Russian President Vladimir Putin is not an “unpleasant” man, Emmanuel Macron has said, but that cannot be an excuse for launching a “war” on Ukraine. The French president made the bizarre remark during an appearance on Saturday at Les Rencontres du Papotin, a TV program hosted by a group of journalists with autism.

Macron was grilled by the journalists on assorted issues, including his ties with Putin.

IS PUTIN A THUG? THE CLEAR AND DEFINITIVE ANSWER TO THIS IS AN EMPHATIC NO. THIS IS NOT THE VIEW FROM MOST OF THE WESTERN JOURNALISTS, THOUGH. 

WE KNOW WHY. PUTIN’S “INVASION” OF UKRAINE OR WHAT HE DID TO UKRAINE IS “UNFORGIVABLE”. THIS GIVES US, WESTERNERS, A MORAL HIGH GROUND TO DESPISE PUTIN AND HIS ACOLYTES IN WHATEVER WAYS, AND MANY IF NOT ALL COMMENTARIES IN THE WEST CONDEMN THE GUY FOR WHAT WE THINK HE IS. 

WE DO NOT WANT TO LOOK BEYOND THE VENEER OF OUR DECISIVE REPULSION FOR PUTIN. 

RUSSOPHOBIA HAS BEEN CULTIVATED FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY BY THE WEST, IN VARIOUS WAYS AND STRENGTHS. WE EVEN RESENT THE HELPING HAND OF RUSSIA IN “OUR” DEFEAT OF GERMANY IN WW2. 

WE KNOW THAT THIS HATRED OF RUSSIA COMES FROM EVEN BEFORE RUSSIA BECAME A COMMUNIST COUNTRY/EMPIRE. 

THE ANGLO-SAXON/ZIONIST ALLIANCE DECIDED TO ADOPT A “RELAUNCH” OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE BY 1905. THIS INCLUDED THE GEOPOLITICAL APPROPRIATION OF THE HEARTLAND. THE HEARTLAND IS MADE OF THE RUSSIA FEDERATION AND CHINA. WE WANT TO TAKE OVER THE SPACE, AND THIS BY WHATEVER MEANS, OVERT AND DECEITFUL.

I KEEP MENTIONING THIS BECAUSE IT IS THE SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE — THE UNDERLYING MOTIVE — OF OUR DECISIONS TO HATE PUTIN AND RUSSIA.

THE MORE WE HATE PUTIN, THE MORE WE JUSTIFY OUR LOVE FOR THE NAZIS (WHICH WE DON’T WANT TO ADMIT EXIST) IN UKRAINE. THE NAZIS IN UKRAINE FIGHT, OF COURSE, FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY (OUR STYLE THEREOF) WHICH THE DESPOT PUTIN WANTS TO PREVENT — AS IF RUTHLESS SADIST NAZIS LOVE FREEDOM AND JUSTICE!!!!

WE SPIN A (RIDICULOUS) TALE THAT THE UKRAINIANS HAVE THE RIGHT TO JOIN NATO, HAVE THE RIGHT TO TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AS DEFINED BY OUR HYPOCRITICAL WAYS WHICH INCLUDED MANY EXCEPTIONS TO OUR OWN RULES-BASED ORDER, BUT WHO CARES?. 

“UKRAINE” IS NOT AN INTEGRAL COUNTRY. IT IS SIMILAR TO THE UK BEFORE THE IRISH SECEDED. AS A MULTI-ETHNIC “COUNTRY” IT (IS) WAS HELD TOGETHER BY ITS DIFFICULT PAST — AN ATTACHMENT TO THE USSR, WHILE HALF OF UKRAINE FOUGHT ALONGSIDE THE GERMAN NAZIS AGAINST RUSSIA DURING WW2. 

THIS OLD HISTORY IS STILL CURRENT. NEARLY HALF OF “UKRAINE” IS RUSSIAN. THIS IS THE BETE NOIRE THAT IS AT THE CORE OF WHY WE HATE PUTIN.

PUTIN HAS HAD THE GALL TO WANT TO PROTECT THE LIVES OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE IN “UKRAINE”. THIS IS WHY HE AND THE FRENCH, THE GERMANS AND THE KIEV GOVERNMENT SIGNED THE MINSK AGREEMENTS. THIS “ASSURED” THE AUTONOMY OF RUSSIAN PROVINCES IN “UKRAINE”. WE ALL SHOULD KNOW THAT THIS WAS A CROCK. MERKEL, POROSHENKO AND HOLLAND ADMITTED THAT THESE AGREEMENTS WERE ONLY TO ALLOW THE KIEV GOVERNMENT TO WEAPONISED ITSELF TO THE TEETH — WITH US/UK/NATO/EU HELP — IN ORDER TO TAKE OVER THE “RUSSIAN PROVINCES” CONTRARY TO THE AGREEMENTS. THIS ASSAULT HAD BEEN INKED FOR MARCH 2022. DOCUMENTS (REAL OR FAKE?) ATTEST TO THIS DESIRE.

