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a question of trust.....Tony Blair argued Vladimir Putin should be given a seat at the world's "top table" despite misgivings from officials, newly released files reveal. Papers released by the National Archives show in early 2001, the then-prime minister believed it was important to encourage the new Russian president to adopt Western values. But officials questioned if the ex-KGB spy could be trusted. Files also show Mr Putin offered to build a gas pipeline to the UK.
In early 2001, Mr Blair explained his approach to the Russian President telling new American Vice-President Dick Cheney that it would encourage him to "reach for" Western attitudes and the West's economic model. He said Mr Putin was a Russian patriot, sensitive to Russia's "loss of respect" in the world, and had a similar "mindset" to French President Charles de Gaulle, though the two were not directly comparable. The Russian President was the first world leader to be given a pair of silver No 10 cufflinks, as a birthday gift in October 2001. Behind the scenes, Downing Street officials were more sceptical. A few months earlier, a paper on "Putin's Progress" was prepared for John Sawers, then defence adviser to the prime minister and later head of MI6. The anonymous writer pointed out that the Russian President's "constructive" comments to Mr Blair were sometimes "belied" by Russian actions. The long list of examples included the Kursk tragedy, when 118 Russian sailors had drowned. Mr Putin had said he was grateful for the offers of British help. Yet Russian officials had obstructed assistance. They had also repeated unfounded rumours that a collision with a British submarine caused the disaster. When it came to Nato, Mr Putin had told Mr Blair that he would not try to slow down the process of the bloc's enlargement. At the same time his Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev had told his Nato counterparts it would a be "major political error" and Russia would "take appropriate steps". Mr Putin spoke warmly of the "closeness" between the UK and Russia. He had even offered to build a pipeline across the Baltic Sea to supply gas to the UK. He told Mr Blair it would "ensure stable supplies for decades to come". The proposal was raised at a meeting between the two leaders in Moscow in 2002, but that particular pipeline was never built. Meanwhile, the Russian intelligence presence remained at Cold War levels and "they continue to try to post active and hostile officers to work against British interests worldwide". 'Clinton wanted revenge'By 2001 the Blair administration had a new US President to deal with too. The files show it reacted quickly once George Bush's victory was confirmed by the Supreme Court in December 2000. Mr Blair had been close to President Bill Clinton, and wanted to build links quickly with his successor. Mr Blair was the first foreign leader to call to congratulate the president-elect, in an eight minute phone conversation. The British prime minister asked if they could be on first name terms. The president agreed, but continued to call the prime minister "sir". Before the president's inauguration, defence adviser John Sawers and Mr Blair's chief of staff Jonathan Powell went to Washington to meet officials and likely members of President Bush's team. Mr Powell wrote they were welcomed: "They all said they wanted to keep the relationship special. It will not however be as cosy as with the Clinton administration. Unlike Clinton they will not do political favours for us." Meanwhile, Mr Clinton himself wanted to maintain his friendship with the prime minister, and to attack his successor. He "wanted revenge" wrote Mr Powell at the end of March 2001. "We don't really want to be associated with Clinton," he wrote to the prime minister. But the former president's adviser Sidney Blumenthal had "hinted" that Mr Clinton was disappointed Mr Blair had not called saying "you do not want to look like you are walking away from your former friend". In a scrawled note Blair added: "Why don't I call him soon?" Other files include then-cabinet minister Mo Mowlam's support for the legalisation of cannabis, and the Blair government's frustration with what one adviser called the "juvenile media".
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PUTIN IS STILL THERE, ALONE AT THE TOP TABLE OF INTELLIGENT LEADERS WHO KNOW HISTORY AND HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED. THE MORONS LIKE BLAIR, AND NOW JOE BIDEN, PLAY DIRTY....
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NATO leaders have known since 2001 that Russia would “take appropriate steps” against further expansion of the alliance, according to documents recently declassified by the UK and reported by The Times.
A year into Vladimir Putin’s presidency, then-Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev told his NATO counterparts that the bloc’s continued expansion into the former Warsaw Pact would be a major political error, the newspaper stated on Friday. Sergeyev warned that Moscow would “take appropriate steps” to respond to this enlargement, the article continued.
The largest NATO expansion to date would take place three years later, with Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joining the US-led military bloc.
In his speech at the Munich Security Conference in 2007, Putin described this expansion as “a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust,” although the leaders of NATO insisted that their alliance was defensive in nature. After Ukraine refused to abandon its aspirations of joining – which Moscow viewed as an unacceptable security threat – and NATO insisted that Kiev would one day become a member, Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February.
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BY Björn Seelmann von Eggebert
The West's "Empire of Lies" is powerless against truth and justice. Russia will continue to bring its position to the whole world. Our position is honest and open, and more and more people hear, understand and share it.~ Vladimir Putin (source)
Vladimir Putin was not afraid to enter into a fierce geopolitical and military battle with the Empire of Lies. The whole world perceives the Ukrainian war in this way. They have been encroaching right up to the borders of Russia. It is not surprising that the Russian president is pushing back, but that does not mean he is threatening European or world stability or peace.
