Putin's side of the story: Something Putin Said in His Recent Speech Caught My Eye ...

Don Surber Blog ^ | 03/19/2022

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The cable channels have granted Zelensky billions of dollars worth of free air time to sell the public on having Americans finance his war with Russia. So far, he's received commitments to $13.6 billion in U.S. aid, money he will gladly share with the children of congressmen. Anyone who questions this is labeled a Putin puppet.

Well, I have been called worse.

There is another side of the story, weak as it may be. In a speech Power Line called, "The Madness of Vlad the Inhaler," Putin made a Zelensky-style plea to his colleagues. Most of it was BS. There is no rationalization for the invasion. See for yourself.

But this resonated with me: "I want ordinary citizens of Western countries to hear me too: they are now persistently trying to convince you that all your difficulties are the result of some hostile actions of Russia, that you have to pay for the fight against the mythical Russian threat from your own wallet. All this is a lie.

"And the truth is that the current problems faced by millions of people in the West are the result of many years of actions by the ruling elites of their states, their mistakes, myopia and ambitions. These elites are not thinking about how to improve the lives of their citizens in Western countries. They are obsessed with their own vested interests and super profits.

"Evidence of this is the data of international organizations, which directly say that social problems, even in leading Western countries, have only worsened in recent years, that inequality is growing, the gap between rich and poor, racial and national conflicts are making themselves felt."

Putin is using the left's own arguments against the left.

He lashed out at economic sanctions which he has countered by limiting grain and fertilizer exports, which will send soaring food prices even higher. $5 gasoline? Hah. Wait till we have $5 milk.

He pointed out the amorality of the economic sanctions that drew blood.

He said, "All verbal tinsel about political correctness, inviolability of private property, freedom of speech -- all this flew off overnight. Even the Olympic principles were trampled on. They did not hesitate to settle scores with the Paralympic athletes - this is such a sport outside of politics."

That is a reference to a New York Times report, "In Reversal, Paralympics Bars Athletes From Russia and Belarus."

Those cheering the firing of an opera soprano or requiring a Denunciation of Putin Card for a Russian to play at Wimbledon need to realize that they are next. You can never be woke enough because the rules are constantly changing. Tennis champ, Martina Navratilova, a pioneer in lesbian rights, is now an outcast because she dares question transgenderism.

Putin knows this and he plays against it. He lashed out at oligarchs who have been Westernized.

He said, "I am not at all judging those who have a villa in Miami or the French Riviera, who cannot do without foie gras, oysters or so-called gender freedoms. The problem is absolutely not in this, but, I repeat, in the fact that many of these people, by their very nature, are mentally located precisely there, and not here, not with our people, not with Russia."

Of course the cable channels label his nationalism as evil while Zelensky's nationalism is saintly.

I don't think this war will do in Putin or Zelensky. Patriotism rings true in sane countries.

History shows that Russians may be dumb as bears but they do love their country. They call World War 2 the Great Patriotic War. Millions of deaths did not bring Stalin down because he saved the country in the eyes of his countrymen.

Putin is of course KGB. That means he knows of the world outside of Russia. He knows it well.

His line about "so-called gender freedoms" echoes across the globe. Many see Uncle Sam now as a drag queen.

In journalism, there are at least two sides of every story or else it is not journalism.

The collapse of the Soviet Union liberated hundreds of millions of people in Poland, Ukraine and all those Stans.

But the collapse also humiliated the Russian people, just as the World War I reparations humiliated Germany.

Russia had no business invading Ukraine.

We have no business being in Ukraine. But we are up to our necks in it because a corrupt government and its corrupt corporations pay Hunter Biden and other offspring of politicians well.

Writing off Putin's speech as madness may make you feel good and superior, but it also makes you look shallow and weak.

[Williams]

There is little point to listening to a lecture from someone who has demonstrated one of their preferred options is to kill you.

Putin’s impassioned arguments would be more persuasive if they weren’t propaganda cover for an invasion.

[Celtic Conservative]

Putin complaining about corruption and vested interests in western governments is the biggest hypocrite who ever lived. Russia as currently constituted is a borderline kleptocracy.

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[devere]

Putin came to power by murdering Russians https://www.wanttoknow.info/documents/false_flag_russia_bombings.pdf and he’s remained in power the same way. Our #1 goal for settling the Ukraine crisis should be a regime change in Russia. If necessary to save lives let’s give Putin a personal amnesty for his many crimes, but as long as he is the leader of Russia the sanctions should remain.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Putin lover

[pierrem15]

We have no business being in Ukraine. But we are up to our necks in it because a corrupt government and its corrupt corporations pay Hunter Biden and other offspring of politicians well.

