The Evolving Narrative on Global Temperatures and the Danger of Solar Geoengineering

By now, many of my readers may have heard about the United Kingdom's plan to fund certain climate-based experiments through its Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA).  According to the Agency's website, the group has the following core beliefs about "Future Proofing Our Climate and Weather":

The goal of ARIA is to "gather critical missing data and answer fundamental scientific questions on approaches that could help prevent humanity from experiencing climate tipping points" and to "explore whether approaches designed to delay, or avert, climate tipping points could be feasible, scalable, and safe."

ARIA claims that it is committed to responsible stewardship, transparency, accountailbilty and good governance and states the following about its funded research:

1.) Deliver valuable knowledge that can address the most pressing critical scientific questions surrounding these approaches

2.) Minimise risk by design

3.) Engage with, and respect local communities

4.) Be transparent, open and honest at programme and project level

5.) Communicate proactively

6.) Remain cognisant of the broader implications of research

7.) Be willing to adapt to lessons learned

8.) Adhere to our well-defined framework for responsible research.

The programme's independent oversight committee, made up of international experts, is designed to strengthen the governance of the programme. 

Basically, ARIA wants to fund geoengineering technologies that are designed to responsibly and artificially cool the earth.

According to the Guardian, the U.K. government through ARIA will fund £50 million ($66.65 million USD) of geoengineering, most particularly solar geoengineering also known as solar radiation management:

 

Here's a quote from the article with my bolds: 

"UK scientists are to launch outdoor geoengineering experiments as part of a £50m government-funded programme.

The experiments will be small-scale and rigorously assessed, according to Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), the UK government agency backing the plan, and will provide “critical” data needed to assess the potential of the technology. The programme, along with another £11m project, will make the UK one of the biggest funders of geoengineering research in the world."

Here is a graphic showing five methods for solar radiation managemen from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA:

While the prospect of sun-dimming technology is rather frightening given that the negative repercussions could be catastrophic, a look back in time to 1975 shows us just how unscientific climate science really is:

As reported in Newsweek in 1975 (thanks to Tony Heller for the link), climate scientists were concerned about global cooling:

"There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically.

The evidence in support of these predictions (drop in global temperatures that have led to a shortening of the growing season) has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard pressed to keep up with it.

The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earths climate seems to be cooling down.  Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions.  But they are almost unanimous that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century."

...a study released last month by two NOAA scientists noted that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3 percent between 1964 and 1972." 

My how things have changed over fifty years.  In the mid-1970s, apparently climate scientists were extremely worried about global cooling and were looking at solutions like melting the arctic ice caps to increase the world's temperatures and stated that if planners delayed, it would be more difficult to cope with that particular version of climate change.  Now, five decades later, climate scientists are grasping at technological straws in an attempt to cool the planet down by experimenting with the earth's atmosphere to reduce solar radiation. 

Perhaps, it would be best if mankind just let nature act as it always has; unpredictably and in cycles.  Rather than trying to control nature, it would be wise to let the climate change as it has for millennia (and much longer) without interfering with natural processes by using technology with unknown short-, medium- and long-term consequences.  Unfortunately, the decision makers that are funding these experiments with our tax dollars have no clue whatsoever about climate science...or any science for that matter.

Canada's Mainstream Media Bias During the 2025 Election

There is little doubt that Canada's dinosaur media is politically biased in favour of the ruling Liberal Party and a recent story that appeared on the CTV website is further proof that Canadians are being subjected to a steady diet of anti-Conservative, anti-Poilievre propaganda.

Here is the "news" article:

Here's a quote from the first part of the article by Joanna Lavoie with my bold:

"An Elections Canada worker who allegedly encouraged voters to vote Conservative outside of an advanced polling station in York Region over the weekend will “not be present at any EC office or polling place,” a spokesperson for the non-partisan agency says.

“We always take allegations of partisanship seriously. When allegations are raised, we look into them. Measures have been put in place by the Returning Officer to ensure election workers continue to remain non-partisan,” Diane Benson, of Elections Canada, told CTVNews Toronto.ca in an email.

“The integrity of the electoral process, and the perception of its integrity, are our priority.”

Benson added that “out of an abundance of caution” they’ve also referred this file to the Commissioner of Canada Elections, which is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Canada Elections Act.

