Posted on 10/01/2022 1:40:18 PM PDT by Antioch
I wish every single person in the West would listen to Putin's speech. Obviously, that won't happen so let me summarise as a professional translator for 10+ years. He states, as he has done from the outset, what his intentions and complaints are in the plainest terms possible.
Setting aside his brief comments on the recent "referendums", he spends most of his speech discussing the West. His primary complaint isn't NATO expansion, which gets only a cursory mention. The West is greedy and seeks to enslave and colonise other nations, like Russia. The West uses the power of finance and technology to enforce its will on other nations. To collect what he calls the "hegemon's tax". To this end the West destabilises countries, creates terrorist enclaves and most of all seeks to deprive other countries of sovereignty. It is this "avarice" and desire to preserve its power that is the reason for the "hybrid war" the collective West is "waging on Russia". They want us to be a "colony". They do not want us to be free, they want Russians to be a mob of soulless slaves - direct quote.
The rules-based order the West goes on about is "nonsense". Who made these rules? Who agreed to them? Russia is an ancient country and civilization and we will not play by these "rigged" rules. The West has no moral authority to challenge the referendums because it has violated the borders of other countries. Western elites are "totalitarian, despotic and apartheidistic" - direct quote. They are racist against Russia and other countries and nations. "Russophobia is racism". They discriminate by calling themselves the "civilised world".
They colonised, started the global slave trade, genocided native Americans, pillaged India and Africa, forced China to buy opium through war. We, on the other hand, are proud that we "led" the anti-colonial movement that helped countries develop to reduce poverty and inequality.
They are Russophobic (they hate us) because we didn't allow our country to be pillaged by creating a strong CENTRALISED (emphasis his) state based on Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. They have been trying to destabilise our country since the 17th century in the Times of Trouble (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_T…). Eventually, they managed to "get their hands on our riches" at the end of the 20th century. They called us friends and partners while pumping out trillions of dollars (his irony game is strong today).
We remember this. We didn't forget. The West claims to bring freedom and democracy to other countries but it's the exact opposite of the truth. The unipolar world is anti-democratic by its very nature. It is a lie. They used nuclear weapons, creating a precedent. They flattened German cities without "any military need to do so". There was no need for this except to scare us and the rest of the world. Korea, Vietnam. To this day they "occupy" Japan, South Korea and Germany and other countries while cynically calling them "allies".
The West has surveillance over the leaders of these nations who "swallow these insults like the slaves they are".
He then talks about bioweapon research (haven't heard about them for a while) and human experiments "including in Ukraine". The US rules the world by the power of the fist. Any country which seeks to challenge Western hegemony becomes an enemy. Their neocolonialism is cloaked in lies like "containment" of Russia, China and Iran. The concept of truth has been destroyed with fakes and extreme propaganda.
You cannot feed your people with printed dollars and social media. You need food and energy. But Western elites have no desire to find a solution to the food and energy crises *they* (emphasis his) created.
They solved the problems at the start of 20c with WW1 and the US established dominance of the world via the dollar as a result of WW2. In the 80s they had another crisis they solved by "plundering our country". Now they want to solve their problems by "breaking Russia".
Russia "understands its responsibility to the international community" and will "do everything to cool the heads of these neocolonials who are destined to fail".
They're crazy. I want to speak to all Russian citizens, do we want to replace mum and dad with parent 1 and 2? They invented genders and claim you can "transition". Do we want this for our children?
We have a different vision.
They have abandoned religion and embraced Satanism - direct quote. The world is going through a revolutionary transformation. A multipolar world offers nations freedom to develop as they wish and they make up the majority of the world.
We have many like-minded friends in Western countries. We see and appreciate their support. They are forming liberation, anti-colonial movements as we speak - direct quote. These will only grow.
We are fighting for a fair world for our country. The idea of exceptionalism is criminal and we must turn this shameful page. The breaking of the West's hegemony is INEVITABLE (emphasis his). There is no going back. We are fighting for our "great (as in big), historic Russia". Our values are (irony game crescendo): love of our fellow man, compassion and mercy.
Truth is with us, Russia is with us.
End of thread.
total BS, Russia can be anything it wants to be INSIDE its own borders!
Leave Ukraine and then govern your country how you wish, end of story.
The current world order is bad. Very bad.
My continuing position is that we don’t have a dog in this fight and that sending weapons to Ukraine is a mistake.
But, as this struggle goes on, and as I see the people lining up on one side another, it solidifies my sense of what is happening.
I’ll say it plain: I support Putin over Biden.
Just after the WW2 Tehran Conference, Stalin said to a journalist, (roughly translated):
"It's high time the Slavic race was in charge of Europe."
Putin is channeling Stalin, and hopes to succeed where Stalin failed
Never forget that modern-day Russian culture is largely derived from the Mongol hordes who over-ran the region in the 13th century. They never really left.
You're not Russophobic if the Russians really are out to get you.
He should find a receptive audience in the American left.
Exactly. What this speech wlso did was expose the Causus Belli discussed by the Putin puffers here and elsewhere to be tge bullshit some of us have caled out as bullshit from the get-go.
