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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin's speech today. Worth a read. He pretty much declared war on the West.
Link to tweet
Medium thread.
From the NY Times:
Speaking to hundreds of Russian lawmakers and governors in a grand Kremlin hall, Mr. Putin said that the residents of the four regions which are still partially controlled by Ukrainian forces would become Russias citizens forever. He then held a signing ceremony with the Russian-installed heads of those four regions to start the official annexation process, before clasping hands with them and chanting Russia! Russia!
Even by Mr. Putins increasingly confrontational standards, it was an extraordinary speech, mixing riffs against Western attitudes on gender identity with an appeal to the world to see Russia as the leader of an uprising against American power.
Not only do Western elites deny national sovereignty and international law, he said in the 37-minute address. Their hegemony has a pronounced character of totalitarianism, despotism and apartheid.
A few excerpts from Reuters:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/extracts-from-putin-s-speech-at-annexation-ceremony/47943676
Joinfortmill
(14,397 posts)roody
(10,849 posts)the translated speech.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)dalton99a
(81,406 posts)of drunks and incompetent generals with big hats
Chainfire
(17,474 posts)Chainfire
(17,474 posts)KS Toronado
(17,155 posts)Botany
(70,449 posts).... lives in a multitude of billion $ homes.
"He then held a signing ceremony with the Russian-installed heads of those four regions to start the official annexation process, before clasping hands with them and chanting Russia! Russia!
Zambero
(8,962 posts)rubbersole
(6,662 posts)The Unmitigated Gall
(3,786 posts)No respect for boundaries.
No respect for standards.
No respect for rights.
Raping, pillaging, torturing, murdering.
Pootler is leading nothing but his own sickening megalomania.
PortTack
(32,715 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,592 posts)Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,813 posts)PortTack
(32,715 posts)rubbersole
(6,662 posts)dalton99a
(81,406 posts)EndlessWire
(6,460 posts)will be talking about Ukraine at 3 pm ET.
I know a lot of you don't like the UN, but you can look at it like a DU discussion, but a little more strait laced and stuff between the lines. I am hoping they get kicked out of the UN. No, I don't know what that will mean. They never say much, anyway except to complain, bullshit, and whine about the Russian language. They are an obstruction to UN business, and they are not needed.