Thank you for posting the Putin speech.
I bought into his very first, plain-spoken speech, before he crossed the UKR border.
Putin named the international provocatons, which UKR was allowing to occur within Ukraine lining up against Russia, and he named the players behind them, He buzzed listeners with some simple Russian history and laid out exactly what he had in mind and where he would execute that plan. Putin surfaced some broken treaties, which dumbed down American education made quite forgettable.
If US were hit with similar provocations, the response would be identical. We’re damned lucky, wherever his words are True, and by the grace of God, that we don’t take a belly wound over this.
No One Has Denied Putin’s Words. They label abd characterize them, but as usual, Non-Denial Denial is the operative chatter.