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Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war. “The weapons are stolen, the humanitarian aid is stolen, and we have no idea where the billions sent to this country have gone,...”
What is worse than 1700 soldiers killed in the much-vaunted Kherson offensive?
After dispatching 60 special forces to attack the ZNPP nucular plant - who were annihilated - 404 Military command (at the behest of NATO advisors) sent up to 300 soldiers to their deaths when their ‘attack barges’ were sunk. Attack barges. Sent in after their advance attack was thwarted. Attack barges.
This has to stop. NATO is committing genocide on the people of 404. ‘Useless butchery.”
Putin: "The End of Western Hegemony is INEVITABLE"
This is a reproduction of my live Twitter summary/translation of Vladimir Putin's speech:
I wish every single person in the West would listen to Putin's speech. Obviously, that won't happen so let me summarise as a professional translator for 10+ years. He states, as he has done from the outset, what his intentions and complaints are in the plainest terms possible.
Setting aside his brief comments on the recent "referendums", he spends most of his speech discussing the West. His primary complaint isn't NATO expansion, which gets only a cursory mention.
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The West is greedy and seeks to enslave and colonise other nations, like Russia.
The West uses the power of finance and technology to enforce its will on other nations. To collect what he calls the "hegemon's tax". To this end the West destabilises countries, creates terrorist enclaves and most of all seeks to deprive other countries of sovereignty.
It is this "avarice" and desire to preserve its power that is the reason for the "hybrid war" the collective West is "waging on Russia". They want us to be a "colony". They do not want us to be free, they want Russians to be a mob of soulless slaves - direct quote.
The rules-based order the West goes on about is "nonsense". Who made these rules? Who agreed to them? Russia is an ancient country and civilization and we will not play by these "rigged" rules. The West has no moral authority to challenge the referendums because it has violated the borders of other countries. Western elites are "totalitarian, despotic and apartheidistic" - direct quote. They are racist against Russia and other countries and nations. "Russophobia is racism". They discriminate by calling themselves the "civilised world".
They colonised, started the global slave trade, genocided native Americans, pillaged India and Africa, forced China to buy opium through war. We, on the other hand, are proud that we "led" the anti-colonial movement that helped countries develop to reduce poverty and inequality.
They are Russophobic (they hate us) because we didn't allow our country to be pillaged by creating a strong CENTRALISED (emphasis his) state based on Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. They have been trying to destabilise our country since the 17th century in the Times of Trouble. Eventually, they managed to "get their hands on our riches" at the end of the 20th century. They called us friends and partners while pumping out trillions of dollars (his irony game is strong today).
We remember this. We didn't forget. The West claims to bring freedom and democracy to other countries but it's the exact opposite of the truth. The unipolar world is anti-democratic by its very nature. It is a lie. They used nuclear weapons, creating a precedent. They flattened German cities without "any military need to do so". There was no need for this except to scare us and the rest of the world. Korea, Vietnam. To this day they "occupy" Japan, South Korea and Germany and other countries while cynically calling them "allies".
The West has surveillance over the leaders of these nations who "swallow these insults like the slaves they are".
He then talks about bioweapon research (haven't heard about them for a while) and human experiments "including in Ukraine".
The US rules the world by the power of the fist. Any country which seeks to challenge Western hegemony becomes an enemy. Their neocolonialism is cloaked in lies like "containment" of Russia, China and Iran. The concept of truth has been destroyed with fakes and extreme propaganda (irony game still strong).
You cannot feed your people with printed dollars and social media. You need food and energy. But Western elites have no desire to find a solution to the food and energy crises *they* (emphasis his) created.
They solved the problems at the start of 20c with WW1 and the US established dominance of the world via the dollar as a result of WW2. In the 80s they had another crisis they solved by "plundering our country". Now they want to solve their problems by "breaking Russia".
Russia "understands its responsibility to the international community" and will "do everything to cool the heads of these neocolonials who are destined to fail".