The incident in question occurred over the weekend at a polling station in the King-Vaughan federal electoral district at Teston Village Public School, near Jane Street and Teston Road, in Maple, Ont.Nadeem Mahmood, a spokesperson for the riding’s Liberal candidate Mubarak Ahmed, told CTV News Toronto that he was working as a scrutineer at that location last Friday when the “breach of public trust” occurred.

“What has happened is very concerning. It’s unacceptable,” he said.“Targeting voters in a particular language, for example, to promote a specific party, of course, is not only unethical, it borders on voter manipulation as well.”Mahmood said he’s aware of six to eight voters in the lineup who reported that a female employee there was “going around and telling selected people to vote for [the] Conservatives.” 

Elections Canada workers at Canadian polling stations are required by law to refrain from partisan political activities during the election period.

Given the tone of the article, one would think that only the Conservatives are responsible for electoral misbehaviour.  However, if you take the time to read further down the article, you'll find this: 

"The spokesperson did, however, say they’re “aware of a situation in Milton East–Halton Hills South where an Elections Canada worker was encouraging people to vote Liberal at a polling station, which we reported to Elections Canada.”

Elections Canada confirmed to CP24 that it is “aware of the situation,” adding that they “always take allegations of partisanship seriously.” “When allegations are raised, we look into them. Measures have been put in place by the Returning Officer to ensure election workers continue to remain non-partisan,” a spokesperson wrote in an email.

“Out of an abundance of caution, we have also referred the file to the Commissioner of Canada Elections, which is the office responsible for ensuring compliance with the Canada Elections Act and investigating potential contravention.”

Given that bit of news, why is it that the headline didn't read "Elections Canada workers under investigation for urging early electors to vote both Conservative and Liberal at Ontario polling stations" rather than just highlighting the misdeeds of a worker promoting the Conservative candidate at a polling station in the King-Vaughan riding?  Since most people don't read beyond the headlines in today's world, it is highly unlikely that they would realize that a pro-Liberal Elections Canada employee would be guilty of the same "sin" as their pro-Conservative peer.

This and other examples of biased reporting certainly makes it appear that the Liberal government's policy of buying Canada's mainstream media has been highly successful during the 2025 federals election.

Can Government-funded Technology Solve Canada's Automobile Theft Crisis?

While Canadians are distracted with the 2025 federal election, the Carney Liberal government recently posted this news release on the government's Transport Canada website:

The Minister of Transport and Internal Trade and on-again, off-again Liberal candidate Anita Anand, announced that the Government of Canada would be providing funding of $1.1 million to eight innovative projects that are aimed at reducing the rampant theft of automobiles in Canada. 

Let's look at how significant automobile theft is in Canada.  According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, here are the auto theft statistics from 2018 to 2023:

Here is some background on the issue:

1.) Between 2018 and 2023, auto theft claims costs have increased significantly across the country:

2.) Nationally, auto theft claims costs increased by 254%.

3.) In 2023, auto theft losses amounted to over $1.5 billion, an increase of nearly 20% from 2022 (the year that held the previous record).  The previous four-year national average, between 2018 and 2021, was $556 million.

4.) The crisis is most significant in Ontario, where auto theft claims costs increased by 524% between 2018 and 2023, surpassing $1 billion for the first time in 2023. IBC will be releasing province-specific data on auto theft claims costs in the coming weeks.

So, what is the Carney government's solution to the problem?  Technology and not the kind of technology that will intercept vehicles that are about to be exported from Canada, rather, the type of technology that will be installed in your vehicle.  Here are the eight proposals that are being funded by Canadian taxpayers:

1.) Smartphone-based security using biometrics and proximity detection;

2.) Locking devices using artificial intelligence (AI) monitoring;

3.) A system to replace a vehicle’s starter relay;

4.) Fingerprint authentication;

5.) AI-powered steering wheel locks;

6.) Sensors with gesture recognition;

7.) A smart key fob protector; and

8.) Miniaturized devices that could disable vehicle components should theft be detected.

Now, let's keep in mind that Mark "Climate Change" Carney is a one-trick net zero pony and that should he become Canada's elected Prime Minister, could ultimately impose restrictions on Canadians who insist on driving those nasty internal combustion engine vehicles.  If you look at the technologies that have been selected for further research by the Liberal government, you'll notice that a significant proportion of them have the capability to remotely disable a vehicle.  For instance, should a Climate Change Carney government decide that ICE vehicles are only to be driven certain days of the week or within a certain distance of your residence (think 15 minute city), what would stop them from using some of these technologies to prevent you from driving your vehicle?  Remote vehicle shutdown technology already exists and is used for fleet management, theft prevention and asset tracking and has the following capabilities:

1.) Remote Vehicle Immobilization: Allows users to remotely disable a vehicle's ignition. 

