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Casus Belli : As Vladimir Putin was saying just the other day. . . [Emphasis Added]

Above: “Some animals are more equal than others.” Putin sits at the top of the table away from others. I note that when the leader of a warring nation tells you why that nation is at war, you’d best listen to what he says.


Putin Speaks: Meeting with State Duma leaders and  faction heads with the President of Russia

[Official Translation — Bumpf deleted. Emphasis added.]

Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues, Mr Volodin.

The State Duma’s spring session ended yesterday, July 6, and all deputiesI want to emphasize thisall parties made a significant contribution to the overall results.

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This Duma session was rich in events and intense work and was very important given the scale and complexity of the tasks at hand. After February 24, when the special military operation began, all the country’s branches and levels of government needed to act decisively, as a team, and quickly.

Today, I want to thank you for working like that: in a collected and competent manner and at a fast pace. I believe all parties have confirmed their political viability and maturity and acted in a consolidated and cohesive manner like true statesmen and patriots of Russia, for whom inter-party disagreements fade into the background in difficult conditions. We have many parties, but one Motherland, and there is nothing more important and loftier than the fate of the Fatherland.

. . . . This was not just about the advanced indexation of pensions, which is important, an increase in the subsistence level and the minimum wage – all this was done without bureaucratic red tape and delays, in a clear and professional manner; but it was also about new measures on support for families with children, the extension and expansion of the mechanism for subsidized mortgage loans and additional guarantees for our heroic military personnel.  . . . .

I would like to acknowledge and thank every parliamentary party for the organized humanitarian support of the people of Donbass.  . . . .

I know that many deputies have taken an official holiday and gone to the zone of hostilities in order to provide help personally, often at the real risk of their lives. They went to help organize the distribution of food, medications, and basic necessities and quickly set up humanitarian aid centers. . . . . .

As a result, we have managed to preserve macroeconomic stability, which is crucial for the economy, to support employment, the normal rhythm of retail trade and economic life in the regions in general, the main transport and logistics chains, to expand the freedom of entrepreneurship, and enhance protection of businesses from excessive administrative pressure and unjustified criminal prosecution. . . . 

In a short time, as soon as in early March, several packages of anti-sanctions measures were introduced in close contact with the Government. Thanks to these packages, the consequences of the Western countries’ unfriendly and clearly hostile actions were minimized. Indeed, we understand and know this, we see that these illegal measures against Russia are clearly creating difficulties for us, but not as great as the initiators of this economic blitzkrieg against Russia were counting on.

Clearly, they tried to do more than just hit the Russian economy hard. Their goal was to sow discord and confusion in our society and to demoralize people. But here too, they failed since nothing came of it, and I am sure nothing ever will.

. . . . The policy of the parliament is based on the will of the people of Russia, our firm position and conviction that we are on the right side of history, on the unwavering resolve of the vast majority of the country’s citizens to uphold Russia’s sovereignty and to help our people in Donbass. This is what underlies the policy of our state in general.

The so-called collective West led by the United States has been extremely aggressive towards Russia for decades. Our proposals to create a system of equal security in Europe have been rejected. Initiatives for cooperation on the issue of missile defence were rejected. Warnings about the unacceptability of NATO expansion, especially at the expense of the former republics of the Soviet Union, were ignored. Even the idea of Russia’s possible integration into this North Atlantic alliance at the stage of our, as it seemed then, cloudless relations with NATO, apparently, seemed absurd to its members.

Why? Just because they do not need a country like Russia, that is why. That is why they supported terrorism and separatism in Russia, internal destructive forces, and a ‘fifth column in our country. All of them are still receiving unconditional support from the collective West.

We are being told, we hear some people say that we started the war in Donbass, in Ukraine. No, the war was unleashed by the collective West, which organized and supported the unconstitutional armed coup in Ukraine in 2014, and then encouraged and justified genocide against the people of Donbass. The collective West is the direct instigator and the culprit of what is happening today.

If the West wanted to provoke a conflict in order to move on to a new stage in the fight against Russia and a new stage in containing our country, we can say that it has succeeded to a certain extent. A war was unleashed, and sanctions were imposed. . . . 

 They should have realized that they would lose from the very beginning of our special military operation, because this operation also means the beginning of a radical breakdown of the US-style world order. This is the beginning of the transition from liberal-globalist American egocentrism to a truly multipolar world based not on self-serving rules made up by someone for their own needs, behind which there is nothing but striving for hegemony, not on hypocritical double standards, but on international law and the genuine sovereignty of nations and civilizations, on their will to live their historical destiny, with their own values and traditions, and to align cooperation on the basis of democracy, justice and equality.

