RTThu, 14 Aug 2014 23:57 UTC
© RIA Novosti / Alexei Druzhinin
Russians must consolidate and develop their country, neither sliding into isolationism
nor sacrificing their dignity for the sake of pleasing anyone, President Vladimir Putin declared.
"We have to develop our country with calm, dignity and efficiency, without barricading ourselves from the outer world or breaking ties with partners, but also without allowing anyone to treat us with disrespect," he told Russian MPs in Yalta, Crimea.
He called on a consolidation of the people, "not for the sake of any wars or conflict," but "for an industrious labor force for Russia and in Russia's name."
The president defended sanctions of food imports, which the Russian government imposed in response to several rounds of anti-Russian sanctions of the West.
"It's not just a response. First of all,
it's support for domestic producers and the opening of our markets to the countries and producers, who want and are willing to cooperate with Russia," Putin said.
Whatever the foreign relations of Russia are, "our focus now is on domestic affairs, on the goals and tasks which the people of Russia challenge us with," he added.
Western nations, championed by the US, have imposed several series of sanctions against a number of Russian companies and individuals to punish Moscow for what they see as aggression against Ukraine.
The Kremlin believes that the policy is counterproductive and hypocritical, since the political crisis in Ukraine, which escalated into a civil war in the eastern parts of the country,
was to a large extent caused by Washington and Brussels.
Relations between Russia and Western powers are at their worst point since the Cold War, as the parties appear to be starting a trade war.
Comment: This is what a political leader should be. The food embargo is a stroke of genius, which will not only strengthen Russia's economy and its ties with the sane countries of the world; it will also have the effect of showing the cowards and cronies in the EU that siding with the dying U.S. empire has consequences. Putin is presenting the world with an option, and alternative. Will we take it? Or will we continue to allow spineless, remorseless psychopaths to lie, plunder, and murder?
From my studies years ago came the observation that from just looking at a person's picture one could come to a pretty good sense for the "quality" of that person, and with Vladimir that's exactly what I've been doing for some time now.
Every time I see a pic I simply stop for a moment, like the image sink in, and pay attention to what I think/feel; then I interrogate myself, then I store the "data."
From signal analysis (and what are we doing if not analyzing "signals;" or not) comes the reality that coherent information adds will non-coherent information tends to cancel. Truthfulness is coherent while bullshit is non-coherent . . .
So, by doing cumulative, running "averages" signal-to-noise ratios can be increased, over -many- data samplings, by about 20dB or about 10 times. Now this is electronics but physics is physics and the same applies to -accurate- observations (objective observations) of "situations" in which people are involved. Objectivity however absolutely -is- the watchword, That and repetitive observation . . . years worth, to learn the skill/process.
These days a bottom line for me is that the more of Putin I observe, the more I trust him . . .
In stark contrast, the Beltway Bozo-s are just what they've always been: selfish assholes bereft two firing neurons between their collective ass and Heaven . . .