WE HATED PUTIN THE DAY THIS LITTLE GUY, A FORMER PIDDLY SPY OF THE KGB, CAME TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA IN 2000. 

IN THE ROPES BY 1991, RUSSIA WAS RIPE FOR THE TAKING BY THE WEST. THIS HAS BEEN WELL RECORDED. THE CAPITALISTS OF THE WEST ENCOURAGED THE PLUNDER OF RUSSIA’S RESOURCES BY “OLIGARCHS”. THESE RUSSIAN MILLIONAIRES COULD BECOME BILLIONAIRE OVERNIGHT BY BECOMING THE CONDUIT OF THE WEST'S CAPITAL TAKING OVER RUSSIA.

NO NEED TO SEND A FEW U.S. TROOPS — THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN SEEN AS UNCOUTH AND THREATENING — JUST A FEW BANKS, SOME UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF USAID (CIA RUN) AND OTHER NGOs TO SHOW THE RUSSIANS “HOW IT’S DONE”. SUDDENLY, THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE LOST ALL THEIR COMFORT AND SUBSISTENCE. 40 PER CENT OF RUSSIANS BECAME POOR OVERNIGHT. BOOM.

AND THE WEST ALSO HELP YELTSIN, A DRUNKEN IDIOT, TO DESTROY THE RUSSIA PARLIAMENT IN 1996. ALL WAS ROSY FOR THE WEST: RUSSIA WAS SINKING, NEARLY SUNK AND READY FOR THE TAKINGS….

2000 WAS THE YEAR OF HOPE AND GLORY. THE SYDNEY OLYMPICS WAS A SUCCESS AND A NEW CENTURY WAS BROUGHT IN WITH FANFARE AND FIREWORKS. HUMANITY WAS ALL GOODNESS. WELL, IN RUSSIA THINGS WERE NOT THAT ROSY — EXCEPT PUTIN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA.

WE HATED PUTIN BECAUSE AS SOON AS HE BECAME PRESIDENT, HE PUT A STOP TO THE WESTERN PLUNDER OF RUSSIA. SO WE CALLED HIM A THUG, A GANGSTER, A DESPOT, A  HOOLIGAN, A DICTATOR, AN AUTHORITARIAN, AN OPPRESSOR — AND THIS IMAGE NEVER LEFT HIM DESPITE PUTIN HAVING MADE OVERTURES TO THE WEST, WHILE PROTECTING RUSSIA — SOMETHING HE HAS DONE EVER SINCE. THE WEST MISSED THE BOAT (THE CONQUEST OF THE RUSSIAN PART OF THE HEARTLAND) BECAUSE OF PUTIN. WE HATE THE GUY!. 

PUTIN HAD THE GALL TO NATIONALISE HALF OF ALL RUSSIAN RESOURCES AND TO PLACE THE OLIGARCHS IN PRISON (FOR THIEVING, PLUNDERING THE STATE). FEW WESTERNERS KNEW WHO PUTIN WAS AND WE THOUGHT THAT RECOMMENDED BY YELTSIN, IN A MOMENT OF DRUNKEN TORPOR, HE WOULD BE AN EASY PUSH OVER.

WE HATE PUTIN BECAUSE HE’S FAR MORE INTELLIGENT BY A MILLION MILES THAN THE DECEITFUL MORONS WE HAD ELECTED AND KEEP ELECTING, ESPECIALLY IN THE USA. IMAGINE THE CALIBRE OF OUR PRESIDENTS: CLINTON-THE-SEX-MANIAC, BUSH-THE-JUNIOR-IDIOT, TWO-FACED-OBAMA-THE-WARMONGER, TRUM-THE-DORK, BIDEN-THE-CORRUPT — AND IN THE UK: BLAIR-THE-POODLE, BROWN-THE-SIMPLE, BOJO-THE-CLOWN AFTER A FEW DORKY DUDES LIKE CAMERON-THE-BREXITIONER, AND NOW, THE-RISIBLE-RISHI… IN FRANCE, THEY HAD SARKOZY-THE-VICIOUSLY-CORRUPT, HOLLANDE-THE DUPLICITOUS, AND NOW THE AMERICAN BROWN-NOSER-MACRON. 

