Given the level of censorship which has been exerted
on the media of the so-called West with an ever-increasing grip
for now at least six years, there is a very strong likelihood that
the following speech the president of the Russian Federation made
on 7th July as part of a meeting of leaders of the
State Duma and of the heads of the party factions at the Kremlin
was not mentioned in any of the West’s state policy aligned news
outlets. This is why I am going to quote an excerpt from the
Kremlin’s own transcript of the whole session – which I have not
read myself in its entirety as I was interested only in Mr Putin’s
remarks about the new geopolitical framework (i.e. ‘the
beginning of the transition from liberal-globalist American
egocentrism to a truly multipolar world’) which he believes
will come about as a result of the conflict which, he claims,
Russia was pushed into by the aggressive actions of what he
describes as ‘the so-called collective West’. Please note that I
concur fully with his justification that Russia was left with no
other choice but to intervene. Now, as to the president of the
Russian Federation’s claims ‘that they
want to defeat us on the battlefield. Well, what can I say? Let
them try [...] we have not
started anything in earnest yet’ and that
Russia’s military operation in Ukraine will mark the end of the
Pax Americana as it were, well, time will tell
whether it was foolish bravado on the part of Mr Putin or simply a
display of his confidence in both Russia’s military and coalition
building capabilities based on his (and/or his advisers’)
assessment of the situation.
https://t.me/PutinDirect/32
Some links:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68836
https://web.archive.org/web/20220712002803/http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68836
Russia hasn’t really started anything yet – Putin (Russia Today)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220707172601/https://www.rt.com/russia/558593-putin-russia-hasnt-started-yet/
‘West doesn’t need country like Russia’: highlights of Putin’s meeting with Duma leaders
https://web.archive.org/web/20220707203319/https://sputniknews.com/20220707/west-doesnt-need-country-like-russia-highlights-of-putins-meeting-with-duma-leaders-1097082522.html
President Putin made some remarks on Ukraine
https://web.archive.org/web/20220715231733/https://archive.ph/DF3ZQ
President Putin is right: the US’ world order is doomed
https://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=3065
Some links:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68836
https://web.archive.org/web/20220712002803/http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68836
Russia hasn’t really started anything yet – Putin (Russia Today)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220707172601/https://www.rt.com/russia/558593-putin-russia-hasnt-started-yet/
‘West doesn’t need country like Russia’: highlights of Putin’s meeting with Duma leaders
https://web.archive.org/web/20220707203319/https://sputniknews.com/20220707/west-doesnt-need-country-like-russia-highlights-of-putins-meeting-with-duma-leaders-1097082522.html
President Putin made some remarks on Ukraine
https://web.archive.org/web/20220715231733/https://archive.ph/DF3ZQ
President Putin is right: the US’ world order is doomed
https://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=3065
Address by the President of the Russian Federation delivered on 24th February.
(censored by the media of the West)
https://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/geopolitics/ukraine/address-by-the-president-of-the-russian-federation_24-2-2022.html
AN EXCERPT FROM THE
OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF WHAT MR PUTIN SAID DURING THE STATE DUMA
MEETING
[...]
The so-called collective West led by the United States has been extremely aggressive towards Russia for decades. Our proposals to create a system of equal security in Europe have been rejected. Initiatives for cooperation on the issue of missile defence were rejected. Warnings about the unacceptability of NATO expansion, especially at the expense of the former republics of the Soviet Union, were ignored. Even the idea of Russia’s possible integration into this North Atlantic alliance at the stage of our, as it seemed then, cloudless relations with NATO, apparently, seemed absurd to its members.
Why? Just because they do not need a country like Russia, that is why. That is why they supported terrorism and separatism in Russia, and internal destructive forces and a ‘fifth column’ in our country. All of them are still receiving unconditional support from the collective West.
We are being told, we hear some people say that we started the war in Donbass, in Ukraine. No, the war was unleashed by the collective West, which organised and supported the unconstitutional armed coup in Ukraine in 2014, and then encouraged and justified genocide against the people of Donbass. The collective West is the direct instigator and the culprit of what is happening today.
If the West wanted to provoke a conflict in order to move on to a new stage in the fight against Russia and a new stage in containing our country, we can say that it has succeeded to a certain extent. A war was unleashed, and the sanctions were imposed. Under normal circumstances, it would probably be difficult to accomplish this.
But here is what I would you like to make clear. They should have realised that they would lose from the very beginning of our special military operation, because this operation also means the beginning of a radical breakdown of the US-style world order. This is the beginning of the transition from liberal-globalist American egocentrism to a truly multipolar world based not on self-serving rules made up by someone for their own needs, behind which there is nothing but striving for hegemony, not on hypocritical double standards, but on international law and the genuine sovereignty of nations and civilisations, on their will to live their historical destiny, with their own values and traditions, and to align cooperation on the basis of democracy, justice and equality.
Everyone should understand that this process cannot be stopped. The course of history is inexorable, and the collective West’s attempts to impose its new world order on the rest of the world are doomed.
At the same time, I want to say and emphasise that we have many supporters, including in the United States and Europe, and even more so on other continents and in other countries. And there will be more, no doubt about that.
