#PUTIN speech

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[ms-cellanies]

Putin gave a 4 hour speech today.  Nicole Wallace on MSNBC played a portion of his speech.  This was part of what she showed & below is from the NYT article:   https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/27/world/russia-ukraine-war-news.

Many of the themes of the Russian leader’s speech were familiar, but they took on particular resonance given the coming midterm elections in the United States and growing discontent in Europe over the costs of the war.

“There are at least two Wests,” Mr. Putin said.

One, he said, is a West of “traditional, mainly Christian values” with which Russians feel kinship. But, he said, “there’s another West — aggressive, cosmopolitan, neocolonial, acting as the weapon of the neoliberal elite,” and trying to impose its “pretty strange” values on the rest of the world.

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CHRISTIAN VALUES jumped out at me.  The Russian military have beaten, tortured, castrated & murdered many Ukrainian men.  They also beat, raped & killed civilians, both men & women as well as torturing, beating, raping & killing Ukrainian military women.  The Russians have also RAPED CHILDREN & BABIES.  Tell me how any of those actions are CHRISTIAN VALUES.  Also explain to me why so many Christian Americans are pro-Putin.  

IF YOU STILL CAN’T DECIDE WHO TO VOTE FOR IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION THEN I CHALLENGE THOSE CHRISTIANS READING THIS TO VOTE FOR THE ACTUAL GOOD CANDIDATES, THE CARING CANDIDATES, THE HONEST CANDIDATES & THOSE ARE THE DEMOCRATS.

[kneedeepincynade]

New article is out,this time we briefly talk about the Carlson interview with Putin

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Putin's 7th January (Orthodox New Year, 2023) Speech

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[liberty1776]

Victory Day

[lilithism1848]

[agentfascinateur]

Somewhere there's a hauntingly beautiful symphony where Pavel Kushnir belongs.

Rest in peace 🕊️

Kushnir was born in Tambov, central Russia, where his father Mikhail was a pianist and educator, and his mother a music school teacher. He started playing piano at the age of two and, at just 17, gave a remarkable two-and-a-half-hour concert featuring the 24 preludes and fugues by composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Later that year, he was admitted to the Moscow Conservatory, where classmate Julia Wertman says he cultivated a “dissident image”, often wearing a shabby coat and black clothes, with a half-litre bottle of vodka sticking out of a pocket. Asked in a 2005 interview what composition he would never perform, he replied: "The Russian national anthem."

Arrested for 4 social media posts objecting to the war in Ukraine. Died from a hunger strike in protest. 💜

[galerymod]

Just imagine for a moment that we could all enjoy such a beautiful habitat that provides us with all the resources we need! Unfortunately, there are some people who stand in the way of this wonderful possibility. These individuals have big ambitions and an addiction to meaningless big-manism. But we can overcome them!

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What is noteworthy is the tendency to focus on past experiences in a world facing future challenges that can only be addressed collectively.

The increasing nationalism is a clear sign that humanity is ready to not learn from history! It's time to make sure we don't end up in the next catastrophe for humanity.

Please don't say you didn't know or see it – it was right in front of you and you're ready to make a change!

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[workersolidarity]

🇷🇺 🚨 HIGHLIGHTS FROM PRESIDENT PUTIN'S SPEECH AT THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE'S COUNCIL NOV. 28TH

Latest statements made by Vladimir Putin during his address to the World Russian People's Council:

▪️ It is Russia that has blocked the path of those who are attempting world domination, we are fighting for the freedom of the whole world, Vladimir Putin said.

▪️ Without a sovereign, strong Russia, a strong and stable world order is impossible.

▪️ We regard any outside interference as aggressive actions against Russia, and we will respond to this accordingly.

▪️ Any attempts to sow discord and split our society are a betrayal, we will not allow anyone to divide Russia.

▪️ The sanctions blitzkrieg has failed, Russia will increase support for sovereign entrepreneurship.

Addressing the Russian People's Council headed by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Tuesday, November 28th, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is on the forefront of the effort to build a more fair, stable world order, which can only be created through sovereignty.

"I would like to emphasize that without a sovereign, strong Russia, no lasting, stable world order is possible," Russian President Vladimir Putin told the audience.

"It is our country specifically that is at the forefront of creating a more equitable world order," Putin said.

"As has happened more than once in history, it has fallen to our country today, to the Russian World, to block the path of those who claim world domination and 'exceptionalism.' We are fighting for the freedom of not only Russia, but the entire world."

"Today, Russophobia and other forms of racism and neo-Nazism have become practically the official ideology of Western ruling elites," Putin said.

"They are directed not only against ethnic Russians, but also against all the peoples of Russia - Tatars, Chechens, Avars, Tuvinians, Bashkirs, Buryats, Yakuts, Ossetians, Jews, the Ingush, the Mari, and the Altai people."

"There are many of us, I won't name everyone now, but I will repeat that this is directed against all the peoples of Russia," Putin said.

"The West, in principle, does not need such a large and multinational country as Russia. Our diversity and unity of cultures, traditions, languages and ethnic groups simply does not fit the logic of Western racists and colonialists, their cruel system of total depersonalization, dissociation, suppression and exploitation."

"It is for this reason that they've started playing their old tune about Russia being a 'prison of nations,' about Russians themselves being a slavish nation. We have heard this many times over the centuries," he said.

Putin also stressed that Russia's adversaries have often used political chaos to sew discord, in order to "dismember and plunder Russia, if not by force, then through chaos."