These statements are just wrong. Freedom for the captive nations that were part of the Soviet Union was always part of NATO's purpose. Integration of all these countries into NATO (including Russia) was a goal in the 90s, and Yanukovych's rejection of a deal with the EU already approved by Ukraine's parliament that would have started the EU accession process was the reason for the revolt that removed him from power. The framework and movement for integrating Ukraine into the EU and NATO started 25 years ago.

The fact that US office holders and present and former officials milk US aid and foreign assistance programs like a fat teat has nothing specifically to do with Ukraine, as if somehow they aren't going around with their hands out everywhere else as well. From a Ukrainian point of view, making the payoffs was a wise move. But they are hardly the only reason or even the principal reason why the US has been involved in Ukraine, Georgia and most of the rest of the post-Soviet states since the 90s.

[kabar]

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RE: Putin lover

How so?

[LouieFisk]

“History shows that Russians may be dumb as bears but they do love their country. They call World War 2 the Great Patriotic War. Millions of deaths did not bring Stalin down because he saved the country in the eyes of his countrymen.”
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Yup. Just as WW2 deaths, hard times and rationing didn’t lead to FDR being overthrown by the people. People tend to get POed and defensive when their nation is attacked, not docile.

[chuckb87]

You just don’t get it. We cannot coexist with libtards. Putin stated more eloquently than me. I’m more of a to the point kind of person.

[rrrod]

Well said. Who would follow a mad dog killer?

[DannyTN]

Is it a lie that there are 3 million Ukrainian refugees?
Is it a lie that Russia invaded Ukraine?
Is it a lie that Ukrainian cities are being bombed?

We don’t “have to” pay for defending Ukraine. Just like you didn’t “Have to” invade Ukraine. But many of us want to. We would have rather there have been peace, but you removed that option.

[LouieFisk]

“But they are hardly the only reason or even the principal reason why the US has been involved in Ukraine, Georgia and most of the rest of the post-Soviet states since the 90s.”
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It’s about putting US and NATO (same difference) military bases up against the Russian border, akin to prospects we rejected being done against the US in 1962.

[usconservative]

There is little point to listening to a lecture from someone who has demonstrated one of their preferred options is to kill you.

Spot-on. There is NO POINT in listening to someone who says some small sliver of truth in a sea of lies designed to deceive.

Putin is no better than Shitshow Joe. Were this a perfect world, the both of them would be put inside a steel cage and a death match would ensue.

No "winner" would be allowed. they'd simply be locked inside a steel cage and left to die.

This world would be much better off.

[windsorknot]

Russia had no business invading Ukraine.

So, any arguments to justify it are invalid.

[pierrem15]

It’s about putting US and NATO (same difference) military bases up against the Russian border, akin to prospects we rejected being done against the US in 1962.

Not really, as there were no permanent non-local military installations in the new NATO states until recently, after Russia violated both the INF and Conventional Forces Europe treaties. Let alone nuclear weapons.

Russian forces are present in Cuba and Venezuela even now, by the way.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Complete and utter horsefeces

[LouieFisk]

“Putin came to power by murdering Russians”
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Not in the US interests to care or do anything about that, if it were true. Russia’s problem, same with the African strongmen who do the same to their people. We’d be at constant war all over the world if it were our fish to fry.

Plus, there’s enough bad-guyism to go around. Zelinskyy came to power only because his people staged a coup (with US help) in 2014 that overthrew a democratically elected government.

Thus a person can either be a hypocrite due to fandom of their favorite dictator or say “there’s no angelic virgin here” and say pox on all the houses involved.

[Slyfox]

I am reading a book about an American doctor in Russia, just after the fall of the Soviet Union, finding out that Russian girls were being trafficked out of Russia. True story. As she set up her organization to fight it, guess who refused to help her? The American State Department and Embassy which was being directed by George Soros, who at the time was actively working to get prostitution legalized in Russia through an American effort. Putin has been fighting that demon spawn Soros since 1993.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Putin is not the bad guy in this scenario. Cleaning out the NWO from the Ukraine is a really crappy job. Just like Trump having to clean them out of the US. They are embedded in almost every country in the world.