To reiterate, even in the countries that are still satellites of the United States, there is a growing understanding that their ruling elites’ blind obedience to their overlord, as a rule, does not necessarily coincide with their national interests, and most often simply and even radically contradicts them. Eventually, everyone will have to face this growing sentiment in society.
Today, these ruling elites are raising the degree to which they manipulate the public consciousness right before our eyes. The ruling classes of the Western countries, which are supranational and globalist in nature, realised that their policies are increasingly detached from reality, common sense and the truth, and they have started resorting to openly despotic methods.
The West, which once declared such principles of democracy as freedom of speech, pluralism and respect for dissenting opinions, has now degenerated into the opposite: totalitarianism. This includes censorship, media bans, and the arbitrary treatment of journalists and public figures.
These kinds of prohibitions have been extended not only to the information space, but also to politics, culture, education, and art – to all spheres of public life in the Western countries. And, they are imposing this on the world; they are trying to impose this model, a model of totalitarian liberalism, including the notorious cancel culture of widespread bans.
However, the truth and reality is that the people in most of these countries do not want this life or this future, and really do not want the formal semblance of sovereignty, they want substantive, real sovereignty and are simply tired of kneeling, of humiliating themselves before those who consider themselves exceptional, and of serving their interests even to their own detriment.
Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. Well, what can I say? Let them try. We have already heard a lot about the West wanting to fight us ”to the last Ukrainian.“ This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but that seems to be where it is going. But everyone should know that, by and large, we have not started anything in earnest yet.
[...]
The so-called collective West led by the United States has been extremely aggressive towards Russia for decades. Our proposals to create a system of equal security in Europe have been rejected. Initiatives for cooperation on the issue of missile defence were rejected. Warnings about the unacceptability of NATO expansion, especially at the expense of the former republics of the Soviet Union, were ignored. Even the idea of Russia’s possible integration into this North Atlantic alliance at the stage of our, as it seemed then, cloudless relations with NATO, apparently, seemed absurd to its members.
Why? Just because they do not need a country like Russia, that is why. That is why they supported terrorism and separatism in Russia, and internal destructive forces and a ‘fifth column’ in our country. All of them are still receiving unconditional support from the collective West.
We are being told, we hear some people say that we started the war in Donbass, in Ukraine. No, the war was unleashed by the collective West, which organised and supported the unconstitutional armed coup in Ukraine in 2014, and then encouraged and justified genocide against the people of Donbass. The collective West is the direct instigator and the culprit of what is happening today.
If the West wanted to provoke a conflict in order to move on to a new stage in the fight against Russia and a new stage in containing our country, we can say that it has succeeded to a certain extent. A war was unleashed, and the sanctions were imposed. Under normal circumstances, it would probably be difficult to accomplish this.
But here is what I would you like to make clear. They should have realised that they would lose from the very beginning of our special military operation, because this operation also means the beginning of a radical breakdown of the US-style world order. This is the beginning of the transition from liberal-globalist American egocentrism to a truly multipolar world based not on self-serving rules made up by someone for their own needs, behind which there is nothing but striving for hegemony, not on hypocritical double standards, but on international law and the genuine sovereignty of nations and civilisations, on their will to live their historical destiny, with their own values and traditions, and to align cooperation on the basis of democracy, justice and equality.
Everyone should understand that this process cannot be stopped. The course of history is inexorable, and the collective West’s attempts to impose its new world order on the rest of the world are doomed.
At the same time, I want to say and emphasise that we have many supporters, including in the United States and Europe, and even more so on other continents and in other countries. And there will be more, no doubt about that.
To reiterate, even in the countries that are still satellites of the United States, there is a growing understanding that their ruling elites’ blind obedience to their overlord, as a rule, does not necessarily coincide with their national interests, and most often simply and even radically contradicts them. Eventually, everyone will have to face this growing sentiment in society.
Today, these ruling elites are raising the degree to which they manipulate the public consciousness right before our eyes. The ruling classes of the Western countries, which are supranational and globalist in nature, realised that their policies are increasingly detached from reality, common sense and the truth, and they have started resorting to openly despotic methods.
The West, which once declared such principles of democracy as freedom of speech, pluralism and respect for dissenting opinions, has now degenerated into the opposite: totalitarianism. This includes censorship, media bans, and the arbitrary treatment of journalists and public figures.
These kinds of prohibitions have been extended not only to the information space, but also to politics, culture, education, and art – to all spheres of public life in the Western countries. And, they are imposing this on the world; they are trying to impose this model, a model of totalitarian liberalism, including the notorious cancel culture of widespread bans.
However, the truth and reality is that the people in most of these countries do not want this life or this future, and really do not want the formal semblance of sovereignty, they want substantive, real sovereignty and are simply tired of kneeling, of humiliating themselves before those who consider themselves exceptional, and of serving their interests even to their own detriment.
Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. Well, what can I say? Let them try. We have already heard a lot about the West wanting to fight us ”to the last Ukrainian.“ This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but that seems to be where it is going. But everyone should know that, by and large, we have not started anything in earnest yet.
[...]
Lausanne, the lines above were posted on the sixteenth day of the seventh month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.