2.) Remote Vehicle Shutdown Technology: Allows law enforcement officers to turn off a vehicle remotely. 

3.) Remote Vehicle Disabling Systems: Can prevent an engine from starting, prevent movement of a vehicle, and to stop or slow an operating vehicle. 

Law enforcement agencies already have remote vehicle shutdown technology as shown here:

Now, let's go back to car theft in Canada.  According to this article in Queen's Park Briefing, Canada inspects less than 1 percent of outgoing containers at Canada's ports.  Is it any wonder that there is an automotive theft problem in Canada?  And somehow, the government thinks that they've made progress by intercepting 1806 stolen vehicles in 2023, roughly 1.6 percent of the 114,863 vehicles that were reported stolen that year.

While the Canadian government is trying to convince the public that it really is concerned about the rampant theft of vehicles in Canada and that the issue can be solved by implementing advanced in-vehicle technologies, in fact, in the hands of an authoritarian government, these technologies could be used to lock Canadians out of their most important mode of transportation and keep them under lockdown in their 15 minute city.  And, as an added benefit for the government, some of these technologies could be used to track Canadians' every move.

Mark Carney and the Globalist's Solution to Canada's Housing Market Woes

Just over a year ago, this gem was published in Canada's Globe and Mail:

Ini this opinion piece, Canada's current unelected globalist Prime Minister weighed in on Canada's housing market and how Canada could fix its housing market woes at the same time as the nation improved its impact on global climate change.  Given that the Liberal Party has now released its housing plan for Canadians, this article is of particular interest.  Let's look at a few quotes.

Carney opens with this:

"Given the two major concerns for today’s young people – housing affordability and climate change – I believe it is now up to Gen X to follow his (former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney) example and get the job done. After all, climate change and housing affordability aren’t just solvable problems; there are also common solutions that apply to both. Politicians at every level of government should take note and take action."

Thanks to a decade of immigration and economic mismanagement under his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, Canadians of all ages are finding that housing, both for rent and for purchase, is completely unaffordable as demand has outstripped supply, leaving a substantial portion of Canadians living in either substandard housing or on the streets.

With that brief introduction, let's look at some background before we go back to Carney's commentary.  Fortunately for all Canadians, Mr. Carney who has an answer to everything that somehow manages to bring climate change into the equation, served on the federal government's Task Force for Housing and Climate:

While his biography has been scrubbed from the task force's current website, a simple search on Archive reveals this:

...and this:

For a self-proclaimed "outsider", he certainly was proximal to the "inside", wasn't he? 

In March 2024, the Task Force released this report:

 

...which provides a blueprint for a program to add 5.8 million new homes by 2030 to restore Canada's housing market by constructing homes that are "affordable, low-carbon and resilient". 

Interestingly, in the report, Mark Carney signs as a member of Canada 2020, the group that believes that Canada needs to expand its population to 100 million people by the year 2100:

One of the key aspects of the Task Force's recommendations is for the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government to enact laws that would increase the density of housing as quoted here:

"Legalize density in existing communities by eliminating unit maximums on all forms of residential housing and abolishing parking minimums on residential, commercial, and industrial properties, by legalizing the construction of CMHC pre-approved housing designs as-of-right, and by adopting ambitious as-of-right density permissions near transit." 

...and by changing bylaws that would repeal certain municipal policies as follows;

"Create a more permissive land use, planning and approvals system, including by repealing policies, zoning or plans that prioritize the preservation of the physical character of the neighbourhood, and by exempting from site plan approval and public consultation all projects that conform to the Official Plan and require only minor variances.  Revise and update zoning laws to allow the establishment of small-scale retail spaces in residential areas, prioritizing locations that are highly accessible by public transit and conveniently walkable for residents, and waive office space requirements in all downtown building conversions and re-developments.

 And, there's your 15 minute city.

So, in other words, laws need to change to allow for the densification of housing in Canada's urban settings.

The Task Force for Housing and Climate released this report in November 2024:

... which outlined four pathways to housing affordability:

1.) Making home ownership and rent more affordable by cutting building costs.

2.) Keeping property taxes and transportation costs in check by allowing more building in convenient locations.

3.) Lowering insurance and maintenance costs by building sturdier homes in safer areas.

