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.
This thread proves one thing to me..
Putin is orchestrating the Civil War in America. Starting with free republic.
And it’s working.
Bkmk
He’s not entirely wrong. But he could have said all this and provided a strong bulwark within Russia, and not invaded a sovereign country. So, even though he’s partly right, he’s blown the truth out the window with his invasion.
And yes FR repeats, it’s possible to despise Russia/Putin AND Ukraine/Zelenski.
Good point. Another thing the American Left and Putin have in common: wanting a divided west. Because it weakens us.
I already posted the map above, post #28
Yeah, Russia's collapsing.
Go cry with Biden and enjoy your $7/lb butter.
Putin talking about sovereignty is rather hilarious considering that sovereignty is exactly what he is trying to strip from Ukraine.
And the sovereignty of countries that do not have their own source of oil and gas is what he is targeting when he seeks to block the pipelines of other countries. It gives his own country a monopoly, and thus an extortionists’ say in the target’s foreign policy.
That’s a very simplistic view of the international order. Too simplistic.
Personally, I don’t know all the facts, but I do know that as a proud US citizen that loves the Constitution, I can find very little of what he said to disagree with.
He’ll peel off a few lefties and sow doubts in many more by appealing to Russia’s Soviet past with its anti-colonialism and that sort of thing. He is very shrewd to tug at leftist heartstrings by reminding them of the USSR and making that connection. He made sure to include stuff in his speech that will resonate with both Western conservatives and leftists. The guy has serious cunning, that’s for sure. I’m always torn over how much of what he does is mind games and how much is sincere.
The Russians know the western feudal elite won’t leave them alone even if they became a hermit kingdom. Not democratic enough, not homo friendly enough, too resource rich, too big, too etc etc. One day in the future it’s entirely possible that persecuted Christians in the west will seek sanctuary in Russia.
Seems to me your reading far more into Putin’s speech than what he said. I claim bs on your being a “Professional translator”.
But here’s a response...
We couldn’t care less about Russia as long as Russia doesn’t go invading other countries without just cause. In fact, we would have been just fine being trading partners with Russia, as would have Europe.
But then Russia had to go and seize part of Georgia and then Crimea.
“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?“
Well, Putin has a point.
And this differs from the Revolutionary Communist Democrat Party how, exactly?
Bump
“They used nuclear weapons, creating a precedent.”
Well, yes. When we bombed Japan, my father had just finished training for the invasion of Japan. He died in March of 2021, at 94. He told me many times he was afraid of invading Japan, because of their suicidal attitudes and their blind loyalty and brutality. (he was also sick of war)
Fat Man and Little Boy ended the war.
Who forgave the loans that these young college-educated Marxist-leninist types made?Biden supports Putin’s agents in our country and supports the Chinese agents in our universities
Let’s go Brandon.
The current administration IS America and if you don’t believe it you may just get an early morning FBI visit.
Isn’t that also true of us here? How many overseas military bases do we have? How many overseas military bases does Russia have? Does Russia have bases in any NATO countries? Do we have bases in former Warsaw Pact countries?
Why are we doing stuff in Ukraine with biolabs? Why do we support Nazi-aligned military groups who have been shelling Russian areas for 8 years?
According to Russia, weapons labs and Nazis attacking Russian civilians justified their invasion.
According to Bush, chem/bio weapons justified the invasion of Iraq.
Seems to me Russia has a much better case for their invasion, that we had for Iraq. And the Iraq invasion achieved nothing except a bunch of dead ppl and trillions of dollars of debt.
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Leave Ukraine and then govern your country how you wish, end of story.
Meanwhile the US is fighting wars in Asia, well beyond its borders. NATO bombed the snot out of Serbia when Serbia did not attack NATO. Putin is right. The west with its rainbow flags, gender confusion, fear of Christianity, reduction of merit to affirmative action is immoral and corrupt. The deep state stole the election from trump who did not want to go along with this crap.
My father was in disembarked at Kure as a volunteer with the BCOF in Feb 1946. He was already a seasoned soldier, having fought in New Guinea and Borneo. The destruction he witnessed at Hiroshima left a mark on him.He understood the Bombs ended the war, but none the less was not a fan of it. He never liked the fact such destructive weapons were given cutsie names.
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