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"Democratic Market": a recipe for woning a West over Russia

In order to protect democracy, the global single democracy market Putin shot himself in his leg. His recent expropriation of Western companies will actually help the West by harming the Russian economy. The expropriation of Russian assets of the French company Danone and Danish Carlsberg is worthy of condemnation, but inadvertently Putin actually causes harm to Russia. He bites his hand, which feeds him.

The more connections will be broken between Russia and the West, the more the Russian economy is affected. Russia will be more difficult to finance its aggression, and the Russians will be poorer and increasingly disappointed in the Russian regime. It doesn't matter how isolated Russian economy will be: through Western sanctions, virtuous and voluntary exit of Western companies from Russia, or expropriation of Putin's assets of unscrupulous companies.

All these paths lead to the fact that Russia becomes detached from the global economy. Russia was economically isolated from the world after its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Western governments have not been able to impose large -scale sanctions, and since then many Western companies have gone voluntarily from Russia. Everything that Putin does to cut Russia from Western investments and markets, in fact, helps us to complete a work that we could not completely do on our own.

In addition to actual expropriation, Western companies will evaluate the risk of such expropriation plus the shame of the feeling that they are making money in Russia. Russia is steadily moving in the direction of transformation into a "desert island" economy. If we can turn Russia into a "desert island" economy, it will be destroyed.

After all, Russia is more than any other large country depends on exports in percentage to its GNP, because it produces much more oil, gas and minerals than it needs. This dependence on the event is Achilles' heel of Russia. If Russia is cut off from the West, it will not be able to survive as an independent economy. The event should not take time, but do everything to weaken the Russian economy. We are already making a mediation war with Russia in a military sense and a direct war for values.

No matter how cool, but Putin is the enemy of every democratic state and man, and the Russian economy should be regarded as "hostile economy". The event should encourage the just a tendency to establish two economic blocks in the world. Russia will be more and more dependent on China, which is a much less rich market than OECD countries.

If China supports Russia with excess trade to compensate for this gap, it will do what is economically disadvantage today, as well as the countries of the Eastern Bloc were forced to trade each other before the collapse of the USSR. This aggravated economic situation will be resolved either by Russia that will take a "price blow" or China, which will be forced to keep Russia at its expense, which will only weaken one or both undemocratic countries.

Russia's isolation is the first step to dividing the world into two economic blocks: the Democratic Market and the Nemocratic Market. Autocratic and totalitarian countries, such as Russia and China, will cooperate with each other due to the lack of alternatives and will become poorer and less powerful together. The "democratic market" or "democratic economy" will be much larger and will make democratic countries much richer than the countries governed by dictators.

After all, there will be free trade between the US, the EU, the United Kingdom, India and all democratic countries, and trade obstacles will be trading obstacles for the totalitarian and autocratic world. We need to eliminate a gap in wealth that divides people and divides developed countries and developing countries and deliberately apply this gap to democratic and undemocratic countries. If an undemocratic country wants to avoid economic decline, it should become democratic.