War in Ukraine, consequences and government measures

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The attack by Putin's Russia on Ukraine has resulted in the third economic crisis on the planet, third after the Great Recession that originated in the USA in and that caused by covid in Fortunately, the governments of the most important countries –due to the weight of the GDP– they learned from the proven fallacy of expansive austerity and rectified it in the second crisis; The central banks rectified, favoring the moderate expansion of the money supply, money became cheaper and made it possible to mitigate some of the consequences of the previous crises that would have given rise to a depression like that of the th year of the last century. Governments, still imbued with cynical neoliberal ideas, forced citizens to endure a decade-long crisis.

And the only defense that these governments in democracies are that part of the citizens supported in the elections parties that practiced austerity, that there were no deficits, that they paid less taxes - neither Argentina Email List of the two things happened -, the one that “the less State the better.” And it is cynical because these right-wing parties – and some extreme right-wing parties – simultaneously did not hesitate to give or ask for aid, million-dollar subsidies to companies and banks in crisis. Hence cynical neoliberalism . In Spain these parties were and are the PP, Ciudadanos and VOX and some right-wing nationalists. And it also happens that there were citizens, salaried and self-employed, who voted and continue to vote for these parties against their economic interests.



Historical position change To focus on Spain, but within this context of reality, ideology and economic policy of the planet, the Spanish government – ​​led by its president Pedro Sánchez – has outlined on March a plan called “national response plan to the consequences of the war in Ukraine.” It is true that they respond to the most disastrous consequence of the third crisis – the one derived from the attack on Ukraine – which is the rise in the price of energy, especially that derived from and as a consequence derived from gas and oil. In quantitative and global terms, the size of the measures is estimated at , million, of which , focus on the extension of the ICO in the return of the principal of the credits granted and , million on aid and subsidies.