Yeah, that's totally sane and responsible...
Posted on 09/21/2022 2:32:56 AM PDT by Cathi
They have now transcribed the rest of Putin’s speech to English. Here is the second and last part.
At the same time, the regime of reprisals throughout Ukraine against their own citizens, established immediately after the armed coup in 2014, was harshly intensified. The policy of intimidation, terror and violence is taking on increasingly mass-scale, horrific and barbaric forms.
I want to stress the following. We know that the majority of people living in the territories liberated from the neo-Nazis, and these are primarily the historical lands of Novorossiya, do not want to live under the yoke of the neo-Nazi regime. People in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, in Lugansk and Donetsk saw and are seeing now the atrocities perpetrated by the neo-Nazis in the [Ukrainian-] occupied areas of the Kharkov region. The descendants of Banderites and members of Nazi punitive expeditions are killing, torturing and imprisoning people; they are settling scores, beating up, and committing outrages on peaceful civilians.
There were over 7.5 million people living in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions before the outbreak of hostilities. Many of them were forced to become refugees and leave their homes. Those who have stayed – they number about five million – are now exposed to artillery and missile attacks launched by the neo-Nazi militants, who fire at hospitals and schools and stage terrorist attacks against peaceful civilians.
We cannot, we have no moral right to let our kin and kith be torn to pieces by butchers; we cannot but respond to their sincere striving to decide their destiny on their own.
The parliaments of the Donbass people’s republics and the military-civilian administrations of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions have adopted decisions to hold referendums on the future of their territories and have appealed to Russia to support this.
I would like to emphasise that we will do everything necessary to create safe conditions for these referendums so that people can express their will. And we will support the choice of future made by the majority of people in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
Friends,
Today our armed forces, as I have mentioned, are fighting on the line of contact that is over 1,000 kilometres long, fighting not only against neo-Nazi units but actually the entire military machine of the collective West.
In this situation, I consider it necessary to take the following decision, which is fully adequate to the threats we are facing. More precisely, I find it necessary to support the proposal of the Defence Ministry and the General Staff on partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation to defend our Motherland and its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to ensure the safety of our people and people in the liberated territories.
As I have said, we are talking about partial mobilisation. In other words, only military reservists, primarily those who served in the armed forces and have specific military occupational specialties and corresponding experience, will be called up.
Before being sent to their units, those called up for active duty will undergo mandatory additional military training based on the experience of the special military operation.
I have already signed Executive Order on partial mobilisation.
In accordance with legislation, the houses of the Federal Assembly – the Federation Council and the State Duma – will be officially notified about this in writing today.
The mobilisation will begin today, September 21. I am instructing the heads of the regions to provide the necessary assistance to the work of military recruitment offices.
I would like to point out that the citizens of Russia called up in accordance with the mobilisation order will have the status, payments and all social benefits of military personnel serving under contract.
Additionally, the Executive Order on partial mobilisation also stipulates additional measures for the fulfilment of the state defence order. The heads of defence industry enterprises will be directly responsible for attaining the goals of increasing the production of weapons and military equipment and using additional production facilities for this purpose. At the same time, the Government must address without any delay all aspects of material, resource and financial support for our defence enterprises.
Friends,
The West has gone too far in its aggressive anti-Russia policy, making endless threats to our country and people. Some irresponsible Western politicians are doing more than just speak about their plans to organise the delivery of long-range offensive weapons to Ukraine, which could be used to deliver strikes at Crimea and other Russian regions.
Such terrorist attacks, including with the use of Western weapons, are being delivered at border areas in the Belgorod and Kursk regions. NATO is conducting reconnaissance through Russia’s southern regions in real time and with the use of modern systems, aircraft, vessels, satellites and strategic drones.
Washington, London and Brussels are openly encouraging Kiev to move the hostilities to our territory. They openly say that Russia must be defeated on the battlefield by any means, and subsequently deprived of political, economic, cultural and any other sovereignty and ransacked.
They have even resorted to the nuclear blackmail. I am referring not only to the Western-encouraged shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which poses a threat of a nuclear disaster, but also to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – against Russia.
I would like to remind those who make such statements regarding Russia that our country has different types of weapons as well, and some of them are more modern than the weapons NATO countries have. In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us. This is not a bluff.
The citizens of Russia can rest assured that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be defended – I repeat – by all the systems available to us. Those who are using nuclear blackmail against us should know that the wind rose can turn around.