4.) Reducing utility bills with energy-efficient homes.

With that background, let's look at Carney's climate-friendly solution to Canada's housing crisis.  Here's a further quote from his commentary in the Globe and Mail, much of which follows the recommendations of the Task Force:

"...we need to build up, rather than out. Focusing housing growth in cities and communities where there is existing infrastructure such as roads, water lines, libraries and community centres is faster, less costly and more climate-friendly. To enable building in these areas, we need to legalize density. It simply must be easier for a homebuilder to turn a 75-year-old bungalow into a cluster of townhouses, or an aging strip mall into a modern and affordable mid-rise apartment complex. To do that, governments should eliminate unit maximums, abolish parking minimums and allow taller buildings and more density near transit lines “as-of-right.”

So, in other words, let's tear down all of those old inefficient and historical single family dwellings and replace them with high density housing which brings to mind this dystopic vision of the urban future from Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One:

To close, let's look back at a bit of Mark Carney's housing history keeping in mind that he has lived in the Rockcliffe neighbourhood since his return from the United Kingdom in 2020 and declared Rockcliffe as his home neighbourhood in his candidacy paperwork:

In 2012, a $1.3 million home in Canada would have been considered very high end and would have been completely unaffordable by the vast majority of Canadians. 

Just for fun, here's a current listing in the Rockcliffe neighbourhood, the second least expensive single family home currently listed for sale:

Does that look like a "climate friendly" 3600 square foot home to you?  I wonder if Carney would mind if his next door neighbours tore down their houses and put up a few semi-detached homes on their properties?

This is another fine example of two globalist narratives:

1.) rules for thee and not for me.

2.) you will own nothing and be happy.

For untold numbers of Canadians, this is what Canada's current housing market looks like:

Instead of focussing on reducing the climate impact of housing, why doesn't Mark Carney concentrate on helping these unfortunate Canadians find permanent homes that protect them from the weather?

The Century Initiative and the Carney Government

The Century Initiative, a "national non-partisan charity with a mission to enhance Canada's long-term prosperity and resiliency" has a lofty goal for Canada's future as you will see in this posting.  After providing you with a basic understanding of the Century Initiative and we'll look at the connections between one of the political leaders in Canada and this "charity".

The Century Initiative, by its own description is:

"a diverse, non-partisan network of Canadians from the business, academic, and charitable sectors with a shared belief that, with the right approach to growth, we can enhance our economic strength and resilience at home, and our influence abroad."

Century Initiative was founded in 2014 years by a group of "influential Canadian leaders" who came together to champion the "long-term thinking and planning that would shape Canada’s future for the next century. Recognizing the demographic, economic, and security challenges on the horizon.". 

Here is the group's current Board of Directors:

Let's focus on the Century Initiative's Board Chair, Mark D. Wiseman:

This individual is well connected with work experience at BlackRock, the former President and CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the Board Chair at the Alberta Investment Management Corporation and a myriad of other boards/organizations.  We will get back to Mark Wiseman later.

Here's what Century Initiative does:

 Here's who pays to get that work done from the group's 2023 Annual Report:

 

Just in case you were curious, here's what the group's finances look like:

 

And, here's an announcement showing how a member of Canada's mainstream is being used to propagate the group's agenda because it needs a high profile media outlet to propagate its particular brand of propaganda:

 The lobbing group's key goal is to "responsively grow" Canada's population to 100 million people by the year 2100 to "enhance Canada's long-term prosperity, resiliency and global influence".  The group notes that the Government of Canada had (as of 2023) committed to increasing immigrant admissions to 500,000 per year by 2025 – more than doubling the number of admissions to Canada in 2015  The group does note that, while Canadians have historically supported immigration as shown here:

 ...that this may change and that Canada's advantage as a destination for immigrants could change as Canadians grow increasingly concerned about the impact of immigration on:

1.) Access to affordable housing with housing markets being at all-time unaffordalibilty levels.

2.) Public infrastructure and services with a dramatic shortage of health care providers and health care infrastructure.

3.) Economic challenges including high levels of real unemployment and a low productivity rate

The Century Initiative releases an annual scorecard showing how Canada is proceeding on key aspects of the group's vision and compares it to the scores achieved by other nations:

 

When it comes to increasing Canada's population to 100 million, here's what the group says about Canada's progress with my bolds:

"Population growth, immigration and prosperity are at a pivotal stage in this country and around the world.  Canada is on track to reach 100 million people by 2100 and remains a stable, democratic society. However, reaching this target will require a war-time-like effort to support both natural population growth and growth through immigration.