45 minutes and not one word about neonazis in the Donbas, not one word about Ukraine joining NATO.
It’s all about his butt-hurt over the end of the Soviet Union, the loss of status Russia experienced with the independence of its former vassals, and them choosing NATO and Europe over the bupkiss Russia was offering as an alternative.
The most impressive thing I’ve seen come out of Russia in the last five years is an awesome recreational ATV that Matt Leblanc was driving on BBC Top Gear. Broadcast went out this evening, by the way.
Remember, Hitler claimed to be defending European civilization against the Bolshevik menace, and promised the Germans "freedom and bread".
The purpose of you being home-invasioned, beaten, relatives killed and your property taken is because your banker called the thugs a bad word. It will also prove they’re not in charge of things.
Use morality without labels or bigotry. Things are easier to understand.
It’s not the United States that’s gone rogue. It’s the current group in charge of LE, the legislature and the executive decisions. Also, it’s not the names every day in the news. Those are the willing stooges to take the hits in the name of this religion.
You really need to start looking at what is transpiring without your rose-colored glasses on. Evil is on the march.
“The West is greedy and seeks to enslave and colonise other nations, like Russia. The West uses the power of finance and technology to enforce its will on other nations. To collect what he calls the “hegemon’s tax”.
To this end the West destabilises countries, creates terrorist enclaves and most of all seeks to deprive other countries of sovereignty. It is this “avarice” and desire to preserve its power that is the reason for the “hybrid war” the collective West is “waging on Russia”. They want us to be a “colony”. They do not want us to be free, they want Russians to be a mob of soulless slaves - direct quote.”
LOL. Of course. It’s our fault.
And in the meantime, Putin’s closest friends and allies are suffering fatal accidents.
Russia is not my enemy. They are not (or were not, before neocon swine in DC took total control) an enemy to the United States.
I will not be gas-lighted, shamed, or propagandized into it.
We, the world in general, have spent the last thirty years in a golden age. PaxAmericana is the reason the world has globalized, and technology and food has spread to areas that, if left in the old order, would be mere backwaters where disease and starvation rule. America has tired of being the world’s police and we are heading into an era of introspection. This, more than anything, is why Russia was able to invade Ukraine. Especially after America’s disastrous rout in leaving Afghanistan, signaling, if not weakness than poor leadership. That was the signal that spurred Putin into action.
America still wants out, but, apparently, as long as Ukrainians are willing to die than America is willing to provide the weapons. Win, lose or draw, I think America has already gone home. It will be interesting to see what the next Congress does in funding.
Without American power the world is going to fall back into a bunchy of feuding empires. The Ukraine war is just the first. Soon starvation will cause Egypt to attack other countries who are beginning to tap the Nile’s waters that flow through their lands. The Chinese will want to secure oil closer to home. India will do whatever it is India wants. Russia will, also win or lose, fall into a new dark age.
exactly! evil is on the march! What Reagan dubed the “evil empire” of Russia is on the march in innocent Ukraine.
“Putin is channeling Stalin, and hopes to succeed where Stalin failed.”
This should be interesting. Soros is channeling Hitler, and hopes to succeed where Hitler failed.”
Oh please. You do remember all the videos of McCain, Graham and democrats over in Ukraine talking to their military trying to urge them to attack Russia?
There are people just like the ones I mentioned above doing the same that McCain and crew were doing in Ukraine, in other countries trying to mess with their elections and ignite color revolutions.
The idea that Russia can sit there and assume that no other country is going to undermine them is pretty darn naive.
It's okay to do that if (a) you're Russia; and (b) you make some elaborate and contrived pseudo-historical argument that the other country has no right to exist in the first place.
Personally, I am not big on instigating nuclear world war over:
1: the 143rd border change in “The Ukraine” (which means “The Borderland” in all local languages, and was NEVER a sovereign nation before 1991 and the breakup of the USSR), and
2: To force every nation on earth to accept teachers teaching perversion to children, encouraging them to “switch genders,” with chemical sterilization and gender mutilation pushed hard for all the little ones, the wishes of their parents be damned.
Who said this? Not Joe Biden, or Macron, or Trudeau, etc etc:
“Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. Now I would like to return to what I said and want to address also all citizens of the country – not just the colleagues that are in the hall – but all citizens of Russia: do we want to have here, in our country, in Russia, “parent number one, parent number two and parent number three” (they have completely lost it!) instead of mother and father? Do we want our schools to impose on our children, from their earliest days in school, perversions that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want to drum into their heads the ideas that certain other genders exist along with women and men and to offer them gender reassignment surgery? Is that what we want for our country and our children? This is all unacceptable to us. We have a different future of our own.
“Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” – pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” These poisonous fruits are already obvious to people, and not only in our country but also in all countries, including many people in the West itself.”
[No wonder the Woke LGBTQIA+ U.S. military can’t meet recruiting goals: nobody wants to fight for Globo Homo, to fly the LGBTQIA+ flag over the world.]
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