Thread by @LtTimMcMillan

UPDATE: Putin emerged from Führerbunker today to give a fiery speech to Russian cabinet members, while looking like an angry drunk.
Some highlights:
*Tactics of military operation are fully justified and doing everything to avoid losses among the civilian population.

(2) * "To avoid bloodshed, the Kyiv authorities were asked not to engage in hostilities, but simply to withdraw their troops from Donbas. They didn't want to. Well, it's their decision."

*Compared the West to Nazi Germany pre-WWII

* Sanctions are acts of "economic aggression," "economic war" and "barbaric and aggressive."

*Ridiculous claims about the Pentagon’s biolabs in Ukraine and secret development of coronavirus weapons aimed at Russia.

*The West is an “empire of lies”

(3) *Russians must "protect themselves from the Western fifth column."

*Admitted that Russia will face massive inflation, unemployment, and "difficult days ahead," following economic sanctions.

*Contradicting previous statements, "the economy will remain stable."

(4)
"If our troops operated only in Donbas republics, this would not be a *FINAL SOLUTION*, would not lead to peace and would not eliminate threat to Russia... the armed conflict would drag on endlessly, fueled by the revanchist hysteria of the Kyiv regime."