"Now, as to whether issues could be resolved through force and whether you can use force and stay on the side of good; would you like to say that 'good' forces should be helpless or defenceless? 'Good' should not be defenceless. 'Good' should be able to defend itself and that is our position." ~ Vladimir Putin, Press Conference, Feb. 22, 2022Recently, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that "the 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give time to Ukraine. It also used this time to become stronger as can be seen today. The Ukraine of 2014-2015 is not the modern Ukraine," Referring to Merkel's comments, Putin said, "It was absolutely unexpected for me. It's disappointing ... Trust almost dropped to zero." This only shows, he went on to say, "that launching the SMO [Special Military Operation] was the right decision".
Zelensky, a week before the war was launched, threatened to tear up the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, allowing Ukraine to develop nuclear weapons. That announcement was probably still ringing in Putin's ears when he started the SMO.
Back in March, more than 40,000 Syrians registered to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine, how many, if any, actually got permission to join the SMO is unknown. But Syria was undoubtedly saved by Russia in 2015-17 when it played a key role in defeating the CIA's proxy jihadist horde. Or as one Syrian reported; "Russian soldiers gave their blood for Syrian soil, and now it is time [for the Syrians] to help the brotherly [Russians]."
You could say that this is how Putin's Russia naturally acts and builds relationships. To help out those in need and countries that ask for it. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad had the following to say about this: If Moscow asks, Syrians will fight with Russia in Ukraine.
Unlike the USA, Russia does not have vassals, it has friends, and the only thing they have to do is ask. The Syrian president also said "Western nations bear responsibility for the chaos and bloodshed," accusing them of using "dirty methods to support terrorists in Syria and Nazis in Ukraine." A valid point.
''Attempts to create a unipolar world have acquired an absolutely ugly configuration in recent times and they are absolutely unacceptable for the overwhelming majority of states on this planet'' ~ Vladimir Putin (Source)While the Empire is creating chaos, Russia is trying to put out the fire. We must ask ourselves who is taking a stand for humanity and who advocated and practices domination and destruction.
END OF UNIPOLARITY
Putin speaks out as a voice of reason and truth against the Empire of Lies.
''The West is ready to cross every line to preserve the neo-colonial system which allows it to live off the world, to plunder it thanks to the domination of the dollar and technology, to collect an actual tribute from humanity, to extract its primary source of unearned prosperity, the rent paid to the hegemon. The preservation of this annuity is their main, real and absolutely self-serving motivation. This is why total de-sovereignisation is in their interest. This explains their aggression towards independent states, traditional values and authentic cultures, their attempts to undermine international and integration processes, new global currencies and technological development centres they cannot control. It is critically important for them to force all countries to surrender their sovereignty to the United States.In certain countries, the ruling elites voluntarily agree to do this, voluntarily agree to become vassals;others are bribed or intimidated. And if this does not work, they destroy entire states, leaving behind humanitarian disasters, devastation, ruins, millions of wrecked and mangled human lives, terrorist enclaves, social disaster zones, protectorates, colonies and semi-colonies. They don't care. All they care about is their own benefit.[...]
[...]I want to underscore again that their insatiability and determination to preserve their unfettered dominance are the real causes of the hybrid war that the collective West is waging against Russia. They do not want us to be free; they want us to be a colony. They do not want equal cooperation; they want to loot. They do not want to see us a free society, but a mass of soulless slaves.'' ~ Vladimir Putin (Source)
The Russian president has an alternative future in sight, in which nobody on Earth will be considered a second-rate player and all nations are equal and sovereign.
Around this strengthened leadership, Russia is building new geopolitical configurations and balances of power in various regions of the world - from Central Europe, Transcaucasia to West and Central Africa. Over a dozen countries have now applied to join BRICS, including Saudi-Arabia, Algeria, Iran and Argentina. A new reality is taking shape: the uni-polar world is irretrievably receding into the past and a multi-polar world is being born.
The BRICS countries are exploring establishing a new reserve currency. Another interesting development around one of the counter-sanctions employed by Russia is that the Russian central bank has pegged the Ruble to gold. This is the same threat made by Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi just before they were 'taken out', but Russia has the power to actually implement the measure.
We jointly advocate the formation of a just, democratic and multipolar world order based on international law and the central role of the UN, rather than on some rules that someone has invented and is trying to impose on others without even explaining what it is. ~ Vladimir Putin (Source)Russia's foreign minister, Lavrov said: ''There won't be one single ruler in this new reality. All key states with a decisive influence on the world economy and politics will have to come to terms which will ensure the observance of the fundamental principles of the UN Charter, including the main one - the sovereign equality of states.''
