Russia in the World

As the world now knows, British bank NatWest, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland group, has told Russian media outlet RT that it should take its business elsewhere.

Vladimir Putin’s most recent staff change has western experts baffled. According to the BBC, Mr. Putin’s new chief of staff Anton Vaino has reached the top of the Kremlin pecking order “shrouded in mystery”. However cloak & dagger Mr. Vaino’s appointment may seem though, it’s a clear sign Russia is headed off into a far more progressive policy realm than Londoners or Wall Street financiers would have us believe. Here is a candid look at the Putin way ahead.

As it is currently well known, countries using coal in power engineering are trying to reduce consumption of this fuel source in order to minimize the damage that it causes to the environment. However, we should not ignore the fact that coal is much cheaper than other energy sources, and its instant abandonment is impossible. Despite a gradual sales slowdown, it will continue to be one of man’s most important mineral and energy sources for many years.

Lies, the examination thereof, may well lead the people of the world to the right choices. After almost four years of independent analysis of PR, politics and media in the current catastrophic atmosphere, this is the only hopeful conclusion to come to. News the western mainstream is losing credibility before the people is one highlight, but a lot more meaningful evidence is there to be gleaned. Here are some key takeaways the normal person can get hold of.

On May 22, 1949 the first US Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, who avidly promoted Russophobia and anti-Russian hysteria in American society, stepped out the window, with the last words from his mouth being: “The Russians are coming“.
Today, almost three decades since the end of the Cold War, Russophobia remains a pivotal part of US foreign policy, actively pushed forward by supporters of the so-called war party in Washington.

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, was the key player at the G20 Summit that took place in September 2016 in China. This was due to not only political reasons: the Russian leader managed to garner extra popularity with international media outlets all because of an unexpected gift – a box of Russian ice cream, which Mr Putin personally presented to the President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping.

In a fundamental sense the entirety of the five-year-long war over Syria, as well as the entire Arab Spring from Libya to Egypt to Iraq has been about control of hydrocarbon resources—oil and natural gas– and of potential hydrocarbon pipelines to the promising markets of the European Union. Dick Cheney’s 2001 War on Terror was primarily about providing the excuse for a direct US military takeover of the vast oil fields of Iraq and other key Middle East countries.

With so much murder and destruction of infrastructure around the world from Syria to Ukraine to Venezuela and Nigeria, I want to highlight two recent projects to build new infrastructure in order to bring economic growth and prosperity to some of the least developed regions of the Earth—Eurasia, the vast land space between Russia and China. Two projects have just confirmed they are going ahead. The Moscow-Kazan-China high-speed railway via Kazakhstan is one.