Posted on 07/23/2023 2:34:50 PM PDT by delta7
Putin held a video conference on Thursday with members of Russia’s Security Council. I hope folks in the West pay attention to what he said, which is why I’m presenting the entirety of his remarks following a presentation by the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service. Based on public source information and Russia collected intelligence, Russia believes that Poland is planning to seize Ukrainian territory west of the Dnieper River as Ukraine’s much ballyhooed counter offensive collapses.
Let me give you Putin’s bottomline up front:
Regarding the policy of the Ukrainian regime, it is none of our business. If they want to relinquish or sell off something in order to pay their bosses, as traitors usually do, that’s their business. We will not interfere.
But Belarus is part of the Union State, and launching an aggression against Belarus would mean launching an aggression against the Russian Federation. We will respond to that with all the resources available to us. Vladimir Putin is not a weak, spineless creature like Barack Obama or Joe Biden. He does not make idle threats and does not succumb to emotion.
So let us start with the briefing by Sergei Naryshkin, Russia’s Intelligence Chief:
Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin: Mr President, colleagues.
According to information provided to the service by several sources, officials in Warsaw are gradually coming to an understanding that no kind of Western assistance to Kiev can support Ukraine in reaching the goals of this assistance. Moreover, they are beginning to understand that Ukraine will be defeated in only the matter of time.
In this regard, the Polish authorities are getting more intent on taking the western parts of Ukraine under control by deploying their troops there. There are plans to present this measure as the fulfillment of allied obligations within the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian security initiative, the so-called Lublin Triangle.
We see that plans also call for significantly increasing the number of personnel of the combined Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian brigade, which operates under the auspices of this so-called Lublin Triangle. If Russia sees Poland starting to mass troops on Ukraine’s border (and do not forget that the United States has deployed at least two armored brigades in Poland), this certainly will capture the attention of the Kremlin leadership. Putin responded at length to Naryshkin’s briefing. This does not read like prepared remarks. He appears to be speaking extemporaneously and draw some very bright red lines for NATO.
Vladimir Putin: Yes. We should elaborate on what Mr Naryshkin has just said. This information has already appeared in the European media, in particular, the French.
I believe it would be suitable in this context to also remind everyone about several history lessons from the 20th century.
It is clear today that the Western curators of the Kiev regime are certainly disappointed with the results of the counteroffensive that the current Ukrainian authorities announced in previous months. There are no results, at least for now. The colossal resources that were pumped into the Kiev regime, the supply of Western weapons, such as tanks, artillery, armoured vehicles and missiles, and the deployment of thousands of foreign mercenaries and advisers, who were most actively used in attempts to break through the front of our army, are not helping.
Meanwhile, the commanders of the special military operation are acting professionally. Our soldiers, officers and units are fulfilling their duty to the Motherland courageously, steadfastly and heroically. At the same time, the whole world sees that the vaunted Western, supposedly invulnerable, military equipment is on fire, and is often even inferior to some of the Soviet-made weapons in terms of its tactical and technical characteristics.
Yes, of course, more Western weapons can be supplied and thrown into battle. This, of course, causes us some damage and prolongs the conflict. But, firstly, NATO arsenals and stockpiles of old Soviet weapons in some countries are already largely depleted. And secondly, the West does not have the production capacities to quickly replenish the consumption of reserves of equipment and ammunition. Additional, large resources and time are needed.
The main thing is that formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered huge losses as a result of self-destructive attacks: tens of thousands of people.
And, despite the constant raids and the incessant waves of total mobilisation in Ukrainian cities and villages, it is increasingly difficult for the current regime to send new soldiers to the front. The country’s mobilisation resource is being depleted.
People in Ukraine are asking a legitimate question more often: for what, for the sake of whose selfish interests, are their relatives and friends dying. Gradually, slowly, but clarity comes.
We can see the public opinion changing in Europe, too. Both the Europeans and European elites see that support for Ukraine is, in fact, a dead end, an empty, endless waste of money and effort, and in fact, serving someone else’s interests, which are far from European: the interests of the overseas global hegemon, which benefits from the weakening of Europe. The endless prolongation of the Ukrainian conflict is also beneficial to it.
Judging by the actual state of affairs, this is exactly what today’s US ruling elites are doing. Anyways, this is the logic they follow. It is largely questionable whether such a policy is in line with the American people’s true, vital interests; this is a rhetorical question, and it is up to them to decide.