Efforts to safeguard Canada’s future through responsible population growth could be undermined by poor performances on critical indicators like housing affordability, investment in infrastructure and climate change.

Canada’s fertility rate recently fell to a record low and life expectancy fell for the second year in a row. A continued decline in fertility rates would bring far-reaching social and economic consequences in the years ahead, including on labour markets and social services. And while the decision whether or not to have children is highly personal in nature, more robust supports like affordable day care and stronger public education are key inputs to these decisions. The government’s enshrinement of a Canada-wide early learning and child-care system into legislation is an important, arguably transformational, step. 

But more work is needed to increase spaces and recruit and retain the workers necessary for this ambitious program.  Investments in housing, infrastructure, and climate-resilient communities will benefit all Canadians, whether they were born here or not. Building a stronger future means more than just growing our population – it’s about growing well – through immigration, infrastructure investments, economic management, support for children and families, and education.

It’s about preserving Canada’s position on the global stage as a beacon of freedom and opportunity.  It’s about planning for a bigger, bolder, more resilient Canada and working together to get there."

So, in this group's opinion, Canada definitely needs to improve its performance when it comes to meeting the Century Initiative's goal of more than doubling Canada's population over the next 7 decades.

Now, with that background and as promised, let's look at the group's Board Chair, Mark D. Wiseman.  Here is a recent announcement from Mark Carney's government:

 

Mark Carney is bringing the Chair of the Century Initiative into his inner circle as a member of his Council on Canada-U.S. relations.

Not surprisingly, the Century Initiative does have a history of lobbying the Canadian government as shown here:

 ...and here:

 

 

So, basically, Canadians now have a Century Initiative insider as a member of "Team Carney" which would suggest that Canada will continue to open itself to very high levels of immigration that were a key part of the Trudeau government's plans for a post-nation state.  This will mean that Canada's housing market and health care system will continue to be under severe levels of stress with a shortage of both affordable housing and timely health care being part of Canadians' lives for the foreseeable future.

Vladimir Putin on the Western Sanctions Regime and Russia's Response

The West, particularly the United States, has been using sanctions against Russia for many years to force the nation's leadership into toeing what the West refers to as the "international order" with the sanctions regime reaching new levels after the Maidan uprising in Ukraine in 2014.  In a recent address at the plenary session of the 34th annual congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, President Putin addressed this issue and how Russia was coping with the current sanctions environment and would continue to deal with sanctions in the future.  Here are some quotes from his speech with my bolds throughout:

"Let me note that the Russian business community has faced significant challenges over the recent years. We are well aware of this. These include a powerful sanctions pressure, primarily restrictions on international settlements and transactions on external markets. As a whole, these and other challenges are undermining the freedom of trade and investment in the world economy. I will also say a few words about this as an aside.  

Importantly, Russian entrepreneurs have learned to work under sanctions during this period. They have adapted to sanctions, inventing and launching alternative mechanisms for cooperation with foreign partners – those who want to work with us. Besides, sanctions have become an additional catalyst of sorts to positive structural changes in the Russian economy, including in finance and technology, and in many other key spheres."  

Putin goes on to take a deeper examination of the sanctions environment, why the West has imposed them and how severe they are:

 "Sanctions are neither temporary nor targeted measures; they constitute a mechanism of systemic, strategic pressure against our nation. Regardless of global developments or shifts in the international order, our competitors will perpetually seek to constrain Russia and diminish its economic and technological capacities. 

Moreover, whereas the so-called Western elites previously attempted to cloak this confrontation in propriety, they now evidently seem to no longer feel the need to be concerned about appearances, nor do they intend to be. They not only routinely threaten Russia with new sanctions but churn out these packages incessantly. One gains the impression that even the architects themselves have lost track of the restrictions imposed and their targets.

Here, the Ministry of Finance has tallied them. I state with confidence: 28,595 sanctions against individuals and legal entities. This exceeds – by a significant margin – all sanctions ever imposed on all other nations combined."

He goes on to observe that no matter what Russia does, the Western elites will find some excuse to impose even more restrictions as they have done throughout the post-Soviet era:

"Even if there is some gesture from their side – say, they propose to lift or ease something – we can expect that another way will be found to exert pressure, to throw a spanner in the works, as was the case with the well-known Jackson–Vanik amendment. The Soviet Union, against which it was originally introduced, no longer existed, and relations between Russia and the United States of America were at their absolute best, as good as they could possibly be. Yet the amendment continued to remain in force. And when it was seemingly repealed, it was in fact simply replaced with another restrictive instrument against Russia. Recall this: repealed, then supplanted."

