Why does Russia need Crimea?
Moscow - Sevastopol, May 22 (Navigator, Viktor Yadukha) - The unwillingness of the Russian Federation to solve the problems of Crimea reveals the colonial nature of its economy and social system. A huge country is forced to overcome hundreds of restrictions imposed on it by technological, financial and spiritual dependence on the West. If we succeed in weakening it, Crimea will become the assembly point of the new Russia. If Moscow backslides, it will be the beginning of its end.
He writes about this in his author’s column for Navigator. Victor Yaduha, agency columnist Rosbalt.
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...It seems that the annexation of Crimea came as a surprise and shock to the Russian ruling class. Judging by the government's reactions to the challenges, no one knew anything until recently. It is unlikely that we will ever know who made the decisions and how, and what it was all about. Lightning-fast improvisation by Putin, stung by the Euromaidan before the Olympics? The spark of prowess of his security forces, immediately drowned in comprador soot?
Statements by the President of the Russian Federation that “we were preparing” for the costs of annexing Crimea have not yet been fully confirmed. It is noticeable that few people in Moscow understand how to solve the mass of trivial problems that arise along the way. What to do with water for agriculture? With transport and logistics? With electricity? With mobile communications? With ATMs? With prices? With gasoline? With small and medium businesses? With winemaking?
But these tasks are simpler than those that faced Catherine’s Russia in 1783 and the destroyed USSR in 1945. But today Russia is much less independent than under the tsars. The public administration system built in the Russian Federation since 1991 turned out to be incapable of even short-term mobilization. Liberal-imperial disputes paralyze the government. There are not enough adequate personnel: the team of plunderers is organically incapable of building. And there is nothing to build on - the country is deindustrialized.
While Moscow threatens the West with retaliatory sanctions, entire abysses of its technological dependence are opening up. It turns out that the military equipment with which we undertook to “threaten the Swede” uses microchips from the USA, Europe, China and South Korea. Almost all the machines on which we produce weapons are imported. At the Votkinsk plant, where Topol missiles are made, more than half of the machines are Czech, French, Swiss, and American.
At the same time, the defense industry and atomprom are 80% dependent on Ukraine. 60% of gearboxes and gas turbines for Russian warships are made in Nikolaev. Hydraulic systems for Su-27, Su-30 and Su-35 aircraft are also from Ukraine.
It turned out that it is making not only the old “Satan” missile, which makes up 70% of the nuclear missile potential of the Russian Federation, but also the guidance system of the new “Topol”, which is planned to replace this “Satan”. It turns out that the combat readiness of the Strategic Missile Forces is now guaranteed to us personally by the sponsor of the Right Sector, Kolomoisky. If the United States allows him: yesterday in Congress they again demanded that Ukraine curtail military cooperation with Moscow.
Now it is clearly visible how the Kremlin oligarchy is writhing from an unwillingness to jump over its head. Having made threatening statements, Moscow is moving back, not recognizing the Donetsk Republic and recognizing those whom it itself calls a “junta.” The business nomenclature can’t wait to return to the comprador swamp, to the Third World, where there is no need to make extra efforts. It is no longer clear whether we are creating a National Payment System, whether we are moving to trading oil for rubles, or whether we can forget about this. The bridge across the Kerch Strait is already being called upon to be built by the Chinese, who, unlike our great victors, for some reason are not afraid of Uncle Sam’s sanctions. The offshore aristocracy understands that if they continue in the same spirit, they will lose the country. But she doesn’t know what to do with sovereignty: she doesn’t have her own dream, she’s too Americanized.
Honestly, I don't know what to do with all this. I don’t know who will make the great leap, given that Russian youth have not been going into industry and science for a long time, and Ukrainian military engineers are being threatened so that they do not think of responding to Putin’s offer to move to the Russian Federation. But small Crimea urgently demands that big Russia return to financial, technological and spiritual sovereignty. If we don’t do this, we will remain the Great Fake, the Land of Make-Believe. Which, if it annexed Crimea, would have been either to McDonald’s or to the Federal Reserve System.
But how, in this case, does Russia differ from Ukraine?
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