Posted on 02/28/2022 11:11:04 AM PST by marcusmaximus
A smirking Vladimir Putin today ranted about the West's 'empire of lies' and banned Russians from sending their money abroad from midnight as worldwide sanctions caused the rouble to tumble and sparked a nationwide rush to withdraw cash.
The currency sank 30 per cent in early trading before easing back to stand 20 per cent down. Its collapsing value risks wiping out the savings of ordinary Russians, who have been seen flocking to ATMs all over the country to empty their accounts, including in Putin's home city of St Petersburg.
But as the Russian economy tanked, the Russian President took another swipe at Western sanctions today during an emergency meeting with economic officials at the Kremlin.
'I've invited you here to talk about issues to do with the economy,' he told officials with a smirk, adding: 'I mean of course the sanctions which the so-called Western community - the empire of lies - is trying to implement against our country.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The bullets have been hitting for a full decade. All of the sanctions slapped right now were threatened earlier, and gradually imposed over time, over phony pretexts like Trump collusion.
“The Ukraine girls really knock me out...”
Putin gave a long-azz speech exactly a week ago and he said it out loud, not in some tiny erased-from-internet article.
“In view of the historical destiny of Russia and its peoples, the Leninist principles of state-building were not only a mistake, but far worse than a mistake. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 this became absolutely obvious.
Of course, the events of the past cannot be changed, but we must at least speak about them directly and honestly, without reservations and without political coloration. I can only add that the considerations of the current political conjuncture, however spectacular and advantageous they may seem at a given moment, should not or cannot under any circumstances form the basis for the fundamental principles of statehood.
This is neither the time nor the place to discuss issues of state or constitutional law and to define the concept of citizenship.
Nevertheless, the question arises: why did the country have to be shaken even further under these already difficult circumstances?”
Putin says it out loud, in black and white: ‘You have no ‘state’, you have no ‘sovereignty’, and you have no ‘citizenship’ — other than what I grant you of all of those 3 — so, I’m going to Kiev’.
People in that thread didn’t want to believe it he was going to invade then (or now!).
62 posted on 2/28/2022, 10:02:23 AM by StAnDeliver
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4042342/posts?page=62#62
Paraphrased: “Mother Russia is the union of modern Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Without union, there is no Russia. The West is fading, the East does its own thing, Russia must unite. There is but one Russia; we now defend it from those who would separate it.”
Maybe he has some super Syphilis like Caligula and its in the advanced eat your brain stage.
‘Cause if Canada couldn’t stand it, Russia never will! Errr, something like that…
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Putin gave a long-azz speech exactly a week ago and he said it out loud, not in some tiny erased-from-internet article.
“In view of the historical destiny of Russia and its peoples, the Leninist principles of state-building were not only a mistake, but far worse than a mistake. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 this became absolutely obvious.
Of course, the events of the past cannot be changed, but we must at least speak about them directly and honestly, without reservations and without political coloration. I can only add that the considerations of the current political conjuncture, however spectacular and advantageous they may seem at a given moment, should not or cannot under any circumstances form the basis for the fundamental principles of statehood.
This is neither the time nor the place to discuss issues of state or constitutional law and to define the concept of citizenship.
Nevertheless, the question arises: why did the country have to be shaken even further under these already difficult circumstances?”
Putin says it out loud, in black and white: ‘You have no ‘state’, you have no ‘sovereignty’, and you have no ‘citizenship’ — other than what I grant you of all of those 3 — so, I’m going to Kiev’.
People in that thread didn’t want to believe it he was going to invade then (or now!).
62 posted on 2/28/2022, 10:02:23 AM by StAnDeliver
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4042342/posts?page=62#62
Paraphrased: “Mother Russia is the union of modern Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Without union, there is no Russia. The West is fading, the East does its own thing, Russia must unite. There is but one Russia; we now defend it from those who would separate it.”
One important lesson from the news today. Putin is seeing CCP’s friendship declarations mean nothing. Hopefully we are learning the same, but I fear we won’t
Yeah, we can only hope a hero Russian General puts a bullet in Putin’s head to save the motherland.
Megalomania madman like Adolf. Surprised Putin didnt talk about a 1000 year reign for the restored Mother Russian empire.
Does Putin have cancer and been advised to avoid any contact with other people.
These pics of him by himself and those talking with him with a mile long table separating them is very interesting.
The guy standing in the upper left part of this photo appears to have a black mask on.
You’re a Putin fanboi if you don’t think men can be women...../s
Ziskey rates the Russians...
Putin’s a prussy.
All that’s missing is the “Cone of Silence”.
Spinal cancer, just like his dad.
Amen to that! Also, the amount of virtue signaling is disgusting.
Good, I like seeing Putin in trouble, as long as he doesn’t drop the big one. Keep squeezing.
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