“One has to wonder whether the Russians can see through these shabby lies...”
Plenty of Americans can’t.
“Putin argued that Ukraine was in fact Russian and all of its inhabitants were Russian.”
Then Putin is just genociding his own people rather than genociding others, which kind of makes it worse.
But of course Ukraine is not Russia, by act of RUSSIAN parliament.
▪️I speak at a difficult and milestone time for Russia, at a time of cardinal changes all over the world;
▪️Step by step, we will carefully and consistently solve problems within the framework of the SMO;
▪️Donbass believed and waited for Russia to come to the rescue;
▪️Russia did everything possible to solve the problems of Donbass by peaceful means.
▪️The promises of the West about striving for peace in the Donbass turned into a cruel forgery and lies, these countries were engaged in chicanery;
▪️Western countries trained officers of the Ukrainian national battalions and supplied weapons, Kiev negotiated with the West on the supply of weapons before the SMO;
▪️The Ukrainian regime did not solve the problems of Donbass, but simply played for time, committed political assassinations, and mockery of believers;
▪️Kiev made attempts to get nuclear weapons;
▪️About the countries of the West: the method of deception was tested by them before, they cannot be washed off from shame, and the concept of honor is not for them;
▪️Russia firmly defends not only its own interests - the world should not be divided into "civilized" countries and the rest;
▪️Western elites have become a symbol of total unprincipled lies;
▪️The Russian Federation was open to a constructive dialogue with the West and for many years offered to work on a joint security system;
▪️No other country in the world has such many military bases abroad as the United States has - there are hundreds of them, and the whole planet is covered;
▪️ They decided to hide behind an umbrella from us (on actions to expand NATO);
▪️Russia received a direct refusal on all its fundamental security proposals;
▪️By February 2022, it became obvious that everything was ready for the next punitive action of Kiev in the Donbass;
▪️It was they who unleashed the war, and we use force to stop it;
▪️We protect our homes and people's lives, and the goal of the West is unlimited power;
▪️About spending the West on the war: "Where is the talk about the fight against poverty?"
▪️Those who planned attacks on Donbass planned Crimea and Sevastopol as their next target; The West has already spent more than $150 billion on aiding Kiev and supplying it with weapons;
▪️It seems that the accusations against Russia are to make everyone forget what the West has done by plunging entire regions into chaos
▪️On the politics of the West: trillions of dollars are at stake and the ability to continue to rob everyone, planting totalitarian principles
▪️The West in the 1930s opened the way for the Nazis to power in Germany, and in our time makes Ukraine "anti-Russia"
The guys a dirtball.
He has committed WAR CRIMES and Crimes against humanity.
He again accused Ukraine of being run by nazis.( bastard)
He claimed Ukraine declared war on russia.
AFAIC, i hope someone puts a bullet in him manually.
Politics ends at the waters edge.
“Putin insisted that the West have been the aggressors and that Putin’s invasion was in fact a defense of the motherland.”
He is talking about color revolution, and the plan to establish military bases to wipe out Russia. In his mind he is defending his country against those things.
As I’ve said for many years, Ukraine will not be in NATO. This attempt to put it into NATO is fatal to Ukrainian statehood.
Thanks to Obama, Biden & Nuland.
You may read yourself not just some media hearsays.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70565
Is murdering over 14,000 Russian speaking citizens in the eastern provinces of Ukraine at the hands of the Ukraine Nazi battalions not reason enough?
There’s no genocide — by either combatant.