ALL IDIOTS IN THEIR OWN RIGHTS… BUT THEY (WERE) ARE OUR IDIOTS WHILE ALL DEPLORED PUTIN-THE-THUG FOR PREVENTING THE COLLAPSED OF RUSSIA. WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THIS: THE COLLAPSE OF RUSSIA BY THE WESTERN ALLIANCE IS STILL ONE OF THE IDIOTIC PROJECT, WHILE WE ALSO PROD CHINA IN THE GONADS. ONE WONDERS HOW THE WEST SURVIVES BEING LED BY THIS BUNCH OF IDIOTIC MISCREANTS… I SUPPOSE THAT THE GERMAN HELD THE SAUCE TOGETHER. MERKEL KNEW “HOW TO PLAY PUTIN”. OF ALL THE WESTERN LEADERS, SHE WAS TOP OF THE RANGE, BUT OUR GUESS HERE IS THAT PUTIN “PLAYED MERKEL” AND HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO KNOW SHE WAS BULLSHITTING FROM TIME TO TIME. 

WE NOW KNOW SHE WAS BULLSHITTING. 

WE HATE PUTIN BECAUSE HE MADE SURE EUROPE BECAME DEPENDENT ON THE CHEAP RUSSIAN GAS… IMAGINE, FOR 20 YEARS —AND ABOUT TO CARRY ON FOR ANOTHER 20 YEARS, EUROPE WAS — AND WOULD HAVE BEEN GETTING RICHER — BUYING CHEAP RUSSIAN GAS! WHAT A TRICKSTER!

THE YANKEE-DOODLE MAN HATED PUTIN, BECAUSE EUROPE WAS NOT SO DEPENDENT ON THE GOOD OLD USA. SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE ABOUT IT. 

LUCKY, THE DORKY US PRESIDENTS HAVE NO REAL POWER EXCEPT BE SICK WITH MOUTH IN THE SHOE DISEASE OR WHATEVER TELEPROMPTER DEMENTIA. 

THE PENTAGON RUNS THE SHOW. INSIDE THE DEEP BOWELS OF THE EMPIRE, THE PENTAGON, ARE KEPT THE MOST UTMOST VILE AND DECEITFUL INTELLIGENT WARMONGERS THERE ARE ON THE PLANET. WAR IS THEIR BUSINESS. THE EVIL PSYCHOLOGY IS BEAUTIFUL. THIS IS WHERE WARS ARE BEING PLANNED, ASSASSINATIONS COORDINATED — AND WHERE FALSE FLAGS OPS ARE CREATED TO PLACE THE BLAME OF THE “ENEMY”.

WE HATE PUTIN BECAUSE HE KNOWS ALL THIS — AND HE KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS DECEIT, ANNOYINGLY BY PLAYING A STRAIGHT BAT. 

AFTER OUR SUCCESSFUL DEMOLITION OF IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND LIBYA, PUTIN STOPPED UP FROM DESTROYING SYRIA — THE THUG. WE SAY SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE, THOUGH THESE DEMOLITIONS WERE BLOODY FAILURES IN INSTALLING OUR WESTERN STYLE OF DEMOCRATIC DESPOTISM IN THESE COUNTRIES, WE KEPT OUR WEAPON INDUSTRIES GOING GANGBUSTERS. THAT IS THE REAL PURPOSE OF WAR: THE MILITARY IS AN INDUSTRY, NOT A CHARITABLE ORG.

WE HATE PUTIN BECAUSE HE STOPPED US IN SYRIA. HE SAW WHAT CRAP WE DID IN LIBYA AND DID NOT LIKE IT ONE BIT. AND WHEN WE STARTED TO FIDDLE IN SYRIA, WE HAD TO BE REMINDED THAT SYRIA AND RUSSIA HAD A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING: TARTUS.

BIDEN-THE-DECEITFUL-CORRUPT WAS PART OF THE AMERICAN GANGSTERS THAT STARTED TO INTERFERE IN “UKRAINE”. BUT IT TAKES A WHILE TO MANIPULATE THE MINDS OF PEOPLE WITH HOLLYWOOD SHOWING HOW GREAT JUSTICERER THE AMERICAN EMPIRE IS, WITHIN AND OUTSIDE. 

INSIDE THE EMPIRE, AS WE KNOW, IS CORRUPT, RACIST, DANGEROUS, UNHEALTHY, FAST-FOOD ADDICTED, IMPRISONED, AGGRESSIVE, EVANGELICALLY EXTREMIST, DUPLICITOUS, DELUDED WITH CARTOONS SUCH AS SUPERMAN AND ILKS, VENGEFUL, DRUGGED, UNDEMOCRATIC, MISINFORMED BY THE STATE, REPRESSED WITH IDEALS OF FREEDOM NEVER REALLY APPLIED. 

BUT THE GLOSSY MANTRA IS POLISHED DAILY: WE ARE EXCEPTIONAL!!!!

MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE THE AMERICAN EMPIRE SUX. WE KNOW THIS. PUTIN KNOWS THIS: WE HATE PUTIN.

