At this point, the MoD is taken a lot more seriously relative to the neoliberal central bank when it comes to determining economic policy. The MoD has a separate academic world from the highly westernized economics departments. This is the main influence apart from the PRC when it comes to balancing out the neoliberal comprador tendencies of the Kremlin.
Putin makes decisions based on a kind of mnemonic policy sentimentalism, if you get what I mean by that. He sees a serious comparison between Israel’s colonial predations and the Chechnya War, in that both are “struggles against terrorism”. However he also sees that China’s foreign policy of mutualistic development & building up the economy of other “developing countries” (overexploited countries, as Parenti would clarify) is the only way out of this global trap. What’s pushed the Kremlin and all of the industrial capitalists in Russia towards China is - ironically - the US becoming convinced that Russia is too large to not be brought to heel, for fear of its fully redeveloped industry and heavy petroleum resources and vast land reserves imbalancing the precarious dominance of the empire. Russian politics were oriented towards becoming a subimperialist ally of Europe for a long time. Now that it has totally foreclosed on that possibility, we see frantic “good cop, bad cop” ploys from Trump to reel them back in. The damage is done, though.
The oligarchy is done. Its power was predicated on access to US-controlled capital concentrations. The US severed this link itself.
Who is Putin’s"brain"?
At this point, the MoD is taken a lot more seriously relative to the neoliberal central bank when it comes to determining economic policy. The MoD has a separate academic world from the highly westernized economics departments. This is the main influence apart from the PRC when it comes to balancing out the neoliberal comprador tendencies of the Kremlin.
Putin makes decisions based on a kind of mnemonic policy sentimentalism, if you get what I mean by that. He sees a serious comparison between Israel’s colonial predations and the Chechnya War, in that both are “struggles against terrorism”. However he also sees that China’s foreign policy of mutualistic development & building up the economy of other “developing countries” (overexploited countries, as Parenti would clarify) is the only way out of this global trap. What’s pushed the Kremlin and all of the industrial capitalists in Russia towards China is - ironically - the US becoming convinced that Russia is too large to not be brought to heel, for fear of its fully redeveloped industry and heavy petroleum resources and vast land reserves imbalancing the precarious dominance of the empire. Russian politics were oriented towards becoming a subimperialist ally of Europe for a long time. Now that it has totally foreclosed on that possibility, we see frantic “good cop, bad cop” ploys from Trump to reel them back in. The damage is done, though.
The oligarchy is done. Its power was predicated on access to US-controlled capital concentrations. The US severed this link itself.
Don’t think you will like that one 😅