rich. But the first thing that Russian thinking says is that the bigger the country, the more it expands, the bigger Russia will be and the richer the Russian people will be, and this is not true. And that's why it looks ridiculous to conscious people when the newly minted president of the United States talks about the annexation of Greenland, about how great it would be to annex Greenland, which will belong to America and all the snow of Greenland will belong to the United States. For conscious people, such words look shameful and ridiculous. The idea that the best country is a big country is wrong. The greatest countries in the world, some of which are the richest, be it Sweden, Poland, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Switzerland is the smallest and richest country. And Japan has one of the highest life expectancy rates. Russia can be said to be so big, but it has the lowest life expectancy in the world, the highest rate of HIV infections, and the highest rate of alcoholism. And the nightmare is that 80% of Russian people living in Russia accept and support the idea of the Moscow Tsar that the more the better, and that is why we must expand and create an empire. Someone might say, but you know, it's all the idea of NATO and all that. And this is a ridiculous statement that the Tsar of Russia learned from a guy named Adolf from Germany in the 1940s, because the same argument was used, you can refer to books and reference books on history, there was the same language, and the Russian people support the same idea of expansion, and the evidence is that They give their lives on the front line. And if people didn't support the idea of a "big country," they wouldn't give their lives for it. Therefore, some run away or are thrown into prison, while the majority go to the front line or promote the idea of "the more, the better."
The view that Centralization is better when there is a strong leader, people feel that they should have a strong leader, people don't want a weak leader, the best countries in the world have strong leaders, and the more decentralized a country is, the weaker its leadership. Well, for example, Switzerland has the most decentralized government, and it is probably the richest country in the world. Arguments can be made in favor of the United States and Canada, as they are very decentralized compared to Russia. China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are all centralized countries, and as we can see, strong leaders impoverish people. This idea of a strong leader is in the collective unconscious of Russia. Does Russian thinking really need this fatherly figure? The human race replaced the Greek gods with one God because humans have evolved, because humans have the ability to ascend to the truth. It's like the tragedy of Hamlet, which is not that Hamlet dies, but that he dies at the moment when he is about to achieve Greatness. And humanity can achieve Greatness. In the process of evolution, conscious humanity has rejected the idea that we have a god, someone supernatural. I believe in God as the Ultimate Reality. But not a leader who believes that people are pack animals, that we need to be led, and we need to have a strong leader, which is ingrained in the Russian mentality. A strong leader and a big country are the opposites of what is needed for economic prosperity. Most people just want to wander around the grocery store, not knowing what kind of spaghetti sauce to buy, and then go home, they just want to be left alone, this is paradise. These are the usual moments when people don't tell you what to do. This is the decentralized economy. This is the Austrian economy, this is the Swedish economy, this is microeconomics, these are macroeconomic agents who determine for themselves at the state level, at the regional level, how to live their lives. I don't want my neighbor to live my life. I don't want bureaucrats telling me how I should live. But most of Russia is made up of people with a collective unconscious, they say they are small people, they cannot change what the government is going to do, it is the government's fault. And this is a trap that Russians fall into. If someone thinks that this current leader will leave, there will be better leadership in Russia, no, there will be no better leadership, this is the mentality of Russians, which Russians themselves cannot change. Imagine if the current Tsar of Russia were the leader in a European country, what would public opinion polls show? Think of Germany in the 1930s and 40s, where the rebels resisted to the last man, they were freedom-loving people. And what is happening in Russia now is primarily the responsibility of the Russian people. You can achieve a lot even peacefully, for example, by not showing up at work, going on sick leave, you know, when people go on strike, they don't come to work. In a European country, this may happen, but, for example, in India - no, they will pray and fast there. If the Russians had said, "Okay, as soon as Christmas is over and before Easter I will work at a rate of 5%," it would have stopped the Russian economy tomorrow. If most Russians would say that, no one would have to be fired. After all, the government can't arrest the whole country. So the reason Russia is one of the poorest countries by all standards is that Russians have bought into the idea that they don't have a strong leader and that they need a strong leader. And if you see yourself as a speck of dust floating in the universe, then that's exactly what life will give you. But if you see yourself as great, you can make changes in this country. Therefore, when the West tries to negotiate with Moscow and hopes that regime change will happen and this will solve Russia's problem, it will not solve Russia's problem, Russia will exist for another 500 years, being Russia continuing expansion and propagandizing the ideals of a large country - this is the Russian people.
Singapore is a country without mines, natural resources, and vast agricultural territories... and at the same time one of the richest countries in the world. The Singapore passport is the most accepted in the world. Singapore's prosperity is based on trade. Affordable higher education and low levels of corruption.
Nevertheless, what is mentioned in the publication in relation to Russia applies to other countries as well. Hungary as an example. The townspeople live the same way they did more than 50 years ago. They accuse everyone except their own stupidity of supporting a kleptocratic government.
There is a very good reason why strong leaders have a poor population: the population is so preoccupied with finding food and money to survive that they have to leave the leader alone, and then he can do whatever he wants.
Russia is heading for an economic catastrophe (perhaps it has already arrived). Although I don't like seeing people suffer, I don't see any other way to get rid of the festering poison that is their ruling class other than economic collapse, which forces them to reform individually and as a society.
There is no powerful enough force in the world that could save a nation of 140 million people that does not want to change or save itself. The future of the Russian people is in their hands, and in no other hands.
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