Russian President Putin delivers his annual address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow © Thomson Reuters
The Hill: Putin says Ukraine war poses existential threat to ‘Russian people’
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a new interview that Russian people may not survive if Western countries succeed in handing a “strategic defeat” to Moscow in its war in Ukraine.
Putin’s comments to state TV channel Russia 1 followed his decision to suspend Russia’s involvement in the last remaining arms control treaty with the United States.
“In today’s conditions, when all the leading NATO countries have declared their main goal as inflicting a strategic defeat on us, so that our people suffer as they say, how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities in these conditions?” Putin said, per Reuters.
Putin accused Western countries of seeking to divide Russia in order to take control of the country’s raw materials. “I do not even know if such an ethnic group as the Russian people will be able to survive in the form in which it exists today,” he said. Read more ....
Update #1: Putin casts war as a battle for Russia's survival (Reuters)
Update #2: Vladimir Putin accuses west of seeking to ‘dismember’ Russia (The Guardian)
WNU Editor: He he is not the only one who is pushing this line .... Russia to be 'torn to pieces' if it stops special op without winning — Medvedev (TASS). More here .... Former Russian president sends warning to US (RT).
As to what is my take.
I disagree with Russian President Putin's view that the war in Ukraine poses an existential threat to the Russian people.
But I am a minority of one. Everyone I know in Russia is now on board with the Kremlin's message that this conflict is an existential threat and can only end with a Russian victory.
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666 will rise u fools sabotage is coming
It does pose a threat and it is of Putin;s making.
The Russian Federation could walk away from the war, consolidate the current gains, and say "fuck it" to the russian populations of Kharkiv/Sumy/Poltava/etc without disastrous consequences. The existential danger is still real, however, for the political party that dare try to do that. The Russian voters won't tolerate such abandonment, as they see it, and so in a sense the war is existential for the political creatures inside the Kremlin.
Pull outta Ukraine and many sanctions will be lifted, and not one foot of Russian soil will be taken, and no harm to any Russian people. Putin is delusional and brainwashing the average Russian to actually believe this.be smarter than this people.
Once again the WNU claiming to speak on behalf of the entire Russian people by calling his opinion a minority.
There Ukrainians throughout the Russian Federation. Thus the Russian Federation must be conquered to protect them.
FTFY
Putin, win or lose land in Ukraien, has already cost his nation because from now on Russia is to be an enemy rogue nation to the West, and there will be more entries into NATO. Russia's new ally is China, though how embracing they may be will be up to China to decide.
The dude has gone full retard. Putin is an existential threat to peace, reason, logic, and truth. No wonder Putin and Xi are attrated to each other. Turds of a feather.
^^ How does the saying go..turds of a feather stink together?
Putin is closet threatening the use of nuclear weapons. Yet again. The only threat to the Russian people as well as the rest of the world is Putin's ego... As always. I'm certain most Russians have also had enough of him. He's wrecking Russia. How many more people, civilians and soldiers on both sides need to die for this power tripper?
The Russo Ukrainian war has determined the relationship with Europe for at least the next 50 years. No matter who wins the war, there will be a negative relationship. The only possible outcome for either side is to Win this thing. When I say win, I mean to crush the other side so hard that it will not rise again until several generations have past.
The Russian Orthodox conservative society is in a war with the Progressive Liberal new Left modernism. The Russians have basically wanted to be left alone. The West like a bully in the school yard has done its best to make life miserable for them. The West has done this because they believe that the Russians are a potential threat to their new progressive modernistic model.
This model is a model both developed and celebrated by the western elites. They are pushing this new philosophy into all aspects of Global society. They do this because it will give "them" more control and ensure their legacy for years beyond count.
They also do this because the model has no moral foundation. It is godless and therefore anything is permissible. They see an amoral society and this is what they want, to be free. Free with all the power money can by. They can make up any rules they want. They get to live just like they want. Moral or immoral, it does not matter because morality is only an opinion. Not a God given mandate. True power emanates from the barrel of a gun.
They, therefore, will control the day, and do as they please, because they will have full support of the state.
Any challenge to this cultural model, or effort to maintain or push a traditional christian type model is a threat and must be destroyed. That is what is happening here.
The Ukrainians have been chosen to be the straw man against Russian christian traditionalism. Ukraine has adopted the Western Progressive mantle and are the tip of the spear for this Cultural Struggle.
So yes, for the Russians and Ukrainians this is a life or death struggle.
BTW if you think some how your side is "winning" you are insane.
DO you control the levers of power?
Do you control the narrative on the Media?
Do you control the Judicial system or security services?
No, you are a nobody, and like the commoners everywhere: the elites considered you a loser.
Who are the winners on your "supposed" side?
Hillary , Nulland, Ghost of McCann, Graham. Biden, Obama., Ryan, McConnell, Soros, Koch brothers and all the rest who have lots of money......yes its a big club and you are not in it.
Yes, Mr "fair and balanced" this is directed to you and skoda.
BTW
You still not have answered the question.
For "fair and Balanced". and Skoda
The questions again, in case you forgot.
Which nation flys the LBGTQ rainbow flag outside its embassies. The Russians?
Which nation has made LBGTQ marriage il-legal? The Americans?
Which nation's leader said that marriage was between a man and a woman? Putin or Biden.
Which nation is teaching and promulgating Critical Race Theory teaching and philosophy?
Which nation is teaching and pushing the 1619 project which states that America was built on racism and slavery?
Which nation has started a program of giving its children puberty blockers and gender transition surgery?
These are the Facts.
Can you deny any one of the above" Unvarnished Truths" that I have written.
No you cannot. Why?? Because the statements are all undeniably True.
The Russians are have become "the Christian Nation" and We Have become "the Godless Communists"
It is the world turned on its head.
Not my doing, I merely report.
Oh what foolishness.
Did anyone else watch his speech? This man simply won't back down. He doesn't want western influence. I don't blame him. On the other hand, most of his views are radical. He his keeping the Russian economy a float. from what I saw the Russian people love him but also hate war. They are in pain.
The Russian people see this war for what it is, an attack on them by the NATO block.
Sleep is king
U fools
War is getting out of control
God and the book of life's
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