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Putin has said, without providing any evidence, that in the west “even paedophilia is announced as a normal thing.”
He says the west recognizes same sex marriage. He says “That’s fine. They’re adults. They have the right to live their lives. We are always very tolerant about this in Russia.”
But, he says, scripture says marriage is between a man and a woman, and he also cites media reports that the Anglican church was considering gender neutral terms for God.
This is very familiar territory for a Putin speech. He accuses the west of trying to destabilise family life in Russia.
Putin claims the Ukrainian people had become “hostages of their western masters” who ooccupied the country in political, economic and military terms. He says “the regime is not serving their national interest. They are serving the interests of foreign powers.”
He says the west is trying to turn a local conflict into a global conflict and “we will react in an appropriate way. We are talking about the existence of our country.”
As is often the case in his speeches, Putin is now giving a history lesson, and says that in the 1930s the west opened the door to Nazi Germany, and this goes back even further. He is now talking about the Austro-Hungarian empire.
He says the west supported “an anti-state coup” in Ukraine in 2014. He says that one of the Ukrainian army units is named after a German Nazi unit, and that “those in power choose to close their eyes to this.”
Putin accuses the west of “an endless flow of accusations against Russia” at the recent Munich security conference, and says “the west released the genie from the bottle” as a result of wars, and accuses the west of perpetrating multiple coups.
“We had no doubt” Putin says, that in February 2022 “everything was prepared” for a punitive action by Kyiv on Donbas. “All of this was completely against the documents accepted by the UN security council”.
“I would like to repeat, they started the war, and we used force in order to stop it” Putin says.
He said the objective of the west was unlimited power, and that Sevastapol was obviously the next target after Donbas.
The Russian president said they were open to dialogue with the west and were open to an equal system of security, but “in response we were getting dishonest answers” and specific actions to expand Nato and deploy new anti-missile systems in Europe. He says “the whole planet is dotted” with US bases.
Putin has started by setting out why Russia started what he terms is the “special military operation”, accusing the west and Nato of publicly talking about supplying nuclear weapons to Ukraine in advance of Russian’s invasion. He accused the west of “playing a dirty game” with people and with Ukraine. He cited Yugoslavia, Iraq and Syria and “centuries of colonialism and dictatorship”.
He said the west deceived their own people with “total unprincipled lies” about what was happening in Donbas.
theguardian
He says the west recognizes same sex marriage. He says “That’s fine. They’re adults. They have the right to live their lives. We are always very tolerant about this in Russia.”
But, he says, scripture says marriage is between a man and a woman, and he also cites media reports that the Anglican church was considering gender neutral terms for God.
This is very familiar territory for a Putin speech. He accuses the west of trying to destabilise family life in Russia.
Putin claims the Ukrainian people had become “hostages of their western masters” who ooccupied the country in political, economic and military terms. He says “the regime is not serving their national interest. They are serving the interests of foreign powers.”
He says the west is trying to turn a local conflict into a global conflict and “we will react in an appropriate way. We are talking about the existence of our country.”
As is often the case in his speeches, Putin is now giving a history lesson, and says that in the 1930s the west opened the door to Nazi Germany, and this goes back even further. He is now talking about the Austro-Hungarian empire.
He says the west supported “an anti-state coup” in Ukraine in 2014. He says that one of the Ukrainian army units is named after a German Nazi unit, and that “those in power choose to close their eyes to this.”
Putin accuses the west of “an endless flow of accusations against Russia” at the recent Munich security conference, and says “the west released the genie from the bottle” as a result of wars, and accuses the west of perpetrating multiple coups.
“We had no doubt” Putin says, that in February 2022 “everything was prepared” for a punitive action by Kyiv on Donbas. “All of this was completely against the documents accepted by the UN security council”.
“I would like to repeat, they started the war, and we used force in order to stop it” Putin says.
He said the objective of the west was unlimited power, and that Sevastapol was obviously the next target after Donbas.
The Russian president said they were open to dialogue with the west and were open to an equal system of security, but “in response we were getting dishonest answers” and specific actions to expand Nato and deploy new anti-missile systems in Europe. He says “the whole planet is dotted” with US bases.
Putin has started by setting out why Russia started what he terms is the “special military operation”, accusing the west and Nato of publicly talking about supplying nuclear weapons to Ukraine in advance of Russian’s invasion. He accused the west of “playing a dirty game” with people and with Ukraine. He cited Yugoslavia, Iraq and Syria and “centuries of colonialism and dictatorship”.
He said the west deceived their own people with “total unprincipled lies” about what was happening in Donbas.
theguardian
