I've tried to explain to people in the West what is actually happening in Russia but seeing is believing.
This is from yesterday's state-organised rally in Red Square. Remember, nothing gets said at these without approval from the top. The very top.
It's time for Western leaders to unplug the fingers from their ears and understand what's happening. A dark time is coming.
BTW, yes it's true that the crowd seems lacking in enthusiasm. This is because these are mostly state employees bussed in for the occasion. But to focus on this is to miss the point. In Russia, the opinions of the plebs are entirely irrelevant to what the country does.
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I have a lot of new followers after my translation of Putin's speech, many of whom appear confused about who I am and what I am about.
First of all, the fact that Putin makes some correct observations about the West does not mean that the overall message is even remotely true.
I am not going to write a whole thread debunking his endless lies. In my experience, everyone has already made their mind up so they'll happily believe that "Russia led the anti-colonial movement" without ever asking themselves how Russia went from a grand duchy to the biggest...
...country in the world. 🤣🤣🤣
The notion that the West "plundered Russia's riches" is the most hilarious thing ever. I was there in the 90s and it wasn't foreigners shooting each other for control of Russia's natural resource industries and it wasn't foreigners who ended up
I wish every single person in the West would listen to Putin's speech. Obviously, that won't happen so let me summarise as a professional translator for 10+ years. He states, as he has done from the outset, what his intentions and complaints are in the plainest terms possible.🧵
Setting aside his brief comments on the recent "referendums", he spends most of his speech discussing the West. His primary complaint isn't NATO expansion, which gets only a cursory mention. The West is greedy and seeks to enslave and colonise other nations, like Russia.
The West uses the power of finance and technology to enforce its will on other nations. To collect what he calls the "hegemon's tax". To this end the West destabilises countries, creates terrorist enclaves and most of all seeks to deprive other countries of sovereignty.
The fact that my views are considered controversial is a reflection of how mad society has become:
I want maths teachers to teach maths, history teachers to teach history, literature teachers to educate children about the best English writers, poets and playwrights. 1/
I want the police to investigate actual crimes like rape, burglary, stabbings and muggings, not paint their cars rainbow colours and police jokes, banter in WhatsApp groups and offensive tweets. /2
I want the media to tell me the facts of what is going on and let me decide what to think about it. If I want a journalist's opinion, which I mostly don't, I'll read opinion columns. Just tell me what's happening./3
The vast majority of people are against discrimination of any kind. That's why they oppose it, even when told that we need new discrimination to make up for past discrimination.
For example:
The vast majority of people are against racism. That's why they oppose it even...
...against the majority group under the guise of compensation. They are quiet about it because they don't want to get involved in toxic debates but behind closed doors they strongly oppose it.
The vast majority of people are against sexism. That's why they oppose it even...
...when it's applied to men. Most women want to be safe from male violence, to be treated equally and paid fairly but they don't hate men and don't want to see men (their fathers, husbands, sons) denigrated or discriminated against.