"We have become stronger. Our historic regions have returned to Russia. Society is abandoning the superficial and turning to its true, authentic values," Putin suggested.

Putin, emphasizing sovereignty once more, called it a "precondition" for true freedom for the people of Russia "Because in our tradition, a person cannot feel free if his loved ones, children and homeland are not free. And it is precisely this true freedom that our boys, men, soldiers officers and daughters of the fatherland are now defending. A free people who understand their responsibility for today and for future generations."

Putin called this struggle for future generations a struggle for "national liberation" and is defending "the safety and well-being of our people, the highest historical right to be Russia - a strong, independent power, a nation civilization."

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[amanda35alice]

[tomorrowusa]

Trump is trying to normalize his fascist rantings by just repeating them a lot. That way they are no longer considered news and subject to outrage. But it still allows him to fire up his unhinged and violent base.

Donald Trump, just weeks after using the fascist terminology “vermin” to describe sections of American society he dislikes, again declared at a New Hampshire rally that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”. [ ... ] “They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done,” Trump told the crowd. “They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America … but all over the world. “They’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.” It is the second time Trump has used the poisoned blood phrase, which has been widely condemned for echoing white supremacist rhetoric. The first time he did so, in October, Joe Biden said the former president, who faces 91 criminal charges, was starting to use language heard in Nazi Germany.

Donald Trump is the true poisoner of public discourse in the United States. Things were notably nicer before 2015.

Trump probably is a cinch for the GOP nomination. Even if Nikki Haley does surprisingly well in New Hampshire, that will have little impact on Republican primaries in places like Texas, Tennessee, or Missouri. Trump's rhetoric is focused on the general election.

Mehdi Hasan describes Trump's strategy for fascist normalization.

The broadcaster Mehdi Hasan said on Saturday: “Classic Trump: say something crazy outrageous, neo-Nazi-like and it gets headlines, creates outrage. “So wait a little. Then say it again, no one notices, no coverage, and it gets normalized and mainstreamed. “Let’s be clear: migrants ‘poisoning the blood’ is Hitler rhetoric.”

In this rally Trump was quoting Vladimir Putin. That should give us some idea of whose best interests would be served by a Trump victory. Putin and Trump are certainly on the same page regarding hating liberal democracy.

Trump quotes Putin condemning American democracy, praises autocrat Orban

“Donald Trump sees American democracy as a sham and he wants to convince his followers to see it that way too,” said Jennifer Mercieca, a professor at Texas A&M University who researches democracy and rhetoric. “Putin hates western values like democracy and the rule of law, so does Trump.” Trump quoted Putin, the dictatorial Russia president who invaded neighboring Ukraine, criticizing the criminal charges against Trump, who is accused in four separate cases of falsifying business records in a hush money scheme, mishandling classified documents, and trying to overturn the 2020 election results. In the quotation, Putin agreed with Trump’s own attempts to portray the prosecutions as politically motivated. [ ... ] He went on to align himself with Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who has amassed functionally autocratic power through controlling the media and changing the country’s constitution. Orban has presented his leadership as a model of an “illiberal” state and has opposed immigration for leading to “mixed race” Europeans. Democratic world leaders have sought to isolate Orban for eroding civil liberties and bolstering ties with Putin. [ ... ] In the speech, Trump also repeated his own inflammatory language against undocumented immigrants, by accusing them of “poisoning the blood of our country” — a phrase that immigrant groups and civil rights advocates have condemned as reminiscent as Hitler in his book “Mein Kampf,” in which he told Germans to “care for the purity of their own blood” by eliminating Jews.

Calling out Trump and pointing out his dictator comments will have no effect on his hardcore MAGA fanatics. But the more wishy-washy Trump-curious voters might be a bit more open to well targeted criticisms – as long as we don't use the same type of rhetoric that liberals are usually associated with. In close elections, small groups of voters count a lot.

[nerdykeith]

This is a dark moment for human rights, Russia has approved so called “LGBTQ Propaganda” nationwide.

This totalitarian attitude towards the LGBTQ is a pure denial of freedom of speech, a denial of one’s freedom to express oneself and a total discrimination against LGBTQ. Life really is bleak for LGBTQ Russians.

Quite rightfully this law is being criticised by many human rights organisations. Calling it “absurd” and an attack on anything the Russian government deems to be too western and progressive.

At a time when most of the world isn’t looking too fondly at the Russian state, this only adds more fuel to the fire. At this point it is difficult to say what can be done to tackle this outrageous attack on LGBTQ persons in Russia. I just hope human rights organisations can put some sort of pressure on the state to respect all their citizens.

[amerasdreams]

my 12 year old niece said that they don't allow kids to speak about Putin, Hitler, or Kim Jong Un at school. If this is true, this is limiting free speech (they are kids and they need more limits, but this just doesn't make sense).

simply speaking about something doesn't mean glorifying it! Kids shouldn't have whole subjects cut out of discussion -- that's not how you learn to find the truth.

[jbfly46]

“The West ... began its colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, and then followed the slave trade, the genocide of Indian tribes in America, the plunder of India, of Africa, the wars of England and France against China ...

"What they did was hooking entire nations on drugs, deliberately exterminate entire ethnic groups. For the sake of land and resources they hunted people like animals. This is contrary to the very nature of man, truth, freedom and justice.”

[liberty1776]

The West’s Rules are “A bunch of nonsense”