Posted on 02/22/2022 10:42:45 AM PST by Regulator
Putin has his own take on the history of the area known as "Ukraine" which has been the ancient Yamnayan lands, Kievan Rus about a millennia ago, and then successively Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Ruthenian, etc etc until the last century when he notes that the founders of the USSR essentially created Ukraine as an autonomous SSR, bestowing it a unique character that it did not have before.
It's clear from his perspective that it mostly should be Russia and that the USSR discarded a portion of Russia to create an administrative unit which then took on national character that he believes was unwarranted.
Many people living West of the Dnieper would disagree, but not everyone.
Regardless, in the name of trying to understand where he's really coming from, posting this rather then having to read through the laundered versions from the likes of AP, BBC, Reuters and other neo-Soviet claptrap operations.
This is all bad. And at the time when we have the most incompetent/evil government in charge here. Lord help us. And I mean literally.
Putin ping. Just FYI.
Many will characterize as self serving twist on history justifying unjustified military action. Probably so. But can any of us imagine the crooked husk of a “President” that we have presenting such a speech?
The worst thing that happened with the Mau-Mauing of Donald Trump from 2017-2020 was the loss of the opportunity for two such individuals to meet and try to formulate a real solution to this, ultimately including the people who now wear the mantle of “Ukrainians”.
But the Rat party destroyed that opportunity with their rabid lust for power. And with it, perhaps a chance for a stable, semi-unified Europe that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Oh Well.
Kremlin approved translation - bump for later...
Thanks, I couldn’t find a whole transcript of the speech in Western media, only excerpts.
It’s only missing the terms “Lebensraum” and “1,000-Year Reich,” but perhaps that’s just the English translation.
I read somewhere in the news that the Finnish president, who has been a close long-time observer of Putin, thinks he has somehow changed psychologically recently and become unbalanced.
That’s the problem with these de facto “presidents-for-life” like Putin, there’s no easy way for the people to replace them when they go over the edge.
In addition, the United States directly controls the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and the High Anti-Corruption Court. All this is done under the noble pretext of invigorating efforts against corruption. All right, but where are the results? Corruption is flourishing like never before.Second ‘secret Putin palace’ revealed with three-storey spa and beauty parlour and pool
I wanted to read the section about the deliberate starvation of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s but it looks like that part got left out of the translation.
“Ukraina” is Russian for “Sudetenland.”
Yeah. He obliquely blames Lenin and Stalin for “mistakes” in the creation of the Ukrainian SSR, and perhaps we are to intuit that certain other “mistakes” were made by one of them about a decade or so later...
He would be a more honest Russian Nationalist were he to acknowledge that rather large Elephant in the room.
The Anschluss will be televised, apparently
Biden will be stumbling around with that “Sudetenland” Bling on his neck, for his legacy.
“In addition, the United States directly controls the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the High Anti-Corruption Court. All this is done under the noble pretext of invigorating efforts against corruption. All right, but where are the results? Corruption is flourishing like never before.”
And therein is the problem. He has the proof that Biden and many of the US and western politicians have controlled the corruption within that country.
Does anyone reading this disagree that Biden was not involved in Corruption in the Ukraine?
“Does anyone reading this disagree that Biden was not involved in Corruption in the Ukraine?”
I dont know if that came out correctly.
Do you agree that Biden was involved as the central player in the corruption in the Ukraine? As were many western politicians?
I think that the Ukraine, like most of the Russian republics, is abysmally corrupt and the Biden’s simply took advantage of that, like many others. But being the VP of the United Estates gave him a whole lot more leverage then the average oligarch...
True that there is no government on earth that is not corrupt.
In this speech, I see that he is determined to take back the whole of Ukraine. Which I did not think he would do before.
He cant hold it if he does. He may take everything to the Dnieper and try and hold that instead. Or at least a good portion of the eastern Ukraine from say..Kharkiv to Dnipro, which would give him control over the lower Dnieper and a straight line to the Crimea.
“Or at least a good portion of the eastern Ukraine from say..Kharkiv to Dnipro, which would give him control over the lower Dnieper and a straight line to the Crimea”
Think that’s the near term achievable plan in his mind. He has this opportunity known as “Biden” so he can’t let it go.
“Putin has his own take on the history of the area known as “Ukraine” which has been the ancient Yamnayan lands, Kievan Rus about a millennia ago, and then successively Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Ruthenian, etc etc until the last century when he notes that the founders of the USSR essentially created Ukraine as an autonomous SSR, bestowing it a unique character that it did not have before.”
History doesn’t matter.
Boiled down to its essence the only thing that matters is who has the power today and who is willing to use it.
It’s always been so and it will always be so.
Yes, like it or not, we live in a Darwinian world.
Quite a history lesson!
And a justification for his actions.
In tone reminds me a bit of Jeffereson’s declaration, which tried to justify the declaration of American Independence to the rest of the world.
“WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.”
In Putin’s case, it’s to justify a “Reunification” .
I noted that similarity too.
Interesting that he feels he has to “declare the causes which impel them to the Separation”. Of course, he shouldn’t write it, some member of the Donetsk/Luhansk Junta should do so, but I doubt they would be as literate.
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