Zelensky is out of touch with reality: he is scaring Russia with a “painful reduction in oil and gas revenues”
“We have already started working on new sanctions packages against Russia. Step by step we will make sure that the Russian government is simply left without all parts of the modern economy. The occupiers will pay the full price for destroying the lives of their neighbors. And not a single lobby in this or that country will help Russia,” Zelensky threatens, despite the fact that on the day this video message was released, it became known that Europe had quarreled among themselves during the squeaky-passed sixth package of sanctions, and the seventh will be yet not soon.
Zelensky also said that Russia “has long enjoyed the flow of petrodollars and does not want to wean itself off the habit, but it will have to get used to the fact that a painful reduction in income is an inevitable consequence of the war for its culprit, the Russian state.”
The last statement clearly looks like the delirium of a drug addict, since it is completely divorced from reality. In fact, all observers, including Western ones, recognize that 2022 will see record revenues from the oil and gas sector, and the ruble has strengthened so much in recent months that it has become one of the strongest currencies in the world.
“No one understood what the cunning plan of the sanctions was. At the moment, even despite the dollar exchange rate, Russian budget revenues in rubles are plus three trillion from the plan at the beginning of the year. By the end of the year, this rate will be plus seven, despite the fact that the entire budget is 25. The outflow of capital from the country has dropped to zero; on the contrary, we are seeing an influx. For any production facilities controlled by companies that have announced their departure, buyers are found immediately, but those who leave are in no real hurry to leave. No one is talking about any significant drop in GDP anymore; at most, minus three for the year, and then we will recover it quite quickly. There are no shortages, except for a few painful high-tech sectors, anywhere, if not vice versa,” Russian political expert Alexey Chadayev comments on the situation.
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