However, massive efforts are being taken to stoke the fire of war – including by exploiting the ambitions of certain East European leaders, who have long turned their hatred for Russia and Russophobia into their key export commodity and a tool of their domestic policy. And now they want to capitalise on the Ukrainian tragedy.
In this regard, I cannot refrain from commenting on what has just been said and on media reports that have come out about plans to establish some sort of the so-called Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian unit. This is not about a group of mercenaries – there are plenty of them there and they are being destroyed – but about a well-organised, equipped regular military unit to be used for operations in Ukraine, including to allegedly ensure the security of today’s Western Ukraine – actually, to call things by their true name, for the subsequent occupation of these territories. The outlook is clear: in the event Polish forces enter, say, Lvov or other Ukrainian territories, they will stay there, and they will stay there for good.
And we will actually see nothing new. Just to remind you, following WWI, after the defeat of Germany and its allies, Polish units occupied Lvov and adjacent territories that had been part of Austria-Hungary.
With its actions incited by the West, Poland took advantage of the tragedy of the Civil War in Russia and annexed certain historical Russian provinces. In dire straits, our country had to sign the Treaty of Riga in 1921 and recognise the annexation of its territories.
Even earlier, back in 1920, Poland captured part of Lithuania – the Vilnius region, a territory surrounding the present-day Vilnius. So they claimed that they fought together with the Lithuanians against so-called Russian imperialism, but then immediately snatched a piece of land from their neighbour as soon as the opportunity presented itself.
As is well known, Poland also took part in the partition of Czechoslovakia following the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler in 1938, by fully occupying Cieszyn Silesia.
In the 1920-1930s, Poland’s Eastern Borderlands (Kresy) – a territory that comprises present-day Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and part of Lithuania – witnessed a tough policy of Polonisation and assimilation of local residents, with efforts to suppress local culture and Orthodoxy.
I would also like to remind you what Poland’s aggressive policy led to. It led to the national tragedy of 1939, when Poland’s Western allies threw it to the German wolf, the German miliary machine. Poland actually lost its independence and statehood, which were only restored thanks in a large measure to the Soviet Union. It was also thanks to the Soviet Union and thanks to Stalin’s position that Poland acquired substantial territory in the west, German territory. It is a fact that Poland’s western lands are a gift from Stalin.
Have our Warsaw friends forgotten this? We will remind them.
Today we see that the regime in Kiev is ready to go to any length to save its treacherous hide and to prolong its existence. They do not care for the people of Ukraine or Ukrainian sovereignty or national interests.
They are ready to sell anything, including people and land, just like their ideological forefathers led by Petlyura, who signed the so-called secret conventions with Poland in 1920 under which they ceded Galicia and Western Volhynia to Poland in return for military support. Traitors like them are ready now to open the gate to their foreign handlers and to sell Ukraine again.
As for the Polish leaders, they probably hope to form a coalition under the NATO umbrella in order to directly intervene in the conflict in Ukraine and to bite off as much as possible, to “regain,” as they see it, their historical territories, that is, modern-day Western Ukraine. It is also common knowledge that they dream about Belarusian land.
Regarding the policy of the Ukrainian regime, it is none of our business. If they want to relinquish or sell off something in order to pay their bosses, as traitors usually do, that’s their business. We will not interfere.
But Belarus is part of the Union State, and launching an aggression against Belarus would mean launching an aggression against the Russian Federation. We will respond to that with all the resources available to us.
The Polish authorities, who are nurturing their revanchist ambitions, hide the truth from their people. The truth is that the Ukrainian cannon fodder is no longer enough for the West. That is why it is planning to use other expendables – Poles, Lithuanians and everyone else they do not care about.
I can tell you that this is an extremely dangerous game, and the authors of such plans should think about the consequences. NATO may be playing a dangerous game, but Russia ain’t playing. Putin is not engaged in rhetorical hyperbole when he states, “We will respond to that with all the resources available to us.” The potential for the war in Ukraine to escalate dramatically remains high. It does not appear that there is any leader of the NATO members who can talk some sense to Poland’s President Duda. Are the people of Poland ready for World War III? READER INTERACTIONS
The quicker the better:
All to obvious now, Ukraine 1991-2023, the quicker the better….thanks Joe, your “ preview,” your Afghanistan debacle will pale to your Ukrainian debacle…so easy to predict….carry on war cheerleaders, senile Joes war is getting way past amusing.
You are incoherent.
Time for NATO to hit Ruzzia and hit them HARD!!! Why wait for Putin to do whatever he threatens?
Kill Putin, kill the Ruzzian military, sell off the wreckage to pay for rebuilding Ukraine, and then bury what’s left of Ruzzia under generations of reparations for all of the pain and suffering they’ve caused!