Everyone should understand that this process cannot be stopped. The course of history is inexorable, and the collective West’s attempts to impose its new world order on the rest of the world are doomed.

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To reiterate, even in the countries that are still satellites of the United States, there is a growing understanding that their ruling elites’ blind obedience to their overlord, as a rule, does not necessarily coincide with their national interests, and most often simply and even radically contradicts them. . . . 

Today, these ruling elites are raising the degree to which they manipulate the public consciousness right before our eyes. The ruling classes of the Western countries, which are supranational and globalist in nature, realised that their policies are increasingly detached from reality, common sense and the truth, and they have started resorting to openly despotic methods.

The West, which once declared such principles of democracy as freedom of speech, pluralism and respect for dissenting opinions, has now degenerated into the opposite: totalitarianism. This includes censorship, media bans, and the arbitrary treatment of journalists and public figures.

These kinds of prohibitions have been extended not only to the information space, but also to politics, culture, education, and art – to all spheres of public life in the Western countries. And, they are imposing this on the world; they are trying to impose this model, a model of totalitarian liberalism, including the notorious cancel culture of widespread bans.

However, the truth and reality is that the people in most of these countries do not want this life or this future, and really do not want the formal semblance of sovereignty, they want substantive, real sovereignty and are simply tired of kneeling, of humiliating themselves before those who consider themselves exceptional, and of serving their interests even to their own detriment.

Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. Well, what can I say? Let them try. We have already heard a lot about the West wanting to fight us ”to the last Ukrainian.“ This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but that seems to be where it is going. But everyone should know that, by and large, we have not started anything in earnest yet.

At the same time, we are not rejecting peace talks, but those who are rejecting them should know that the longer it goes on, the harder it will be for them to negotiate with us.

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  • John Venlet July 13, 2022, 10:17 AM

    Let’s Go Brandon would not have even been able to get through the first paragraph of that speech. I’ve no love for Putin, but ya gotta admit that his speech writers know how to craft a speech, and its translation into the English language also indicates, to me at least, that Putin’s hand at the wheel is much steadier than any current Western head of state.

    • Anonymous July 13, 2022, 11:53 AM

      Ever consider that perhaps Vlad writes these himself?

      • John Venlet July 13, 2022, 12:36 PM

        Actually, Anonymous, as I input my first comment I did consider that, as Putin does have an education, and it is possible, but even the worst tyrant has obsequious toadys who jump when the tyrant says jump. Are you of the opinion that that speech was not warmly received by the members of the Duma, and the Russian people themselves?

      • james wilson July 13, 2022, 1:23 PM

        Putin has a plan and appears to be very organinzed. Perhaps part of that plan is to not speak in English, in which he demonstrated fluency in circa 2011.

  • T Blossom Makes Reality July 13, 2022, 3:53 PM

    BRI, SCO, BRICS all went on while we went WOKE.
    Iran will join SCO in September and shipments of materials from Russia to India have already begun using Iranian ports.
    How bout that isolation.

  • jiminalaska July 13, 2022, 6:00 PM

    Thanks Gerard.

    I followed the link back to the original -.RU site and read the Duma member’s statements as well. A bit, a wee bit of bluster, no real ball busters. They seem well organized, present a fine public face in spite of the Duma built of many alleys rather than two sides of the aisle such as we have. -0r had, more and more our government reminds me of the old USSR, follow the party line else expect the knock, on your door in the middle of the night.

    & nope, not pro Russia, what they do is their business, but I am anti Buck Fiden and the whole New World Order crowd.

  • Cris July 13, 2022, 7:03 PM

    That table looks like the world’s largest roulette wheel.

  • Geoff C. The Saltine July 13, 2022, 10:06 PM

    Our world is changing very fast. Who do we want Putin or the WEF. Not a good choice.
    What a place to be in between of.
    God is our only hope.

  • Ed P July 14, 2022, 2:49 AM

    Where are the equally-incisive and accurate assessments of western attitudes, with rebuttals of Putin’s points? With the lack of western counter-analysis and open debate (difficult with so much suppression and distortion by the media of any unofficial views), many of his statements seem reasonable.

  • Arty July 14, 2022, 4:28 AM

    As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with much of what he says. The entire western world is in the hands of immoral twits and it’s becoming obvious.

  • Moose July 14, 2022, 4:58 AM

    This part sums up a lot of what people feel here in the US:

    “However, the truth and reality is that the people in most of these countries do not want this life or this future, and really do not want the formal semblance of sovereignty, they want substantive, real sovereignty and are simply tired of kneeling, of humiliating themselves before those who consider themselves exceptional, and of serving their interests even to their own detriment.”

    Are there any lies in this part?

    • John Venlet July 14, 2022, 12:23 PM

      Are there any lies in this part?

      None.