Russia faces a "major challenge" from sanctions denying access to foreign technology, President Vladimir Putin said Monday.
"Obviously, we cannot develop in isolation from the rest of the world. And we won’t," Putin said in a report posted in state-run Tass. "It is impossible in the present-day world to merely issue a decree and erect a huge fence. It is simply impossible." But Putin told his Council for Strategic Development that his country will not "lose heart" or see decades of progress reversed. Putin called for expansion of the technological capacities, research and innovation of Russian companies.
You mean the same technology that’s divided a nation. He’s better off without it
Noah Johnson
Nationalists btfo
Zachary Morris
That was the point of the special operation. NATO wanted to court Ukraine and make it an ally against Russia, which would block its air space to Russia, cut off ports in the Black Sea, export oil to rival Russia, and grain too. They wanted to enclose Russia and starve it so that it could never become more of a threat, and they failed. Ukraine will fall and Russia will continue to grow and expand in wealth and power.
