“The first thing to realize for yourself: we are a small regional power, as Barack Obama said.
And this has the following justifications.
We are the eleventh economy in the world. Well, at least not yet.
Our leaders periodically set the task of purchasing power parity - to move and overtake Germany. Forgetting, of course, to tell our fellow citizens that purchasing power parity is achieved rather primitively.
Both there and there are four-wheeled vehicles, and if you drive a cart, and they drive, for example, a BMW or a Maybach, then, accordingly, it seems like you are doing well in terms of purchasing power parity. Therefore, this figure is often very crafty.
We return to Mother Russia. We have thirteen cities with a population of one million, and there are three hundred cities in total. In China, let me remind you, there are three hundred million people.
These millionaires are very scattered here, and if we look at where the main population is concentrated, we will see that it is concentrated in only two "states" - Muscovy and St. Petersburg, well, with adjacent (territories).
Further there is an almost deserted desert and occasionally found small towns, which are inhabited, there, by half a million people. That is, we have no special cities. The territories are deserted.
Any production, no matter how intensive it may be, it is always calculated solely on the basis of population density.
And since we do not possess such a density, and our territories are really huge, then it makes no sense to produce anything here for a certain character.
It is necessary to produce where there is a population density, and there is a solvency.
We do not observe either one or the other.
Therefore, our products are always worse in terms of assortment, and the quality is such that it contains less and less useful ingredients.
Therefore, when they take my comments about import substitution, I explain that it is not technologically very possible with us either. It is possible so locally in some areas that it is not important for the world currency and for our fellow citizens.
In order to reduce costs, you need to connect to the market with the most consumers. Let's take our car market.
Few understand that the automotive market of the Russian Federation is two or three hundred units. The average Chinese manufacturer is considered to be just average when one produces half a million of these units.
Now you can imagine what level of scale needs to be done in order to get a low cost price.
In order to have a low cost price and prices did not grow in a galloping way, consumption must be increased five to six times. And for this, the population must be larger in our territory - the same five or six times, well, consumption with income, respectively, must be higher.
Therefore, the economic reasons for the simultaneous impoverishment of our fellow citizens and the underdevelopment of the Russian economy are absolutely primitive.
Another thing is that all this is being replaced by wrapping the country with barbed wire, calling everyone names left and right, that they are somewhere Pindos, somewhere Geyropians, while we are not yet calling the Chinese people, but this, in general, is not very far away.
The Taman conflict has been around for a very long time, and I'm not even talking about other conflicts that have already happened with the PRC. And there will be more development of events that we will see in a short time”.
You can watch Dmitry Potapenko's video here.