Posted on 06/17/2022 10:24:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Hackers on Friday delayed the start of President Vladimir Putin's speech to Russia's flagship economic forum, shorn of strong Western participation as Russia adjusts to the "new reality" of life under Western sanctions.
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But the Western investors and investment bankers who had turned up in previous years were conspicuously absent.
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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said a denial of service attack, which works by flooding servers with bogus traffic, had struck the forum's accreditation and admission systems.
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Internet connectivity and speeds suffered at the forum, and Putin's speech, in which he accused the West of trying to crush his country with an economic "blitzkrieg", was delayed by a little over 100 minutes.
Western sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine combined with related supply chain issues have starkly altered Russia's export-import dynamics, with the country now looking to the likes of China and India and turning away from the West.
Key banks have lost access to the global payments system SWIFT, Western brands are shunning the country and selling up in a hurry, writing off billions of dollars in assets - and the European Union has promised an embargo on Russian oil.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko lamented Russia's backwardness in technology, and said the "painful process" of Russia switching to its own technology was under way.
"You are competing with global companies that have overtaken you by whole generations," he told an audience of Russian business representatives.
The CEO of Russia's top lender Sberbank summed up the situation with grim irony.
"They say all is well with business in Russia, there are just small problems: there is no one to buy from and no one to sell too, it's impossible to pay and impossible to supply," German Gref said on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.usnews.com ...
Having lived and worked in mostly Moscow and Kiev for most of a decade, and having been significantly working on and with the Russian CCCP orb since 1987 and CIS since 1991, the vast majority of Russian and subordinate CIS member citizens today live within “versions” of the centrally controlled socialist governing apparatus which existed pre 1991 (and pre 1988).
Almost nothing is really as portrayed to the West. We can say the same of America, but the average citizen in Russia today has been significantly indoctrinated and shielded, and groomed throughout childhood, to believe and live in a “non-reality”.
Many terms used today in both Russia and the US do not mean the same at all. Agents at RIA Novosti (and others) are heavily involved in American “social media”, “blogs”, and mass media and press. They have historically been there, but are routinely involved on “conservative” sites as well, appearing to be socially conservative (this is their legitimacy key/Pass to all conservative sites), and using the historical illiteracy and ignorance of “what is” to develope what we have long referred to as the classic “group think/mob think” psychology.
Once the group/mob embraces their disinformation and groomed position, it cannot be undone. Precisely as Bezmenov layed out.
It isn’t the same for the larger ruling class, but the average person in the Russian Federation and CIS is fundamentally a dependent, with their life largely determined, or majority determined by the state. In practice, parents are caretakers of the states children (unless one is part of the significant ruling class).
Putin is a real force (with control of the world’s largest Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical stockpiles and related R&D programs in the world (partially funded by the US since 1991 I might add), and may well be the guy to really end up reducing Russia. However, RusFed and subordinate CIS system’s finance, economic, battle space, law, judiciary, police, and social apparatus/architecture is foundationally socialist and reciprocal, and subordinate ultimately to Moscow.
America has jumped headlong into a global socialist engkneered architecture, but we still have a little fight left in opposition, and our socialist totalitarian type architecture isn’t quite there... yet -
Bottom line, RUS socialist apparatus will remain after Putin is gone or replaced. Corporately, it is we in the West who have not followed the details, and therefore cannot discern “what is what”.
Conservatives in America today are largely “group think cannon fodder”.
Having lived and worked in mostly Moscow and Kiev for most of a decade, and having been significantly working on and with the Russian CCCP orb since 1987 and CIS since 1991, the vast majority of Russian and subordinate CIS member citizens today live within “versions” of the centrally controlled socialist governing apparatus which existed pre 1991 (and pre 1988).
Almost nothing is really as portrayed to the West. We can say the same of America, but the average citizen in Russia today has been significantly indoctrinated and shielded, and groomed throughout childhood, to believe and live in a “non-reality”.
Many terms used today in both Russia and the US do not mean the same at all. Agents at RIA Novosti (and others) are heavily involved in American “social media”, “blogs”, and mass media and press. They have historically been there, but are routinely involved on “conservative” sites as well, appearing to be socially conservative (this is their legitimacy key/Pass to all conservative sites), and using the historical illiteracy and ignorance of “what is” to develope what we have long referred to as the classic “group think/mob think” psychology.
Once the group/mob embraces their disinformation and groomed position, it cannot be undone. Precisely as Bezmenov layed out.
It isn’t the same for the larger ruling class, but the average person in the Russian Federation and CIS is fundamentally a dependent, with their life largely determined, or majority determined by the state. In practice, parents are caretakers of the states children (unless one is part of the significant ruling class).
Putin is a real force (with control of the world’s largest Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical stockpiles and related R&D programs in the world (partially funded by the US since 1991 I might add), and may well be the guy to really end up reducing Russia. However, RusFed and subordinate CIS system’s finance, economic, battle space, law, judiciary, police, and social apparatus/architecture is foundationally socialist and reciprocal, and subordinate ultimately to Moscow.
America has jumped headlong into a global socialist engkneered architecture, but we still have a little fight left in opposition, and our socialist totalitarian type architecture isn’t quite there... yet -
Bottom line, RUS socialist apparatus will remain after Putin is gone or replaced. Corporately, it is we in the West who have not followed the details, and therefore cannot discern “what is what”.
Conservatives in America today are largely “group think cannon fodder”.
I posted this on the other thread this morning.
That’s odd because Fox News Channel just had a live feed on and the lights are on, Putin is speaking and he’s not looking near death.
there was a pothole in the wmt tech highway this morning that slowed things down a bit. was back to normal fast according to diwndetector
/Sarc
Ah
You must be looking through a Russian, Indian, African, South American, etc, TV because western TV’s show he is dying!
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