Putin is delivering another speech packed with all the familiar paranoia & lies. He says the “special op” is going according to plan. Kyiv wants foreign help to develop nukes. Russia isn’t occupying Ukraine. Moscow needed to go beyond Donbas. Kyiv commits terrorist attacks.
The West is an “empire of lies” (he loves this term) that wants to split Russian society with a “fifth column,” Russians abroad are persecuted, the West wants to dismember Russia. All the old favorites.
He says half the world (ie the developing world) hasn’t joined the U.S.-led sanctions against Russia, and that’s were the planet’s future lies anyway, so screw the West, etc.
Appealing to “ordinary people in the West,” Putin says the economic blowback from sanctions (he’s talking about fuel prices) are the result of Western ruling elites’ profit-seeking actions, and now they’re blaming innocent Russia for their own mistakes and reckless ambition.
Oh yeah, and Putin also repeated Russia’s ludicrous claims about the Pentagon’s biolabs in Ukraine and secret development of coronavirus weapons aimed at Russia (lol okay), offering this WMD nonsense as another excuse for the invasion.
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