19-03-2014, 05:02 PM
Ah that old Rigby-Guyatt counterpoint is back - tonic for jaded old souls in an insane world.
Official translation of the entire Putin speech here. I've added headings to aid readability and citation; otherwise its verbatim from the Kremlin.
And anyone doubting Putins genuine popularity should watch the two included videos. I sense that the Ukraine / Crimea events and Putin's reactions to them are game-changers. Russia is clearly totally pissed off with US-NATO arrogance and deceit and has acted accordingly
My big worry is that all this was VERY thoroughly gamed by the CIA-DOD before it appeared on anyone's radar and that they will now push Russia even harder to secure a cassus belli that looks just a might more credible - developments in Syria are ominous for example.
Official translation of the entire Putin speech here. I've added headings to aid readability and citation; otherwise its verbatim from the Kremlin.
And anyone doubting Putins genuine popularity should watch the two included videos. I sense that the Ukraine / Crimea events and Putin's reactions to them are game-changers. Russia is clearly totally pissed off with US-NATO arrogance and deceit and has acted accordingly
My big worry is that all this was VERY thoroughly gamed by the CIA-DOD before it appeared on anyone's radar and that they will now push Russia even harder to secure a cassus belli that looks just a might more credible - developments in Syria are ominous for example.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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