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.

[eyedigress]

You did.

[Norski]

There is a fast powerpoint condensation of the lecture here:

https://www.jamesjpn.net/war/is-the-war-in-ukraine-part-of-the-great-collapse-before-the-great-reset/

[Norski]

Norski = Glutton for punishment.

[jonrick46]

"Not our fight."

Is that your thinking when China shows signs of invading Taiwan?

This poetry describes universal truth:

"For Whom the Bell Tolls," from “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions” written in 1624.

by John Donne

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

[libh8er]

He is appealing to a small subset of FR who are already very receptive to him. Them and other conspiracy groups.

[eyedigress]

You are seeing something.

A glutton for punishment is just a learning curve.

[libh8er]

He knows what the talking points among this group are. He is hammering on them in the hopes his support will expand beyond just that group.

[eyedigress]

The Bell Tolls for you.

Run off and fight for Taiwan if you wish.

[eyedigress]

It is a promise you are going home.

:^)

[jonrick46]

Right now Taiwan produces 50% of the worlds microchips that are critical to the functioning of mobile phones, consumer electronics, cars, military equipment and more. Only stupidity would allow China to control that. You run along and try not to get ran over.

[eyedigress]

Only stupidity would allow China to control that.

What? You blame me for that? Get your head out of your ass.

[.44 Special]

All of what you say may be true. It, however, does not mean that Putin is not telling the truth in what he says about the West. Do you deny what he said?

[Norski]

Yes. Our gold has been stolen; our currency debased; our treasury looted by our leaders; our production base transported overseas; our borders destroyed; our people weakened with drugs, illegal and legal; our families and morals destroyed; the Creator mocked, and His Son denied.

Under judgement now.

[jonrick46]

You would allow China to control Taiwan. Who is paying you?

[eyedigress]

Prayer is all we have.

The USA needs to be self-sufficient.

Trump knows it. The secular world, not so much.

It should explain some of my previous posts.

[eyedigress]

It isn’t my fight.

Do you want to order the 101st to Taiwan to fight the China Man?

[ExGeeEye]

Russia had no business invading Ukraine.

So, any arguments to justify it are invalid.

This is correct.

Regardless of the purely internal characteristics of a sovereign nation, as long as they keep their naughties "in house", any other nation attacking it militarily, especially with the goal of territorial expansion, automatically becomes the "bad guy", and any defensive action, including counter-invasion, is justified.

[Celtic Conservative]

No, he’s not wrong about corruption in western democracies. But I think he needs to pull the plank out of his own eye before he worries about the sliver in ours.

CC

[Norski]

Simon Khorolskiy – God Be with You – Бог с тобой доколе свидимся

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGWOKT7Hfvs

Russian-American singer with family members
cc in English

[Soul of the South]

“Putin came to power by murdering Russians”

Have you considered the American blood on the hands of US presidents? The number of strange deaths with ties to the Clintons. The possibility Franklin Roosevelt allowed Pearl Harbor to happen so he could justify the war he wanted. Roosevelt may have also been involved in the assassination of Huey Long, a political opponent. He also interned thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent.

President Harry Truman used nuclear weapons to destroy two Japanese cities, purposefully targeting the civilian population. The decision may have resulted in a faster end to the war, but was it moral?

Abraham Lincoln and his generals committed atrocities against civilians in the US Civil War that make Ukraine civilian casualties look like a picnic. Sherman’s “March to the Sea” was a purposeful and brutal assault on the civilian population of Georgia, not a military battle between two armies. Ukraine is a former Russian state Putin is trying reunite with mother Russia. Weren’t the Confederate states breakaway states which Lincoln invaded and subjugated, to restore the “union” with horrendous loss of life?

LBJ may have been involved in the assassination of his predecessor and certainly had no qualms about killing over 50,000 US citizens in Vietnam, a country which represented no threat to the US homeland. What was achieved by the blood shed by Americans to benefit to the people of the US?

Consider also the thousands American citizens who die every year at the hands of illegal immigrants due to the open borders policies of several recent U.S. presidents. Isn’t the failure of these presidents to protect the border directly responsible for these deaths?

President McKinley used the explosion of the battleship Maine to get the US in a war with Spain. Was that a false flag operation by McKinley? Andrew Jackson was a bloodthirsty Indian fighter before becoming POTUS. Remember the “Trail of Tears” and the Native Americans who died on a forced March from their homes in the eastern US to Oklahoma at the orders of a U.S. president.

Recall the Middle East wars of Bush father and son which killed and maimed how many thousands of US citizens over three decades? What was the positive outcome for our nation and its citizens? Most recently, what about the botched exit from Afghanistan ordered by Joe Biden to fulfill a campaign pledge? Doesn’t he have the blood of American citizens on his hands? Obama and Hillary’s actions related to Benghazi needlessly spilled the blood of Americans.

Putin may be a murderer but he isn’t alone. If you are arguing in favor of a U.S. policy to force a regime change in Russia due to Putin’s crimes, are you also supporting the US taking action to force regime change in China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea and every other nation whose leaders are involved in murder? Please explain why the US should be the police force for the world when we won’t even preserve the integrity of our own border? Even more significant, given our history how can we claim the moral authority to selectively interfere in conflicts between other nations?