Putin’s BIG Interview: ‘West Wanted Geopolitical Advantage, It Was NOT Ideology’,
Unfortunately, West will not stop before Russia is under their control so they can profit from Russia’s vast and unexplored riches. Russia is the “last frontier” in the minds of self-proclaimed owners of the world and they are ready to push as far as possible.
He speaks with authority and declares responsibility for what he has done. It’s not easy to stay determined and hated by the west at the same time.
Angela Merkel said similar things in her memoir last year:
She suggested a stronger NATO green light for Ukraine in 2008 would have led to faster Russian aggression, with Ukraine less able to resist.
“I was very certain that Putin wouldn’t just let it happen,” she said. “For him, from his perspective, that was a declaration of war … I don’t share any of this, but I knew how he thought.”
USA use Ukraine as a CIA base
Finland has essentially been in NATO for years. Finnish forensics teams produce the results NATO wants on demand, like in Yugoslavia where they helped manufacture consent for the illegal war.
We are talking about a country that sided with Hitler and is proud of it to this day
“If Putin was indeed concerned about NATO expansion, then why did he never say it out loud?”
Repeatedly, as much as possible. Starting here: Putin’s Famous Munich Speech 2007
He could have said it a million times if he wanted to, his warnings would still be purposefully go unheeded. The West understands, quite correctly, that it is in a stronger position than Russia and can therefore translate that into a more aggressive posture. It would not have faced any direct consequence from NATO expansion, and it still doesn’t today.
It basically operates under “What’s the worst that could happen? Russia invades Ukraine? No great loss for us, while they have all to lose.”
former German Chancellor recently said that the Minsk Agreements, signed in 2014, had given Ukraine “precious time” to become stronger, and the results of this can now be seen. She emphasised that Ukraine in 2014-2015 was very different from Ukraine today.
Merkel and Hollande admited that the minsk agreement purpose was to gain time so Ukraine could build up their military
Finally, they recognised the existence of the Minsk agreement. It is the recognition by the Ukrainian government of the Donbass republics autonomy, which Ukraine has refused to do for 7 years.
By the way, Ukrainian ex-President Mr. Poroshenko, who actually signed the Minsk agreements, has recently confessed that they were never going to honor them and used them just to gain time for preparing their army to secure military solution to the Donbas conflict, so they were never peace-oriented and aspiring in the first place, but the worst thing is that EU brokered such bogus agreements, though hypocritically calling for peace
You skipped Zelenski’s election. He campaigned on implement the Minsk accords and to be a neutral State. He got 73% of the vote.
Now he is a dictator.
We recognize all annexed territory
The change in this war is too big, it seems you didn’t get it. If those territories become Russia, there’s no way Russia will back off from there, because they are constitutionally bound to them. Also, if they get attacked from now on, it’s another level of aggression, from their point of view. Nothing to be reported in this soft tone.
What’s next? Will he sign another decree declaring annexation of Alaska? Awesome idea
Unfortunately, Russia is as entitled to the territory as much as USA was entitled to Texas, as much as Israel to Palestine and as much as Scotland to England
You can take Kosovo as a precedence. Then you don’t even need to hold a referendum at all.
Resorting to nukes is basically an admission of defeat.
poke and poke and poke.. why don’t they just fight?
This dude went from “I will end the war before I enter office” to extorting Zelenskyy to “no more funding Ukraine” to “we will now fund Ukraine
But, but, but… I thought Putin respected Trump and would never attack Ukraine if he was president…
Russia is being absolutely clear, there will be no ceasefire but a long time peace agreement. What is it that trump doesn’t understand.
Weapons to be sold. That’s what this is all about.
No human should die over a grain of sand.
No peace deal in 24 hours then.
After 50 days passes, how many days will be next deadline lol?
Soviet Union asked to join NATO in 1954 but the application was rejected
Russia asked to be join NATO in 2004, it was rejected
When a compromise cannot be reached, only the strongest one is right.
Russia was no threat to Finland until they stopped being neutral
As an European I am afraid of the boogeyman
What the Communists said about USSR may not all have been true…
…But what they said about the West was 100% true.
Strength is the only virtue the collective West can understand.
Same as with the UN: When it was founded the US had a huge influence and most of vetos were from ussr. Today most of vetos come from the US, because countries like China gained influences.
Why don’t you call Putin and ask for peace, or surrender peacefully
M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. All for 1 and for 1 for All.
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