SO THE PENTAGON PLACES ITS PAWNS ON THE CHESS BOARD IN UKRAINE. WE SUPPORT THE NAZIS. NOT ALL UKRAINIANS ON THE WEST OF THAT COUNTRY ARE NAZIS, SURE. BUT THE PENTAGON BOFINS WORK ON A PROPAGANDA WITHIN UKRAINE THAT DEMONISED RUSSIA — ESPECIALLY PUTIN THE “THUG”. HE HAS TO BE A THUG BECAUSE ALL RUSSIANS ARE THUGS. 

THE HISTORY OF THIS CAN BE SEEN HERE:

Here is a list of some of the most important original Consortium News stories on Ukraine since 2014.

Robert Parry

Neocons and the Ukraine Coup – Feb. 23, 2014

Who’s Telling the Big Lie on Ukraine? – Sept. 2, 2014

Ready for Nuclear War Over Ukraine? – Feb. 23, 2015

The Mess That Nuland Made – July 13, 2015

Troubling Gaps in the New MH-17 Report – Sept. 28, 2016

Joe Lauria

Tangled Tale of NATO Expansion at the Heart of Ukraine Crisis – Jan. 28, 2022

What a US Trap for Russia in Ukraine Might Look Like – Feb. 4, 2022

Why Putin Went to War – Feb. 24, 2022

On a Knife’s Edge in Ukraine – March 11, 2002

Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This War – March 27, 2022

Defensive West Smears Samarkand Summit – Sept. 21, 2022

On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine – Dec. 29, 2022

Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev – Dec. 29, 2022

Scott Ritter

Pity the Nation – March 7, 2022

Phase Three in Ukraine – May 30, 2022

Reaping the Whirlwind – Sept. 22, 2022

Nuclear High Noon in Europe – Oct. 19, 2022

A ‘Dangerous, Bloody & Dirty Game – Nov. 3, 2022

Merkel Reveals West’s Duplicity – Dec. 5, 2022

Patrick Lawrence

The Great Acquiescence – Glory to Ukraine – April 16, 2022

Ukraine & the Strength of Nonalignment – April 27, 2022

The New Iron Curtain – May 16, 2022

The Imaginary War – July 13, 2022

War as Presentation – Nov. 1, 2022

A War of Rhetoric & Reality – Dec. 27, 2022

Original article posted on Consortium News on December 30, 2022

NATO IS A FASCIST ORGANISATION DESIGNED TO PROTECT EUROPE FROM RUSSIA. NATO ISN’T SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE FORMER COUNTRIES OF THE USSR. THIS WAS THE PACT MADE BETWEEN REAGAN (or was it BUSH SENIOR?) AND GORBACHEV. BOY, THESE RUSSIANS! THEY ARE NAIVE! THEY EVEN DID NOT PUT THIS ON A PIECE OF PAPER THAT WOULD HAVE SOLVED NOTHING ANYWAY, EXCEPT BE A BONFIRE IN A WASTE PAPER BASKET. IT WAS ALL DONE ON A HANDSHAKE!

WE HATE PUTIN BECAUSE HE POINTED OUT THAT NATO WAS HYPOCRITICALLY TRYING TO GET INTO UKRAINE! WE TOLD HIM FUCK OFF! THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT, ESPECIALLY THE NAZI GOVERNMENT THAT LEAD TO THE RUSSIAN SECTIONS OF UKRAINE WANTING TO SECEDE.

SO DESPITE THE MINKS AGREEMENTS, THE KIEV NAZI GOVERNMENT BOMBED THE DONBASS AND KILLED MORE THAN 14,000 RUSSIANS THERE. AND THEY WERE ABOUT TO KILL SOME MORE!!!!

WE HATE PUTIN BECAUSE HE PREEMPTED THE MOVE. “HE DID NOT HAVE TO DO THAT” WE ARE OFTEN REMINDED BY THE DUPLICITOUS DEVIOUS PENTAGONIANS — INCLUDING MACRONLEON. PUTIN COULD HAVE NEGOTIATED! YES HE DID TRY AND WE TOLD HIM TO FUCK OFF! AHAHAHAHA!

WE GAVE HIM ONE CHOICE: ACCEPT THAT THE DONBASS HAS NO RUSSIANS IN IT, THAT CRIMEA HAS NO RUSSIANS IN IT AND THAT NATO IS ALL POWERFUL WITH NUKES 500 KMS FROM MOSCOW. AHAHAHAHAHA!!!

WE HATE PUTIN BECAUSE HE SAID BUGGER THAT!….

AND SUDDENLY THE ENTIRE WESTERN EDIFICE IS ON THE POINT OF COLLAPSE. BUGGER THAT… SO, WE’RE TRYING TO SALVAGE THE FURNITURE WITH MORE HYPOCRISY AND MORE CRAP, BUT THE BEAR TOOK THE SALMON.

GUS LEONISKY

CARTOONIST SINCE 1951 AND RABIT ATHEIST.

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