China's president Xi expressed readiness to assist Russia in matters of security: "In the face of the tremendous changes of our time on a global scale, we stand ready with our Russian colleagues to set an example of a responsible global power and play a leadership role to put such a rapidly changing world on a path of sustainable and positive development."
Imagine BRICS+ sanctioning the US Government every time they break the multi-polar order rules. The multi-polar world Russia is trying to build means a post-Imperialist globe.
But I'll tell you what the problem is, as a former citizen of the Soviet Union. The problem of empires is that they imagine themselves to be so powerful that they can allow themselves small miscalculations and errors. Some they'll bribe, some they'll scare, some they'll make a deal with, some they'll give glass beads, some they'll frighten with warships — and this will fix problems. But the number of problems continues to grow. There comes a moment when they can no longer cope with them. The United States are making sure-footed strides directly along the path of the Soviet Union. ~ Vladimir Putin (Source)During this year's WEF (World Economic Forum) meeting at Davos, George Soros stated: "The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible". Recently, US Chief of Staff Mark Milley said: ''If we lose in Ukraine, the world order we created 80 years ago will crumble''. - They know the fate of their Empire is being decided in this war.
The US elite refuse to accept a multi polar world order for the benefit of all, and would rather risk everything to maintain their faltering dominance.
The US Empire is having a mental breakdown. Blowing up energy pipelines of their supposed EU allies, preventing sovereign countries from meeting up with Russian officials, pressuring Turkey on which payment systems their banks can use, cope-sanctioning Algeria for buying Russian weapons.
''Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a "religion in reverse" - pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: "By their fruits ye shall know them." These poisonous fruits are already obvious to people, and not only in our country but also in all countries, including many people in the West itself.'' ~ Vladimir Putin (Source)Short on 'soft power', the only thing it has left on its downward trajectory, and by which it can get attention, is explicit threats of violence or other punitive measures.
SATANIC TAKEOVER
Leaders in the West are truly wicked, and their work truly pushes in the opposite direction of life.
[...]Many Western states have taken the way where they deny or reject their own roots, including their Christian roots which form the basis of Western civilization. In these countries, the moral basis and any traditional identity are being denied - national, religious, cultural and even gender identities are being denied or relativized.[...]The current global confrontation is also taking place in the spiritual/religious realm. Russia is at war with an anti-religious Western civilization that is itself at war with God and attempting to overthrow the very foundations of spiritual and moral values: God, the Church, the family, gender, man. The anti-Christian Western "woke" elites are bent on the destruction of Christian Russia, a war against the last Christian bastion.
Putin is unapologetic about Russia's determination to defend Christian values and maintained that it is very important to defend Christianity against the corroding influence of Antichrist-type ideas that are causing people to lose their human dignity.
[...]Western elites have created a culture of "excessive, exaggerated political correctness" that is so destructive it will lead to the downfall of Western civilization if it is not arrested. The excesses and exaggerations of political correctness in these countries indeed leads to serious consideration for the legitimization of parties that promote the propaganda of pedophilia.[...]
[...] There is no distinction as to sex and gender. This leads to moral confusion and a breakdown of society. It is damaging to the history of peoples and leads them astray.[...]
[...]The people in many European states are actually ashamed of their religious affiliations and are indeed frightened to speak about them. Christian holidays and celebrations are abolished or 'neutrally' renamed, as if one were ashamed of those Christian holidays. With this method, one hides away the deeper moral values of these celebrations. And these countries try to force this model onto other countries, globally. I am deeply convinced that this is a direct way to the degradation and primitivization of culture. ~ Vladimir Putin (Source)
A psychopathic elite is bent on recreating humanity in their own deviant image, with one of their goals evidently being to normalize Pedophilia, making Putin's struggle a veritable holy war of good against evil.
FINISHING THE FIGHT
Putin's Russia has the status of the undisputed leader of the "alternative" world, capable, and more importantly, ready to use force where it considers it fundamental and important for its own survival and that of basic human rights.
Metaphorically-speaking, the world is one big schoolyard with a single, big, bad bully. Until now, the majority stood with the bully, either out of fear, cowardice or because they are sadists themselves. Only a few stood against him, but they were largely powerless to change the status quo. Now a newcomer has arrived who has not just stood up to the bully, but given him a black eye. The bully knows he can't take on this newcomer in a fair fight, so he calls on his followers to denounce the newcomer and banish him. Slowly but surely however, more and more of the bully's "allies" are starting to figure out that the bully is scared and weak, and will not defend them should the newcomer also take aim at them over their immoral and spineless behavior. One by one, they begin to rethink their positions.
This simplified explanation of world affairs is not too far off the mark, considering that Putin, according to a former classmate of his, stood up against bullies in the schoolyard. To this day, he is simply acting on his nature.
Is his fight against the psychopathic oligarchy just beginning? Their Imperial menace poses a very serious threat to every sovereign country (there aren't many left). Will Russia fall or will it become the beacon of the new Free World? The coming months/years will undoubtedly make the answer to that question clear for all to see.
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