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WATCH: Putin Full Speech at Valdai Forum in Sochi | Gaza, Ukraine & EU Relations | AC15 (TRANSCRIPT and linked video)
YOUTUBE ^ | Oct 2, 2025 | Vladimir Putin

Posted on 10/03/2025 2:18:02 PM PDT by ransomnote

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To: ransomnote
---- " NATO is not a friend to the US. NATO is like a group of ticks or leeches living of the lifeblood of Americans, whether it's our taxpayer funds or the blood of our soldiers. They treat us like a host to feed upon."

One member of NATO has again started buying Russian energy products:

"Tupras, Türkiye's largest oil refiner, has resumed purchases of Russian Urals crude oil, trading sources said, marking a shift from its earlier halt on imports following strengthened U.S. sanctions.

According to three trading sources speaking to Reuters and shipping data reviewed once again by Reuters, Tupras restarted imports in April after Urals crude prices dropped to their lowest levels since 2023—comfortably below the G7 nations' price cap of $60 per barrel.

Source: Türkiye's largest oil refiner Tupras resumes Russian crude imports as prices fall below G7 cap Türkiye Today, April 17, 2025

Additional links:

Key Turkish Refinery Gets Back Into Russian Oil Oil Price, 16 April 2025

Exclusive: Top Turkish refiner Tupras resumes buying Russian Urals crude, sources say Reuters, 16 April 2025

Turkey Resumes Oil Imports from Russia Amid Sanctions Finway, Ukraine, 18 April 2025

As one watched headlines, the fact that Europe, NATO member Turkey and these United States ALL are buying Russian products is most interesting, and not covered in most of the noisy news.

If NATO member Turkey is doing as it is, then NATO by degree is not the homogeneous entity it has been said to be recently. Or, viewing the news detailed above, one could say a part of NATO is "violating EU sanctions" or US sanctions....

21 posted on 10/03/2025 3:22:33 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Wuli

Russia was never going to be allowed into NATO, that silliness needs to be dropped.


22 posted on 10/03/2025 3:41:13 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ransomnote

Thanks for posting the transcript. I had posted you tube versions, none of the Ukie war cheerleaders would listen to it.

…But they will not read the transcript either. If they did, they would realize Vlad is the only adult in the room.


23 posted on 10/03/2025 3:48:32 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

Trolls gotta troll! ;)


24 posted on 10/03/2025 4:01:27 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
Putin is a dictator.

He "suicides" his own people.

He is evil.

He is aligned with evil and evil ideologies (Islam).

Russia is not and never will be an ally of the United States.

Russia will never be 'great again' since they were never ever great. Any honest Russian will tell you that.


25 posted on 10/03/2025 4:29:50 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: delta7
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled WATCH: Putin Full Speech at Valdai Forum in Sochi | Gaza, Ukraine & EU Relations | AC15 (TRANSCRIPT and linked video), delta7 wrote:

Thanks for posting the transcript. I had posted you tube versions, none of the Ukie war cheerleaders would listen to it.

…But they will not read the transcript either. If they did, they would realize Vlad is the only adult in the room.

 

 Well, it's important to them that we never post what he says. We're only supposed to read NATO and Leftist interpretations! 


26 posted on 10/03/2025 4:33:54 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The European leaders who jail those who waive the flag or insult immigrants aren’t a problem????
I was just in Turkey and I’d rather live there for 100 years than 3 weeks in Paris or London.
Why don’t you mention all of the NATO nations that just got in bed with the Palestinian state through recognition??


27 posted on 10/03/2025 5:24:42 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

Isn’t that list very long, including Russia and Turkey?

“The State of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign nation by 157 UN member states”


28 posted on 10/03/2025 5:42:09 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ransomnote

Agreed.

29 posted on 10/03/2025 8:43:24 PM PDT by chud
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To: Harpotoo

It is strange how some old accounts stopped posting fir years and then revived either in 2014 or in 2022


30 posted on 10/03/2025 10:13:59 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: ransomnote

Putin’s aim is Make Muscowy a Tsarist empire again, and make me rich.

He has done that fir tge 26 years of his dictatorship


31 posted on 10/03/2025 10:18:09 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

You were in Turkey eh...


32 posted on 10/03/2025 10:19:43 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

I’ll never be able to say it


33 posted on 10/04/2025 2:19:41 AM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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To: ansel12

“Russia was never going to be allowed into NATO, that silliness needs to be dropped.”

Russia, under Putin, was never going to satisfy political requirements to be part of NATO. Had Putin not taken over and true multiparty democracy opened up in Russia, things might have been different.


34 posted on 10/04/2025 7:13:40 AM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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