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.
“So in other words, Russia has been encircled by countries with our military bases and in the case of Ukraine, bioweapons labs.”
I assume you don’t know that NATO was established as a defense organization, initially as a defense against the Soviet Eastern Bloc that included East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, as well as the allied states of Yugoslavia and Albania. Look at a map from 1949; and tell me who surrounded who. All those countries named were COMMUNIST countries, but before WWII they were NOT. In 1945 the USSR began its absorption of those countries into the Soviet family. NATO’s immediate creation was because of THAT.
And, do you know what’s ironic? When the Soviet Union collapsed and dissolved in 1991 every single one of those countries -— with the exception of Yugoslavia — joined NATO, because they knew the Russians, and they knew what life was like under Russian domination, and they wanted no more of it!”
“Would you have a problem with Russia putting military bases in Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean?”
Well, Russia DOES have military bases in the Caribbean (principally, Venezuela and Cuba). But as long as those bases are not used for offensive operations, we won’t squawk. We DID squawk in 1962, though, when Russia set up OFFENSIVE NUCLEAR missiles in Cuba with the ability to wipe out the entire mainland US except for a small corner of the Pacific Northwest.
Your inclusion of Mexico and Canada is laughable, and is not to be taken seriously.
A big BUMP to you.
Wing nut.
Well I advise you to warn the US government and the EU to also get out of the Ukraine because that’s who’s ruling what’s left of it after Putin freed the Donbass. They are the NWO.
That’s not, of course, what you said in your post. You said Russian areas, which is the same as Russian territories. You did NOT say Russian-speaking areas, or areas with ethnic Russians, which is the reality. Those areas were UKRAINIAN; they were in UKRAINE; and the people were UKRAINAIN citizens, regardless what language they spoke or cuisine they ate.
“Crack a book and read the history of the region.”
I’ve read more books than you can count. Hell, I have 7,000 books in my house today, and a library down the road which I regularly frequent. I LOVE reading! I’ve been an avid reader of history ever since I was a little kid, and I am now in my 70s. My university degree is in history. So don’t talk to me about reading.
“Watch Ukraine on Fire and verify it in your own research.”
The Oliver Stone film? I saw it a couple years ago.
“Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact were subdivisions of the United Nations. Support for either is support for the UN.”
Funny, though, that neither were ever included in its organizational chart. Why is that?
“But was it cheating? Or gaming the system.”
That is often a difference without a distinction.
You can’t refute my comment, so you dismiss it out of hand, and call names. And then run away.
I am not surprised.
Well you boys were awful good at flying away after you sprayed agent orange on us so...
I guess your pretty good at running and hiding.
Sadly there are a lot of woke Texans, I am sorry to say.
Putin’s speech reminded me of the speech Stephen gave just before the Sanhedren stoned him. The first martyr in the Bible. Stephen was calm and measured and went through the history of the Jews up until the time of Jesus, in which he ended with the fact that the Jews rejected him and crucified him. It stung with the truth. So much so that the Jewish leaders had foaming at the mouth brain embolisms of anger, immediately rushing him out to be stoned. The only difference here it will be Putin who has said the truth and set tongues wagging and it will be he who does the stoning of the ‘Sanhedren’ (the West and NATO).
Bump
“Isn’t it sad when entire people groups vote to secede?”
Troll
I think the west has been off it’s pedestal for a long time. Have you been living in a hole on the ground?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkZyTAZc38M
Please explain your point.
“Well you boys were awful good at flying away after you sprayed agent orange on us so...I guess your pretty good at running and hiding.”
Well, then I guess so was the US Army, such as the 336th Aviation Company (AHC). They sprayed, as well.
You see, when you paint with a broad brush, you color more than you intended.
“Well, then I guess so was the US Army, such as the 336th Aviation Company (AHC). They sprayed, as well.”
Where did I say the army did not?
“Where did I say the army did not?”
Then why didn’t you include the Army in your comment? You singled out the Air Force, exclusively. And, I’d say, intentionally.
So, why didn’t you include the Army?
You want some cheese with that?
What weapons are you talking about? Putin has used pretty much every weapon he has except his nuclear arsenal.
Wouldn't it be a sign of total weakness if the only way Russia could defeat Ukraine was by using nuclear weapons?
And Putin would have to be beyond dumb to use nuclear weapons on a neighboring country. That might lead to other nuclear powers supplying tactical nuclear weapons to Ukraine, or taking other decisive actions to end Putin's regime.
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