It is our historical tradition and the destiny of our nation to stop those who are keen on global domination and threaten to split up and enslave our Motherland. Rest assured that we will do it this time as well.
I believe in your support.
Putin got right to the point in the first sentence:
"The subject of this address is the situation in Donbass and the course of the special military operation to liberate it from the neo-Nazi regime, which seized power in Ukraine in 2014 as the result of an armed state coup."
Really miss Trump now. This little POS wouldn’t dare try this crap with him.
So Russia can conduct a full scale invasion of beautiful Ukraine, get their army humiliated, and now Ukraine should not shoot back across the border? Ukraine is not going to adhere to that. Ukrainians, including thousands of Russian speakers from the Donbas are going to continue killing Russians and fight to liberate the occupied areas from the criminal pigs and apes.
Putin will wait till after November 8. If the Rats steal the midterms again, then he will use tactical nukes and dare the Biden regime and the Eurotrash to do something about it. WW3 is what the GloboHomos desperately want. It all falls into their plans to have millions killed and nations destroyed to be replaced by a one world government.
Yeah, that's totally sane and responsible...
Unlike the US National Guard who train regularly and can reach professional military level in a few months, the Russian reserves are essentially out of practice.
Essentially they are calling up cannon fodder.
They will face a battle hardened Ukrainian army.
You forgot the Biden red-light-backlit speech from a few weeks ago ALREADY?
And the DHS declaration that right-wing terrorists are the worst threat facing the country?
And the FBI being diverted from child pr0n/trafficking cases to go after MAGA supporters?
You’re either unspeakably non-informed or a troll.
>WW3 is what the GloboHomos desperately want. It all falls into their plans to have millions killed and nations destroyed to be replaced by a one world government.
Whatever the real story on the ground at this moment is, that’s for sure. The people pulling Brandon and Trudeau etc. around want this since the virus game has not produced the desired results and the engineered depression is on the verge of getting all the WEF clones ousted or more by the proverbial pitchfork and torches crowds.
I hope Trump comes out against defending Ukraine…defending Ukraine shouldn’t not be an American goal.
You’re so full of crap it staggers the human mind.
Nothing about a master race or lebensraum or the insidious plotting of the Joooooos.
And come to think of it, both Napoleon and Hitler invaded Russia coming through the Ukraine, right?
So it wouldn’t surprise me if the Russians are a bit touchy about Ukraine (and NATO *cough* “advisors”) attacking towards Russia.
So I have been reading as nauseum here how the war is over for Ukraine, Z is going to flee, Uke army is surronded, cut off, “its over” Uke army is destroyed, its all a done deal...Ukraine as a country is going to disappear in a month...
so why does Putin need this mobilization?
“WW3 is what the GloboHomos desperately want. It all falls into their plans to have millions killed and nations destroyed to be replaced by a one world government.”
Now that right there is kookland conspiracy 101.
What are they wating for? Been told Bidens WANTS wwiii? So why not just press the button?
Germany under Hitler invaded Russia in the past.
Posting a picture of Hitler and trying to say that’s Putin is the literal opposite of the truth.
Sod Off, Troll.
As the speech said, the front is 1000 kilometers long.
Russia cannot defend the current lines with the number of troops and equipment it has now; the more so as the West is denuding its own stores to supply the Ukraine with weaponry.
And, as the old saying goes, appetite grows with the eating, so a Russia that was successful in her attack on Ukraine would be inspired toward further aggression. Notably, Russia has previously demanded that former Warsaw Pact countries like Poland and Hungary et al. be essentially demilitarized and made subordinate to Russian economic and political demands.
As for the NATO alliance being arbitrary and changing, just how do you propose to deal with renewed military threats to the US and other NATO members? Pretend that threats do not exist, or act in the interest of NATO and its members? As it is, Putin was repeatedly warned by the US and other NATO countries not to attack Ukraine.
With Ukraine attacked, perhaps you would prefer for the US and NATO to have said, well, Vladimir, never mind. Just go ahead and consume Ukraine. Please do not be mean to us. No alliance would survive such a demonstration of it ineffectiveness. NATO would be dead and China and other enemies of the US would soon go on the march.
He has already said he is against the invasion.
Cathy “Ukraine has already lost half of its army....Russian losses stand at 5,937 dead.”
Ha ha. And this depleted army still managed to kick Putin’s army out of the area around Kharkiv?!
NATO didn’t declare war.
It is helping a buffer state to prevent Putin’s aggression
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