Putin’s speech
On September 30, 2022, President Vladimir Putin delivered a momentous speech occasioned by the act of joining to the Russian Federation the territories of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson. All the diplomatic masks have fallen: the Russian leader laid down all the resentment that the Russian nation has been nurturing towards the West. It is praiseworthy to read the whole speech rather than let oneself be fooled by the media. Below we give an excerpt from it and we encourage the reader to give a simple yes-or-no answer to each question and observation made by the Russian president.
① “The last leaders of the Soviet Union, contrary to the direct expression of the will of the majority of people in the referendum of 1991, destroyed our great country, and simply made the people in the former republics face this as an accomplished fact.”
– Did the last leaders of the Soviet Union act against the 1991 referendum or did they not?
② “When the Soviet Union collapsed, the West decided that the world and all of us would permanently accede to its dictates.”
– True or false?
③ “The West continued and continues looking for another chance to strike a blow at us, to weaken and break up Russia, which they have always dreamed about, to divide our state and set our peoples against each other, and to condemn them to poverty and extinction. They cannot rest easy knowing that there is such a great country with this huge territory in the world, with its natural wealth, resources and people who cannot and will not do someone else’s bidding.”
– True or false?
④ “The West is counting on impunity, on being able to get away with anything. (…) Strategic security agreements have been trashed; (…) firm promises not to expand NATO to the east gave way to dirty deception: (…); missile defence, intermediate-range and shorter-range missile treaties have been unilaterally dismantled under far-fetched pretexts.”
– True or false?
⑤ “Western elites (…) brazenly divide the world into their vassals – the so-called civilised countries – and all the rest. (…) False labels like “rogue country” or “authoritarian regime” (…) are used to stigmatise entire nations and states.”
– True or false?
⑥ “What else, if not racism, is the Russophobia being spread around the world? What, if not racism, is the West’s dogmatic conviction that its civilisation and neoliberal culture is an indisputable model for the entire world to follow?”
– True or false?
⑦ “It is worth reminding (…) the wars of England and France against China, as a result of which it was forced to open its ports to the opium trade. What they did was get entire nations hooked on drugs and purposefully exterminated entire ethnic groups for the sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting people like animals.”
– True or false?
⑧ “The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice. (…) During WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. (…) The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons.”
– True or false?
⑨ “[The United States] continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. (…) The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour.”
– True or false?
⑩ “Washington demands more and more sanctions against Russia and the majority of European politicians obediently go along with it. They clearly understand that by pressuring the EU to completely give up Russian energy and other resources, the United States is practically pushing Europe toward deindustrialisation. (…) These European elites understand everything – they do, but they prefer to serve the interests of others. This is no longer servility but direct betrayal of their own peoples.”
– True or false?
⑪ “The dictates of the US are backed up by crude force, on the law of the fist. (…) Hence, the deployment and maintenance of hundreds of military bases in all corners of the world, NATO expansion. (…) All states that possess or aspire to genuine strategic sovereignty and are capable of challenging Western hegemony, are automatically declared enemies.”
– True or false?
⑫ “Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. (…) Do we want to have here, in our country, in Russia, “parent number one, parent number two and parent number three” (…) instead of mother and father? Do we want our schools to impose on our children, from their earliest days in school, perversions that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want to drum into their heads the ideas that certain other genders exist along with women and men and to offer them gender reassignment surgery? Is that what we want for our country and our children?”
– Do you, dear Reader, want it?
Read the whole. Compare it with the clap-trap speeches of American and European leaders.
