Putin on Ukraine and the West: Key takeaways from latest speech

The collective West clinging on its “crumbling dominance” has been the ultimate driver of the crisis, Russian president says.

President Vladimir Putin a gave an extensive speech on the Ukrainian crisis on Wednesday, as he met with regional heads to discuss measures of socioeconomic support to counter the wave of anti-Russian sanctions. Putin provided his take on the ongoing conflict with Ukraine, its causes, and the goals Russia pursues.

Conflict was inevitable

Launching the “special military operation” was the only option Russia had left to end the years-long bloodshed in eastern Ukraine, Putin stressed. At the same time, limiting its scope to the breakaway Donbass republics only would only push the “frontline” westwards, rather than defuse the situation, he noted.

While waging the war against the breakaway regions of Donbass, Kiev has been preparing for a broad offensive to re-capture them, Putin said, adding that “almost 14,000 civilians, including children, have been killed” in the conflict. Ukrainian authorities also sought to attack Crimea, which split from the country back in 2014 and joined Russia via a referendum.

“Encouraged by the United States and other Western countries, Ukraine was purposefully preparing for a scenario of force, a massacre and an ethnic cleansing in Donbass. A massive onslaught on Donbass and later Crimea was just a matter of time. However, our Armed Forces have shattered these plans,” Putin said.

Kiev actively sought weapons of mass destruction

Ukrainian authorities have openly stated their goal to obtain weapons of mass destruction, namely nuclear bombs and means of their delivery, Russia’s president has said. Given the extremely hostile attitude of Kiev, such systems would have been used to target Russia once they were ready.

Putin also touched upon the Ukrainian biolab network allegations, raised by the Russian military amid the offensive. The facilities scattered across the country have allegedly been engaged in biological weapons development with direct support of Washington. The allegations, backed by documents published by the Russian military, have been met with varying degrees of denial from the top US officials.

“There was a network of dozens of laboratories in Ukraine, where military biological programs were conducted under the guidance and with the financial support of the Pentagon, including experiments with coronavirus strains, anthrax, cholera, African swine fever and other deadly diseases,” Putin said, adding that now “frantic attempts” are underway to conceal the “traces of these secret programs.”

Ukraine established as ‘anti-Russia’

Over the past few years, under the close guidance of their Western handlers, the Kiev authorities have morphed Ukraine into “anti-Russia”, Putin suggested. The only goal of the incumbent Kiev “regime” is to drag the conflict on for as long as possible, with little regard to the fate of the civilians or destruction that ensues.

“We are seeing again and again that the Kiev regime, for which its Western masters have set the task of creating an aggressive ‘anti-Russia’, is indifferent to the fate of the people of Ukraine themselves,” Putin said.

“It is also obvious that the Western handlers are simply pushing the Kiev authorities to continue the bloodshed. They are supplied with more and more weaponry batches, they are provided with intelligence, they also receive other assistance, including military advisers and mercenaries.”

Kiev & West exhibit ‘shocking cynicism’

Both Ukrainian authorities and the collective West have exhibited “shocking cynicism” amid the conflict, Putin said, offering the ballistic missile strike on the center of Donetsk that occurred on Monday as an example of such behavior. The strike killed at least 20 civilians.

They are striking randomly at squares with the fervor of fanatics and the exasperation of the doomed. They are acting like the Nazis did when they tried to drag as many innocent victims as they could to their graves,”Putin said, adding that Kiev had tried to blame the strike on Russia through “blatant lies.”

The attitude of “the so-called civilized world” to the missile strike turned to be “shocking in its extreme cynicism” as well, the president went on.

“The European and American press did not even notice this tragedy in Donetsk, as if nothing happened,” Putin said. “Just like they have been hypocritically looking the other way over the past eight years as mothers buried their children in Donbass, as elderly people were killed. This is simply moral degradation, complete de-humanization.”

Crumbling dominance of the West behind global turmoil

Ultimately, the West’s desire to maintain its global dominance is the root of the ongoing Ukrainian turmoil, as well as crises in the other parts of the globe, Putin believes.

“Today, the entire planet has to pay the price for the ambitions of the West, for its attempts by any means to maintain its crumbling dominance,” he said.

Concerned only with their “vested interests and super profits,” the Western elites led the world into the current situation through “years of mistakes and short-sited decisions.”

For instance, the impact of the anti-Russian sanctions, imposed over the Ukrainian conflict, is already being felt by the common people in the West – while the elites have been bizarrely trying to blame it on Moscow, Putin noted.

I want ordinary Western people to hear me as well. You are being persistently told that your current difficulties are the result of Russia’s hostile actions and that you have to pay from your own pockets for the efforts to counter the alleged Russian threat. All of that is a lie.

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from the ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-18/inside-russias-military-morale-problem/100907188 (this should have been placed under "opinion")... Anyway:

When Vladimir Putin declared his intentions for Ukraine, he had a large army at his disposal, superior artillery and experience overseeing previous military campaigns.

His neighbour, by comparison, was outnumbered, outgunned and outmatched.