Putin states that all that these endless sanctions have done is to destroy the old unipolar world economic order and create a new one: 

"I reiterate: sanctions and restrictions are the reality of the existing new stage of development that the entire world, the entire global economy, has entered. The global competitive struggle has intensified, assuming increasingly sophisticated and uncompromising forms. 

Thus, literally before our eyes, a new spiral of economic rivalry is unfolding, and under these conditions, it is almost embarrassing to recall the norms and rules of the World Trade Organisation, once zealously promoted by the West. Once… When? When these rules advantaged them… As soon as they became disadvantageous, everything began to change. And all these negotiations stalled. And, in fact, no one needs them anymore.

This is evident, and I have emphasised it repeatedly: a return to pre-existing conditions is impossible. We should not anticipate fully unfettered trade, payments, or capital flows, nor rely on Western mechanisms to safeguard investor and entrepreneur rights."

Here he outlines how Russia can fight against the reality of Western-imposed sanctions:

"In these conditions, it is important for Russian businesses to show flexibility, explore new markets, design their own technological solutions, and establish cooperation with reliable partners, there are many of them in the world. Of course, the Government and the regions must provide, and are providing, the required support here. For my part, I will do everything possible to support this process. 

Russia is strengthening its sovereignty in all areas that would ensure the operation of businesses, such as the development of transport, logistics, and financial and payment infrastructure. We are already doing this and will definitely keep doing it.

I know and understand the challenges you are facing, but we will do everything to help you. Let me stress: only those countries that can ensure real, full sovereignty become stable in general and resistant to external pressure, and can progress dynamically in the interests of their people.

Let me give you a clear example. In fact, it is well known, but I will nevertheless use the occasion to say it again. We can see that most European countries have lost their sovereignty, and as a result they have faced serious problems both in the economy and in the security sphere. As for the economy, all of them have near-zero growth rates or are even entering a recession. On the contrary, the BRICS countries and those that wish to join the association understand the benefit of combining potentials, and in recent years they have been leaders in global growth, creating a high benchmark for economic dynamics.

Let me remind you that the GDP growth of the Eurozone was 0.9 percent in 2024, I mean of the “Big Seven” (Why is it big? It is not clear. What is big about it? Wherever you look, you can’t find any of them on the map.) that has the growth of 1.9 percent, while the BRICS has 4.9. In Russia, it was 4.1 for two years in a row – last year and the year before."

As we can see on this map from the World Bank, Russia's GDP growth far exceeded that of the Eurozone as a whole and on a nation by nation basis with rare exceptions:

Let's wrap up this posting with one final quote which looks at Russia's economic future as part of a global trading bloc:

"The so-called Western dominance slipping away, and new global growth centres taking the centre stage is a long-term trend, and I want to emphasise that. Yes, of course, we are fully aware of the advantages offered by our so-called Western partners, such as advanced technology and production process organisation. They have that, it is true. They have achieved a lot. We should respect that and use their best practices, but not copy them.  

We should keep in mind that growth rates in various regions of the world will remain stable over the next several decades. And the fact that we have, to a certain extent, refocused our priorities (not through our fault, by the way) due to a number of circumstances may be a good thing. We are shifting our focus to global promising markets. All things that we need we will get one way or another.  

Of course, this long-term trend will remain unchanged. It will be bolstered up by, among other things, the BRICS development platform that is currently taking shape. It will include resource, technology, personnel, finance, trade and investment components at a whole new level with the use of cutting-edge digital solutions, which will maximize the platform’s effectiveness and keep negative outside interference at bay. 

I very much count on Russian businesses taking an active part in these joint projects with our BRICS partners and future BRICS members."

He also makes it very clear that foreign companies that left Russia in 2022 will be welcomed back to do business in Russia in the future, however, the Russian government is developing a procedure that will coordinate their return with mandatory guarantees of good faith and conscientious business practices.  Foreign companies that left and have now been replaced by Russian businesses will not be given privileges or preferences if they choose to return and that companies who sold their businesses at fire sale prices when they left will not be able to repurchase these assets at the same highly discounted, ultra-low prices.

 Putin closes with this:

"I wish everyone success for the benefit of Russia."