Thread:Kiadony/@comment-5916303-20150313162115/@comment-5916303-20150324191638

Kiadony wrote: We kind of have a similar problem here, but with more kinds of products - during the Soviet years, Russia was able to produce all kinds of goods on its own, from grown food to machinery, but then we became more dependent on the imported ones, becoming a raw material-providing country (oil/natural gas). Now with all these sanctions, the government should theoretically put more money into producing goods again, but, well, of course in truth it is more complicated. I don't have much understanding of politics, and most of what you can hear in the media is propaganda anyway.

I do have a vast interest and above fair knowledge of politics, but I gave up on these once I saw how messed up its system is. At one point it looked like our government was a kindergarten, when one of the judges said during a live debate:"Would the members of the democratic party please stop calling out the socialist representatives". Our agencies are a joke. Our minister of foreign affairs doesn't understand a countries language that he works with and makes a complete full out of himself, a fat guy is the police chief of internal affairs, our president probably doesn't have a college degree, the smartest guy in Serbia with an IQ over 200 is an ultra-nationalist and the list goes on. Basically, it's like a Slavic version of The Simpsons. I swear, this could be turned into a sitcom.

I don't listen to those anyways, they're too made up and too one-sided. One of our independent news networks noted that barely any television mentioned various bombs going off in eastern districts were the protesters are situated. And yet, they say there are no winners in war, but their benefactors get loaded. We have our own turmoil because of this as well, Serbia is the only country in Europe that has yet to impose sanctions to Russia, we're sort of neutral, because of that whole "brotherhood and unity" thing and it's because of this that we constantly get pressured into submission by the west. If we don't stand with them, it might affect our foreign relationship and might even block our path to the EU, when we just became a potential candidate, they might even consider us their enemy. On the other hand, if we do side with them, Russian government will cut all its ties with us and doom our industries. See, this is why Russian politicians are smart, they've got their businessman buying everything around Europe and now they've pulled out their investments, leaving foreign businesses to crumble, such in Montenegro. The whole coast (well, not literally, but you get the gist of it) was bought by them and now they've pulled out once the sanctions kicked in.