He's coming across as aggressive
The speech is obviously beyond crazy. What interests me is of all those people sitting in the room with him, how many are seriously on board and how many are sitting there thinking the country is going down a bizarre and dangerous path and something needs to be done urgently to change it ...
Tbh, makes a lot of sense to frame the war that way.
Lot harder to explain to the locals he's gets slapped around by a bunch of Ukrainians.
Be straight to the Donbas if you made that mistake! Focuses the mind.
Unless you mean his picking apart of Russia I don't get you. Ukraine is winning back territory every single day now.
He leaves out quite a few points, but also makes some valid points and points that would be backed up by facts. Or to put it another way his points are just as arguable as the more simplistic Slava Ukraine pundits. His comment at the end regarding the war on terror, that it didn't start with 911 and you have to look at the decades of US meddling in the Middle East to understand it was spot on and applies with this invasion too.
Putin is an autocratic murdering bastard who with his mates has reduced the nation with the most natural resources on Earth to a near slum for a huge part of "his" people. While lining his own pockets with billions of course. He's likely the actual richest person on the planet. Even his slavish propagandists on Russian TV have been openly calling for their lords and boyars the oligarchy to stump up cash for this land grab like the medieval kingdom it is. They just accept this as their reality. They don't even try to spin it, because the Russian people accept, even oddly celebrate this crazy reality.
But putin is not mad and he wasn't "unprovoked" as is so often claimed. The guy in the vid made spot on points about how America painted Bin Laden too. The czar in the Kremlin had his reasons and to him and many Russian people they made and make sense. Just like the war on terror nonsense made sense to many Americans. Until it didn't. This is not some thick Hollywood flic with black hatted and white hatted cowboys where realities and moralities are kept simple for the simple.
His nation like the US have long played proxy hot and cold war geopolitics in sovereign nations and have done since(and just before) WW2. Like two dogs at a bone, only the bone changes. Sometimes it's South America, other times it's Africa, the Far East, the Middle East. Eastern Europe was the bone for most of the 20th century. They're well chewed out. There are few enough nations on Earth that haven't felt the hot breath of the pair of them breathing down their necks at some point or other because of their "interests". There's barely a conflict over the last century that didn't involve one, or both of them at the same time. Ukraine is no different and both the US and Russia have been playing silly buggers while people died.
Russia screwed up massively the second they made their disastrous and murderous run for Kyiv. They fared just as badly in the north east. They made unbeliveably stupid decisions like nicking the foreign airliner fleet. They made some better decisions to concentrate on Donbas and the south east. Until they didn't and lost a huge chunk of it and made a Special Runaway Operation. They're running away even on this very day. They can't help but lie, even when actual truths might serve them better. Lying comes as easily as breathing to them and listening to lies comes just as easily to the ears of their people and their supporters. That won't change any time soon. They should be driven back to their borders with every means at the West's disposal. But putin and Russia's moves were not unprovoked and didn't magically appear out of thin air and America had the biggest hand in that. PLus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Actually I would say putin and Russia's most monumental screwup of all was being utterly stupid enough to a) believe they could win b) not realise the resistance that would meet them from Ukrainians and across the world(the part that matters in this case) and c) take the obvious bait is obvious in the first bloody place.
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Then goes and stands right beside them and shakes their hands. Bizarre
Say what you like about the Russians, but at least no-one had to admonish the footman for putting the fountain pen in the wrong place.
Now lets get out of here for the vodlka and caviar because our people dont starve and freeze like those poor peasants in the West do....
Even with his platform heels he's a minnow beside the four big oafs. What's the betting the 4 of them will be dead within the year? Hopefully 5 even....
Those high heels 👠 must be killing him
Feels more like a declaration of war against the US than anything else.
One things for sure he definitely doesn't look sick or on the verge of death with cancer or whatever else we kept hearing months back.
Yes, he seemed to frame the speech mostly as a Russia vs 'the West' speech - with the West (especially the US) cast in the role of being corrupt and degenerate and wishing to destroy the Russian way of life etc.
He's so feckin paranoid that he wont even sit at the same desk as the 4 plebs for the signing. Great optics for how much he embraces the new territory!
Lads this is mental - how long does the world stand by to watch as he picks apart a country piece by piece.
Its akin to a crowd watching a big bruiser beat the lard out of a young lad whilst everyone in the crowd looks at each other shaking their heads and saying "jasus thats awful, he can't do that"
The Usual rambling diatribe of the evil west and its poor morals. Bizarre Speech.
Throw a few rubles on the fire dear
I think we're all waiting for the nuclear weapons threat section of the speech
Putin: I've annexed it and they're mine; no take-backsies!
Obama said when he visited Russia in 2009 he mostly spent time with Medvedev since he was nominally President. He also visited Putin as a courtesy. It was meant to be an hour long but Putin ranted grievances like this at him for 2 hours before he had to leave.
Bloody hell. Putin is like the drunk one who went up to sing one karaoke song and now they won’t give the mic back!
I started to nod off 😂
Putin makes me sick, ranting about history and the west's colonial past while standing in a gilded imperial fuqing palace in the biggest country on earth comprised of...many many colonies. I'd love to drop a tactical nuke on that building they're all in right now.
touché
Where is there a red laser dot when you need one.
I hope it's not special tea.
That is totally self-evident horsesh*t. Don't try to insult our intelligence.
Jays there's a week worth of paranoid delusions contained in the speech for the Qanon conspiracy theorists. In fact the speechwriters must have used some of their input in compiling it.
So US bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima (and Hamburg and Koln) just for the craic and The Russians waked into Berlin as the Nazi's burned it down themselves.
US laid waste to Vietnam but Russia didn't do anything to Afghanistan or Chechnya.
Japan and Korea are just pawns of the US who are actively bugging their leaders and controlling their every thought and word but Belarussia is an independent state!!!
How long more can he keep up with this crap? We should have started a wedding speech wager before hand. I'd never have believed it would go on for half an hour but he could ramble on for another half yet!
same as it ever was
They don’t want to see us a free society. They want to see us as a crowd of slaves.
It's embarassing....
Some classic projection going on here as he accuses 'the West' of all the things he is guilty of.
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