As Biden’s US presidency approaches, fate of Nord Stream 2 pipeline will indicate whether Russia & EU are set for final divorceThe biggest event in Russia history ,after soviet union collapse and even bigger in the entire
Russia history ,including soviet and russia empire era ,in terms of economy ,without a doubt
will be the cancellation of nord stream 2 project by europe. if cancelled ,means europeans
capitulated to the only option they had ,the only system that was available ,the american one.
Whether that the European union ban it at government level or that the companies there black mailed by Americans to abandon it ,doesn't matter ,it will show that Russia will be officially
out of the european union commerce ,and any sales to them will be comparable to the one
they have with australia ,totally irrelevant in russia economy ,means russia and europe trading with the perfect storm of sanctions and covid19 ,will become less than 1% of russia budget..
You all heard many times how even putin during 2014 sanctions over crimea , they told..
"the best thing about western sanctions is that
Force us to become independent of the
west...." bla bla bla , then he began to speak about Russia "pivot to Asia".
Problem is . he still continues depending on the west , six years later , russia still depends on
western system and european money for russia development , Russia have developed zero alternatives to the american internet , zero alternatives to western banking system ,
zero alternatives to international payment systems like visa ,mastercard ,zero alternatives to
the swift international microtransanction system ,zero alternatives to western computer industry ,like intel ,amd ,microsoft ,and western software industry , and no strong competition at all to the western modern culture and entertainment industry , he keep russia in the soviet past ,every hollyday in russia is directly connected to soviet union memorable event . Russia thematic entertainment parks are all made either to honor soviet union or done by american companies.
So how Putin expect ,that the european union throw away their western american world ,that is not perfect for sure but they can work on it to improve it ,and change it for a piece of empty white paper? Russia is not even leading in space explorations or anything ,just taxi to ISS ,while now the space race is done by US and China. So why will the european union choose to cut completely their relations with american business world ,that includes US high tech puppets states like japan ,south korea and taiwan (and still includes china) ?
So how many years needs to putin to make Russia a true independent nation ,is 20 years in powers not enough? look how much china have achieved in 20 years, when in that period china was far behind Russia in every development area. does putin needs the entire world to abandon the anglo american jewish system ,just because putin will ask them politely for it ?
Sadly no , under putin russia will never truly progress ,because there is absolutely no major differences to what putin was doing in 2000 vs 2020.. other than a more independent military industry ,and a little bit more independent agriculture.. but thats all. he have not done any major breakthroughts in high tech business industry . they produce science tech demos here or there ,but
they never do a business with them ,and capitalize it. Russia economy dependence on oil and gas sales , is what holds back russia entire national development ,because a huge mountain of money is
invested in building those pipelines ,maintainance ,and in building refineries and the staff required
for that operation.
So why a cancelation of nord stream 2 ,could become the most important event for Russia
future ? because will show clearly Russia have no future as a gas station ,and Putin realize his entire economic strategy was a total abysmal failure the past 20 years ,and that combined with ever decreasing oil prices of oil and natural gas ,will send Russia economy in free fall ,because nord stream 1 will neither be profitable , and for the first time Putin realize ,that his entire vision of russia as a saudi arabia of eure-asia was completely wrong , this is because china is also moving away from Russia energy industry , they are pushing for free clean energy , solar energy ,electrical energy , and many other more future looking technologies.
If that wasn't enough bad news , (if nord stream 2 cancelled) , Russia will face the backslash of
also putin short sight vision of russia as an olympic nation ,post covid19 era.. sports and tourism
will be death , those will continue but only as online events and people will cease to travel ,so bad
news too for Putin . he might as well sell the entire sochi avenues to the middle east ,in scrap metal,
at least will be less embarrassing to have sochi completely empty of people and to observe it to rust ,for the lack of money to maintain it. Russia needs to modernize its economy or collapse and die.. they have no other options. Since putin is scared of electronic high tech industry , is more than likely they will push for pharma industry and dedicate to do vaccines.. which will not be a bad thing economic wise ,but still will do nothing to stop the western system if they allowed to continue leading
the world in high tech and space. The only hope Russia will have to not become another collapsed soviet union and not split in many parts again ,will be to become a colony of china , which will be the only competition the west will face and the only other nation leading in the world , after US .