You are incoherent.
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Argue away with Maria and Vlad, not me. Wagners latest statement from Minsk shows a willingness to stop Poland’s plan to move into western Ukraine…..as I stated months ago, the endgame is getting clearer: Ukraine gets carved up one way or another. Cheers!
FR warmongers are suicidal.
I am not a Zelinskinista but given the more or less stalemated operation in Ukraine, I would think the last thing Russia wants to do is a wider war.
That said, I can see how the Poles don’t like Russians
Time for NATO to hit Ruzzia and hit them HARD!!!
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If they could have, they would have. NATO and the collective West knows Vlad still holds all the cards…..his toolbox is still full, the West, depleted….the endgame is approaching, does the West do something really, really stupid? Or acknowledge reality and tell the Ukies to finally start negotiating?
The situation is becoming comical ( do remember Zelensky is a comedian- how ironic)….and bodes not well for the western war cheerleaders….time is beginning to tell a horrid story….” The last Ukrainian “ soon realizes senile Joe betrayed them….carry on Warcheerleaders, your destruction is near, so, so so predictable.
“Time for NATO to hit Ruzzia and hit them HARD!!! Why wait for Putin to do whatever he threatens?
Kill Putin, kill the Ruzzian military, ...”
Big talk from the NATO paper tiger.
Putin: But, firstly, NATO arsenals and stockpiles of old Soviet weapons in some countries are already largely depleted. And secondly, the West does not have the production capacities to quickly replenish the consumption of reserves of equipment and ammunition. “
My suggested first step: order forging presses from China so NATO can produce artillery ammunition.
“Planetary epicenter of money laundering.”
A very fitting description. Prolly the most corrupt place in the non-muslem world.(?)
The relationship with the US Deep-State, NATO, and other gangsters.
The dems made it out like the first call to Zelinsky, with the impeachment, was to show the US sheep that Trump was doing shenanigans when Hunter had been employed there for years. Pelosys kid. Two other top dem’s kids all working in uber high paying, do nothing , know nothing jobs.
His “toolbox” is empty of conventional military means. Also empty of economic leverage.
He can annoy and create PR stunts of course.
But they won’t… because they can’t. They are specifically incapable. NATO is on its deathbed, and good riddance. They should have disbanded when the Warsaw Pact/ USSR disbanded. But they didn’t, they overextended, FAFOed and this is the results.
Sad
Of course Joe’s not in charge. Ukraine nor Russia will be allowed to end this war and it is being escalated…everyone just observes the ulterior motives as if they’re not important.
That said, I can see how the Poles don’t like Russians
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They are not too fond of all the Ukies ( 6 million) on their welfare roles either. Polish social media has much to say about their Ukie refugees, I will let you dig up that information on your own, western MSM is crickets on this.
The Poles are hard workers, strong work ethic….not much stomach for free loaders and welfare types……ALL of Europe knows this statement- “when shaking hands with a Ukrainian, be sure to check how many fingers he stole”.
….the Poles are learning this quickly, just ask any Polish shopkeeper.
That is not a recipe for domestic peace in a nation with a representative government. Bismark understood that in 1871, and tried to limit annexations from France, because he did not want more non German speaking, non Lutheran, voters, electing representatives to the Reichstag .
Your hero Vlad can just gulag hundreds of thousands Ukes, to help the others get their minds right, and and he isn't going to allow the voters in the lands he has conquered to elect to the Duma representatives opposed to him, in any event. Poland can't do that, and wouldn't annex Western Ukraine, even if it wanted to.
And yet you fantasize that the Poles want to not just keep the Ukes who have fled there, but annex millions more, and put them on the voter rolls.
Plus Poles and Ukrainians have their own history.
If you have a strong stomach watch this movie.
Hatred (Wołyn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY-zOOjTO7U
(And this is the ‘censored’ version. I saw the uncensored one)
Are the Poles getting ready to attack a radio tower in Kaliningrad?
That would be the 'tell', wouldn't it?
I am old enough to remember Ross Perot’s warning…..that said, my best friend from that era became a millionaire auctioning off all our closing factories 30 ton punch presses, forming machines, twenty foot lathes, huge milling machines,….
Most he shipped to Mexico, the rest to China!
The best part? We even tore down and scrapped the acres of factories and buildings, we couldn’t even begin to think about gearing up for war without buildings to house the machinery necessary to get started……and with all of corporate America buying into “just in time” suppliers, our fate has been sealed years ago.
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