Mikhail Khazin: "Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow we may wake up in a completely different country"

“Everyone knows: if you say some correct words, you will have pies and donuts. And the fact that these words do not correspond to reality - oh, what is a difference, it does not matter!

Well, okay, Petrov and Boshirov didn’t hound the Skripals and didn’t blow up warehouses. So what? If in all Western newspapers it is written that they blew up, then they blew up.

This is such an information society of the postmodern era: it is not important how it was in reality, but it is important how it is written.

The trouble is that the demolition of this virtual reality society will not be there sometime, but now, in the coming months, most likely.

From the point of view of a purely human, well, of any conservative, to which I belong, this is wonderful.

That is, we will return to a real society, in which real events, their real causes are discussed, and, thus, we can talk about what can be done to somehow compensate for the negative consequences of these real events.

But, from the point of view of people who live in this postmodernity, this is a total catastrophe, because they do not know how to understand what is happening, nor analyze causes and effects, nor, even more so, draw conclusions, and we see this very well...

Incidentally, this is another problem that the government will have to face when implementing Putin's instructions. They live in virtual reality, where inflation is 3-4%, something else, something else ...

And people know for sure: inflation is 20%, or even more. And How? They say, here we compensated you for payments by 3%. And people say yes, but we can buy with these compensated incomes 20% less than before. As a result, we fall into poverty.

Government, ay, wake up!

At the same time, the government in its liberal part is behaving absolutely arrogantly.

As we know, Siluanov, the head of the Ministry of Finance, one of the leaders of the liberal team, appointed as chairman of the public council under his ministry such a person as Sinelnikov-Murylev, who was Gaidar's assistant when he was deputy prime minister, then was Gaidar's deputy at the Gaidar Institute, and and so on, and now he is under investigation in the case of embezzlement of budget funds at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, where he is the vice-rector.

That is, in general, this is an absolute demonstration: the finance minister told Putin in plain text, I don't care what you think with your security officials, I play for another team, the bosses are overseas, and they will force you to abide by our rules.

I understand that Siluanov does not have an understanding of the processes that are taking place in the United States, and not because he has no brains, but because he closes his own eyes to real processes.

But we must all understand that the processes that have already begun will inevitably entail serious consequences.

And we must all be ready for this.

Moreover, for our country, these consequences can be very positive. But are we ready?

That is, roughly speaking, if they suddenly give investments, are we ready to master them?

I urge everyone to think about this topic. The relevance of this process can grow dramatically.

We, literally tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, may wake up in a completely different country, which is in different external political and external economic conditions. And this should be the starting point".

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