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Feb 21, 2023Liked by Rurik Skywalker

when the country is mired in a protracted war, under assault from the American Empire and still has many people, especially those in power, who would prefer to collaborate with the Empire a very different speech was needed. Granted, I can't read it in its original Russian but recaps of Putin's greatest hits isn't particularly inspiring and could have been written by an intern or AI from old speeches. Yeah, there was the START issue but are the families of soldiers going to be excited because Russia pulled out of START? Sounds rather abstract to me.

The expectations of the 5d crowd are a good tell of what should have been said. To be inspiring, there should have been a vision of the next stage of building a multipolar world and/or the war. However, it is hard to set out a clear vision of where you are going with the war when you clearly don't want to fight it.

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Feb 21, 2023Liked by Rurik Skywalker

A nothing-burger of a speech. IMO this just reinforces your assertions, Rolo.

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Feb 21, 2023Liked by Rurik Skywalker

Translation of the speech: I’m getting pretty nervous. What do you guys like? We should you give you guys more money. Oh yeah that Soviet Union thing, maybe there’s some gold nuggets there I promise we’ll go to the dump and look around see what we can find. Those pesky oligarchs, even though we don’t control them hehe we’ll tell them what to do soon. Oh yeah we have nukes, we can build even more. Am I bluffing? Maybe.

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Feb 21, 2023Liked by Rurik Skywalker

At this point, I really wonder if peace is the best option. Ukraine isn't going away as a threat, all they have really achieved is squandering the blood and treasure of the collective Slavic world. The level of complacency within the Russian government while good men are out there dying makes me sick.

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Alex Jones' front page shows a nuclear explosion with the headline "Biden Declares War on Russia in Psychotic Speech in Warsaw, While Putin Warns West Nuclear War is Imminent"

Both Putin and Biden are just trying to scare us while they're up to something sinister

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If there was going to be anything of relevance said, it would've been discussed heavily in the lead up to his speech. Since there were no headlines in RT, GlobalResearch or anything saying "Putin expected to announce ___ in speech" I didn't expect anything either.

Withdrawing from START doesn't seem like a big deal seeing as the West never honors any agreements anyway.

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Context here - it is unavoidably a set piece - equivalent to USA "State of the Union" - ceremonial, delivered to probably mostly brain dead "lawmakers" - So, not the right place or time to pull out the Dostoevsky quotes or speculate on the satanic underpinnings of Western policy (while your central bank rushes ahead with CBDC).

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Feb 21, 2023·edited Feb 21, 2023

Two possibilities are realistic:

Putins position.

Position like from PaulCraigRoberts or EwaldStadler.

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Edward Slavsquats analizis leads to the result that we need more war, much more war: Radical and total, totaler and radicaler, because only so you could harm the superstructure.😜🤗😁 Even nuclear!

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I am not sure what did anyone expect to say, to disclose the next military intentions? Where is this defeatism coming from? I recommend listening to Andrei Martyanov. He has a great advice and few choice words for all detractors and bloggers.

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Feb 24, 2023·edited Feb 24, 2023

OK, I begin to see the pattern. The Italians running Gladio ops early on recognized the effectiveness of a Strategy of Tension to control the population. The basic idea was to create continual street conflicts, under a smokescreen of secondary political differences, to serve the primary goal, which was to make the population amenable to strong dictatorial government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension

It's beginning to look like the war's function is to make the populations of both Russia AND the west be more amenable toward accepting autocratic policies being imposed by their respective governments. The point isn't to win the war, but to create an international atmosphere favorable to repression, by both sides, under different disguises.

Nutty, perhaps, but it explains why the war has been such a stalemate.

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Not sure what you want from a speech. Nothing SAID will change much. So, he's at least intervened in solidarity with the "pro-Russians" - finally - but doesn't mean he's ready to make a clean break with the "West". IMHO- what is needed in a leader now would be somebody of Lenin's stature. Not in the cards though.

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Well, Putin announced the suspension of Russian adhesion to the START (STrategic ARms Treaty) provisions, which is a very decisive step to take, if he was inclined in the direction of intensifying hostilities.

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