MECOURIS STARTS TALKING ABOUT PUTIN’S BIG SPEECH TODAY AT 14 MINUTES.
He explains its content and importance before providing clips of Putin delivering the speech.
The full text of the speech may be found here MIRAGE 28.10.22
It is a very long speech exceeded only by a 2 hour question and answer period which follows it.
I can’t help but contrast this openness to the cancel culture of the West.
And here we go again…The Kindergartners are back in the pilot seat once again.
Ukraine has launched the largest drone attack in the war, targeting the Russian Black Sea Fleet, even as it was acting as the fleet was actively involved in protecting the naval convoys carrying Ukrainian grain shipments to Western markets. Consequently, Russia has terminated its agreement to continue the grain shipments further, citing its inability to guarantee the safety of the civilian fleet against such a massive attack. The arrangement for the grain corridor, implemented under international cooperation to ship Ukrainian grain to market was set to expire in mid-November pending renewal, but has been ended prematurely due to the Ukrainian attack.
Additionally, Russia is claiming that this attack was
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Indeed, I did not miss this irony, nor have I seen any Western response which can honestly dispute Putin’s critique of the West, because it can not be honestly disputed.
Thanks for such an extensive comment. Putin’s speech is certainly epic.
Isn’t it ironic that Putin, a former KGB official and the devil to some, has to defend democracy and free speech, whereas the Democratic Party and the EU are destroying it.
I recently took the time to go back and read Putin’s speech from 2007. It is a frankly honest statement of concern of where he saw the future heading, and in fact, where it has actually led. This latest speech by Putin is a phenomenal statement and a sad reproach against the West’s destruction of their own position in leading the world in the post Soviet era. Their hard fought and yet unearned victory over the Soviets coupled with the reckless Western leaders led the world to a very unfortunate realization that power of the West was too great to be left without some measure of resistance to their wanton acts of destruction around the world. Indeed, the lack of acting as good stewards of the power they held has actually led to the resistance to their position as the world’s leaders.
From Serbia to Lybia to Iraq to the Arab Spring to Ukraine, and elsewhere, they have had a devastating effect of wielding their power and have now ultimately created the antidote for their aggressive nature while exercising such poor policy actions such as these, and this antidote has finally been fashioned with the rise of the multi-polar world. None of this needed to come to be, but a was result of irrational men taking irrational actions against better leaders than themselves. As these poor leaders still maintain no small measure of power in the West, we are facing a clear and present danger that they might continue to exercise their lack of good judgement in an effort to maintain what they have already lost, and which they refuse to recognize as having already taken place, as Alexander notes.
The people of the West must rise to the moment and take back control of their govts, replacing these corrupted leaders and the long corrupted institutions which have supported these reckless actions which have taken place over the past thirty years. Indeed, the West is long past the point of needing some form of peaceful intervention to halt the expanding corruption and the resulting increase in their poor governance, much as took place with the self reflection of the Soviets and their quiet move towards self destructing their Soviet infrastructure. Of course, with the Soviets, it was the leadership which recognized the rot within their system and the need for reform, while in the West, the rot within the system unfortunately is what is maintaining the current leaders in their position of leadership.
Hence, it is upto the people of the West to take back the control they have lost with their quiet acceptance of their long corrupted systems of govt and seek a better course for themselves and the world as a whole. It is time for the people of the Western Democracies to earn their claim of being democratically governed, or, failing to achieve this goal, they are facing the consequences which history has shown is too often the fate of people who allow themselves to be led by tyrants who are overwhelmingly unworthy of controlling the power they wield.