The military assessment from the West was a brutal one: Ukraine's forces would be dwarfed by their enemies in most ways. The reality is they still are.

Yet Russia's defiant neighbour has somehow managed to stymie the former superpower's three-pronged attack. After two weeks of bombardment, Ukraine's military has held up better than many had predicted.

In some cases, they have even been able to stall Russia's advance.

Russia's military campaign, by comparison, has suffered several setbacks and been plagued by logistics issues.

Some troops have crossed the border with MREs (Meal, ready-to-eat ration packs) that expired in 2002, the New York Times cited US and other Western officials as reporting. Others have surrendered and sabotaged their own vehicles to avoid fighting.

So how is it that Russia's military, the fifth largest in the world, was so unprepared to meet such resistance from a smaller force?

Flawed assumptions, possible intelligence failures and low morale may have all played a hand, according to observers.

The Russians underestimated their enemies

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has exposed its military shortcomings, according to retired US lieutenant general Ben Hodges.

One of the key issues so far has been a lack of planning around logistics and supply systems, the former commanding general of US Army forces in Europe told CBS.

Military observers have pointed to the 64 kilometre-long military convoy that stalled near Ukraine's capital Kyiv on March 3 as just one example. Another was how Russia's ground forces became bogged down outside the northern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in the first week of the war.

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Though there could be some truths here, this is not an a-typical problem with the Russian troops. The Russian military would have had to know that it was not going to be a picnic in the park… THEY DID NOT UNDERESTIMATE THEIR ENNEMY... See: good questions...

This is why the decision was made by Putin to destroy the hardware of the entire Ukrainian military, rather than “just protect the Donbass new republics. Putin has shown restraint in trying to limit the collateral damages. Some of the “innocent people” deaths are from friendly fire. Presently, most of the “resistance” is provided by Nazi-dedicated gangsters, working like guerrillas. Fighting such wars is always difficult while trying to limit population casualties. The Russian military would have been aware of this, until Zelensky would (and will) eventually agree to the terms of peace which haven’t changed since Putin placed Russia's demands late last year.

As well, the hope that the West and its disinformation channels, plus hefty sanctions against Russia, would help Ukraine is misguided. There has been lots of money and weapons pledged to Ukraine, but so far little has been delivered. Zelensky is desperately trying to start WW3 and hopefully this idiot won’t succeed.

Meanwhile, the longer Zelensky-the war-criminal refuses to make peace with Russia, the more he is responsible for the death of his people. Zelensky is a puppet of the West, but he believes in his own destiny-shit. He is a sad clown who has lost his little bicycle. Sad.

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To which Gus would add "fake news”… and "deliberately wrong analysis”

For example, consider the article by Erika Harlitz-Kern — an adjunct instructor at Florida International University in Miami. She is a public historian and writer whose work has appeared in The Week, The Daily Beast and The Washington Post, among others. Her writings are of course completely biased… Her latest venture is a horror…

The War That Showed Us How an Underdog Can Beat the Russian Army

When the Soviet Union crossed the border into Finland, they did so in the belief that Finland would roll over and surrender, just as the Russians thought Ukraine would earlier this year. Like the Ukrainians, the Finns fought back.

What followed was a three-and-a-half-month war between David and Goliath, and just like David, the Finns prevailed because of their smarts, their creativity, and because they fought to protect their home while the Soviet soldiers had no real skin in the game.

This is the war when the Molotov cocktail got its name. Homemade bombs made from bottles with highly flammable liquids and strips of fabrics set alight are first documented during the Spanish Civil War, but it was the Finns who came up with the name as an insult to Vyacheslav Molotov.

The Finns also developed a tactic known in Finnish as “motti.” Motti, literally meaning encirclement, is where the highly mobile Finnish soldiers camouflaged in white moved through the winter forest on skis, trapping the Red Army vehicles and convoys that could only be driven on roads. Once the Russian vehicles were cut off from one another, the Finns picked them off, one by one, similar to what happened to the 40-mile Russian convoy that supposedly was headed toward Kyiv.

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This is not the way the Russians are fighting. They know better. The 40 miles Russian convoy is not under major threats...

So far, the Russians are patiently waiting. They do not want to hit civilians — which they could do easily and destroy Kiev in half-a-day. The Ukrainian battalions are fighting like guerrillas because the Ukrainian army has run out of hardware. The Russians do not want to fight at this level. In Syria the Russians used special explosive devices that destroyed in one shot, entire streets — the hideout of Daesh (terrorists created and supported by the US, despite what we are told by the US). Beyond this, the number of civilian killed by the Russians is probably lower than the Russian casualties, not because the Russians cannot fight, but, repeat, the Russians do not want to harm civilians. Their bombing has always been strategic to destroy resistance nests, Ukrainian military stores, hideouts and fighters. So far 90 per cent of the Ukrainian weaponry has been destroyed. The Ukrainian are fighting dirty by hiding behind civilians and by destroying some civilian targets as if this had been done by the Russians. Ugly… Eventually, the Russian army will prevail. Zelensky, the little jewish boy, has no choice but to make a deal with Putin.

He has to. 

The hypocrites are in the US administrations by far…

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