Question: Could the ascended masters please comment on the state of the Russian economy? Judging by the fact that Russian parliamentarians are discussing the need to introduce food cards in all regions of Russia, and given the huge budget expenditures of the war, as well as the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia, one gets the impression that the economy is close to collapse, up to and including a food crisis. How likely is this scenario in Russia? Or does the Russian economy still have a margin of safety and the economic situation in the country will develop according to the Iranian scenario, with a gradual and smooth deterioration of the economy and its adaptation to new conditions, perhaps a transition from a market economy to an administrative command economy, as it was during the Soviet Union?
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 New Year’s webinar.
Well, the simple answer is that the Russian economy is right on the edge of a breakdown. It is possible that the breakdown can be delayed somewhat, but it is quite likely that unless the war stops, there will be a breakdown in 2025. Exactly how it will form is difficult to predict, because of course the government and the Central Bank are trying to do everything they can to patch up the economy here and there and everywhere. However, there are indeed, and this messenger has watched several of them, YouTube videos that outline the problems in the Russian economy, not only in the short term, but even in the long term. And you can easily find those and you can therefore, get a more detailed understanding of this than I can give you here. But it is more likely that the economy will go through some kind of severe crisis than it will go into the Iranian scenario of a slow deterioration. If it does go into a slow deterioration, this will only delay the crash.
What was it that brought the Soviet Union to fall apart? It was the economy, because the economy, the command economy was not sustainable. If you go into another form of command economy, why would that be more stable, more sustainable than what happened during the Soviet Union? You are essentially moving towards that with a wartime economy. And the big problem there is that the government is paying out so much money to the defense industry that they are siphoning workers from other industries who therefore, cannot compete because they are not sustained by government money. You are already moving towards a point where, if the government does not prop up a certain industry, that industry will deteriorate. And this will, of course, include the food industry. You also have the problem, of course, that unemployment is at a very low level, which is not, despite the official propaganda, what makes an economy sustainable. It actually shows a fundamental problem. Too many workers have been needlessly killed in Ukraine. Others have been funneled up to defense industries so that basic industries such as food production do not have the workers.
Therefore, it is very likely that a food crisis will come. It is, in fact, almost impossible to avoid it. And the question simply is: Will this be the straw that breaks the camel’s back of the Russian people’s patience with Putin and his government? Or will, as the old saying goes, the empty refrigerator win over people’s unwillingness to protest?
It is clear that the Russian people are afraid to protest. Many believe in the official propaganda, which is giving them a completely distorted view, not only of the war in Ukraine, but also of the economy. The question simply is: Can the undeniable realities of food prices or food shortages bring the Russian people where they are at the point where they say: “Enough is enough. We will not accept this anymore.” I do not have an unequivocal answer to that question. But given what you have heard from Archangel Gabriel with the release of these energies, I can assure you that this is something that the Russian government had not planned for and, of course, could not plan for because they would not recognize any spiritual influence. But this will accelerate what is going on in Russia. And it is the most likely scenario that what will bring the war to an end will be the economy.
The question is, as we have already mentioned, when will a critical mass of leaders in Russia be willing to acknowledge the reality that either they stop the war or they crash the economy? And if Putin is not willing to acknowledge this reality, will these leaders then be willing to get rid of Putin? That is the question that is likely to be answered in 2025. And it is a complicated situation, of course, but the sanctions have definitely had a major impact. And that is why in retrospect, it will be seen that the approach of imposing these sanctions as a way to stop the war was wiser than engaging in a military confrontation with Russia. However, it will also be seen in retrospect that the American government and Western governments could have done more at an earlier stage to give weapons to Ukraine, give them permission to use them so that they could have pushed the Russian armed forces further back and therefore, not been on this defensive withdrawal cycle that they had been in for most of 2024.
I am not saying that the approach taken by the West has been perfect. I am just saying that it has been a pragmatic approach and it definitely has had a major effect. Now, it must be said also that it is not just the sanctions that have brought the Russian economy to its current state. It is very much also the policy of Putin who has literally put all of the nation’s resources into the war in Ukraine. And anyone with a willingness to look at reality could have seen at a very early stage that this war cannot be won militarily by Russia, and therefore, could have seen that all of this is unnecessary. It is only a deeply delusional person who can believe that a military victory in Ukraine is right around the corner after almost three years. The question is how many leaders in Russia are buying into this delusion, are blinded by this delusion and how many are willing to look at reality. It will not come from the people, sadly, even though it could have, but it is highly unlikely that it will come from the people.
The question is, are there some leaders who are willing to acknowledge that if Putin will not stop the war, we need to stop Putin because it is either stopping the war or crashing the economy. You see, you talk about an Iranian scenario, but Iran has for a long time not been in a war situation. It is not just a matter of the Russian economy not producing enough. It is a matter of producing so much military hardware that is being destroyed that it is just not a sustainable economy. A wartime economy is not a sustainable economy.
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