Can Eurasia and the world ever help the Russian People come back from the cold

 ED: Unlike climate which probably compounded as a crisis every year through second half of my life born 1951, this question needed to be integrated into intelligence of everyone & every year of my life - so argued Von Neumann & Einstein when pretraining Economist Journalists in futures we now call AIGames.solar  chris.macrae@yashoo.co.uk

- so here's a tour down memory lane as we start to prep for Un 2-23-2024 - potentially the greatest make or break year of humanity, and certainly of younger half of world

Dad Norman had served as teen navigator allied bomber command Burma; fortunately to survive he was in Keynes last class cambridge; he was the hired temporarily by The Economist for 40 years; The Economist's centennial autobiography (1843-1943) super editor Geoffrey Crowther sent norman to Princeton NY/UN to learn with Von Neumann through year 1951/2; then next trip to be only journalist to observe 1955 Messina birth of EU; it wasnt unit age 40 The Economist let Norman sign one annual survey; he always wanted to see how people were doing in places that had really concerned him - 

The Most Exciting Example JAPAN 1962 News The Economist. Saturday, 1 September 1962.Pages 53,54. Vol 204, iss... Consider Japan Part 2 Lessons for Developers? The Economist. Saturday, 8 September 1962.Pages 57-61. Vol 204, iss...

so he started in Japan where the vision of 1962 was best for the world; in Russia the peoples future possibility in 1963 were not happy but already US intelligence was exaggerating the economic strength of the continental roof to the old world; perhaps 80% of people life work was taxed going in to arms and state management of all property/utilities; the people were miserable; 

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Changing Russia - Survey led by Norman Macrae The Mustard Seed The Economist. Saturday, 1 June 1963.Pages 16,17. Vol 207, issue 6249. when would a time come to help them escape the awful systems they had got trapped in as the mess of Europes central europe n-s above where the med sea landbridge becomes the tricontient and of the suez canal's connection of Euro and Asia- for those wanting to applaud asian good news, in 1968 china's then quarter of the world's population decided the last economic model they ever wanted was russian or beholden to russia; the sacrifices the chinese made including one child policy were extraordinary but they planted 2 wonderful seeds; by defintion half of all families started beceoming on their smartest young da=ugheters; from 1976 chinese capuatlsim blended 3 d=frsces: along with slowly turning some state organsiations into best world has (eg choiense railways0, vilage small enetrrises connecting women empowerment and most urgent needs - eg rice to end starvation , vilage mediccs rose expoentials rich diaspra particularly from taiwan were invited to make huge inward investments in building cities and infrastructures;

The Economist. Saturday, 25 September 1965. Page 3. Vol 216, issue 6370.

No Christ on The Andes - What's Gone Wrong?  The Economist. Saturday, 25 September 1965. Pages s9-s11. Vol 216, issue 6370.

The German Lesson A survey by Norman Macrae The Economist. Saturday, 15 October 1966. Page s3. Vol 221, issue 6425. Valuing Peace  In 1963, it was almost as great an eyeopener to see how and why Russia was progressing so poorly as it had been the previous year to see how extraordinarily well Japan was sustaining growth ... 20 years later, Norman and Chris Macrae's book on how wonderfullty productive youth of the net generation could be, fully understanding USSR was vital. Macraes argued the whole system would collapse before the end of the 80s and the west should prepare to welcome the peoples of Eastern Europe into vibrant open societies - ending the distrust and fear that made 1945-1984 the most depressing period of government-led arms races ( through taxes costing about 20% of most people's lifetimes in USA and European allies). The failure to be passing on this peace dividend to all our youth today is one of the folly grandeurs of macroeconomics and geopolitics - did we humans really learn nothing peaceworthy from the collapsing systems that engulfed the start of the 20th century? related Valuing Peace

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