They're crazy. I want to speak to all Russian citizens, do we want to replace mum and dad with parent 1 and 2?
They invented genders and claim you can "transition". Do we want this for our children?
We have a different vision.
They have abandoned religion and embraced Satanism - direct quote.
The world is going through a revolutionary transformation. A multipolar world offers nations freedom to develop as they wish and they make up the majority of the world.
We have many like-minded friends in Western countries. We see and appreciate their support. They are forming liberation, anti-colonial movements as we speak - direct quote. These will only grow.
We are fighting for a fair world for our country. The idea of exceptionalism is criminal and we must turn this shameful page. The breaking of the West's hegemony is INEVITABLE (emphasis his).
There is no going back. We are fighting for our "great (as in big), historic Russia". Our values are (irony game crescendo): love of our fellow man, compassion and mercy.
Truth is with us, Russia is with us.
The West is greedy and seeks to enslave and colonise other nations
(minus the religion and family bullshit, which is just code for "respect authority blindly" and "it's okay to discriminate against and harass people who are different". Same regressive shit Meloni is pushing)
DrEvil » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:19 am wrote:But they're just replacing one form of authoritarianism with another. Same shit, different wrapping.
Harvey » Sun Oct 02, 2022 5:24 am wrote:DrEvil » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:19 am wrote:But they're just replacing one form of authoritarianism with another. Same shit, different wrapping.
Despite your talk of autonomy, clearly, you feel entitled to manage their affairs better than they can. Otherwise what is actually happening all around you would be very easy to describe.
Imagine if when Germany had entered Sudetenland, Hitler had claimed that it was a humanitarian mission to destroy the WMD and liberate the people, it would have been at least another twenty years before some of the people realised they were in a world war, even though the Czech's, the socialists, the communists, trades-unionists and Jews were in no doubt.
Why do you suppose that a certain type of well placed professional, the world over, has been quietly building bombshelters underneath their exclusively located addresses?
DrEvil » Sun Oct 02, 2022 6:07 pm wrote:Replacing a pile of shit with another pile of shit still leaves you with a pile of shit. It might have a slightly different odor, but neither one is going to stop US hegemony or Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Belligerent Savant » Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:49 am wrote:DrEvil » Sun Oct 02, 2022 6:07 pm wrote:Replacing a pile of shit with another pile of shit still leaves you with a pile of shit. It might have a slightly different odor, but neither one is going to stop US hegemony or Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
To call this commentary facile would be too charitable.
The scales are decidedly not level right now, as you suggest. The West/WEF (over the last ~couple years) are a markedly more pervasive and intrusive threat to the common human than just about any other threat we've faced in the modern era.
Also: Russia's invasion of the Ukraine was not unprovoked, clearly.
Whatever Putin or Meloni may offer right now -- and it can't be clearly/directly compared to anything else, despite feeble attempts to do so -- they're (overtly, at least) operating on the defensive, against a global affront to livelihoods everywhere.
That said, as I already indicated in my prior comment, they are both politicians; as such, most of this -- their speeches, and any response, etc. -- is spectacle; theatre. Repercussions will be real, to be clear, but the stage-setting leading up to the direct impact at the individual/community levels is where the spectacle comes in. We speculate (or at least, I speculate) outwardly-facing enemies -- or perhaps more precisely, their handlers -- are striking deals or coming to tentative agreements that may or may not play out as planned; there are possible outlier scenarios and unpredictable potential outcomes. Or so I'd like to believe.
But without a doubt, It's the West/WEF (and all their counterparts) that have been the egregious aggressors of late. A counter to such an affront is inevitable.
The average human would do well to perform various acts of civil disobedience and/or non-compliance to help stifle the propaganda from all sides. But I've little hope the average human will rise to the occasion anytime soon (particularly en masse), certainly not before things get measurably worse than they already are.
DrEvil » Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:06 am wrote:...and then threatens to use nukes if Ukraine tries to take it back...
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