Putin's speech today. Worth a read. He pretty much declared war on the West.

[Tomconroy]

Link to tweet

Medium thread.

From the NY Times:

Speaking to hundreds of Russian lawmakers and governors in a grand Kremlin hall, Mr. Putin said that the residents of the four regions — which are still partially controlled by Ukrainian forces — would become Russia’s citizens “forever.” He then held a signing ceremony with the Russian-installed heads of those four regions to start the official annexation process, before clasping hands with them and chanting “Russia! Russia!”

Even by Mr. Putin’s increasingly confrontational standards, it was an extraordinary speech, mixing riffs against Western attitudes on gender identity with an appeal to the world to see Russia as the leader of an uprising against American power.

“Not only do Western elites deny national sovereignty and international law,” he said in the 37-minute address. “Their hegemony has a pronounced character of totalitarianism, despotism and apartheid.

A few excerpts from Reuters:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/extracts-from-putin-s-speech-at-annexation-ceremony/47943676

[Joinfortmill]

1. Russia, if you can hear me, take down this clown.

[roody]

2. Please post a link to

the translated speech.

[Tomconroy]

3. I don't have a full translation yet.

[dalton99a]

4. "The Great Russian Empire needs lebensraum. I shall unleash my human waves"

of drunks and incompetent generals with big hats

[Chainfire]

5. Declaring "forever" is even more ambitious than the "Thousand Year Reich."

[Chainfire]

6. Perhaps Ukraine should annex Belarus.

[KS Toronado]

18. Perhaps Ukraine should annex Russia.

[Botany]

7. Come on Russia put an end to this shit show. 25% of Russians don't have indoor plumbing and Vlad ..

.... lives in a multitude of billion $ homes.




"He then held a signing ceremony with the Russian-installed heads of those four regions to start the official annexation process, before clasping hands with them and chanting Russia! Russia!”

[Zambero]

9. Finally, the origin of the MAGA salute revealed

[rubbersole]

15. I thought it was "smell my finger..."

[The Unmitigated Gall]

8. Every accusation a confession.

No respect for boundaries.

No respect for standards.

No respect for rights.

Raping, pillaging, torturing, murdering.

Pootler is “leading” nothing but his own sickening megalomania.

[PortTack]

13. Nailed it!

[lindysalsagal]

10. No thanks. I've got Vlad on "ignore."

[Tomconroy]

11. That's been the attitude in the West for 20 years until recently.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

12. The last days of Hitler.

[PortTack]

14. West denying international law and sovereignty? What kinda projection is this shit??!!

[rubbersole]

16. maga projection. I think it's patented...

[dalton99a]

17. +1. Standard RW playbook

[EndlessWire]

19. UN Security Council

will be talking about Ukraine at 3 pm ET.

I know a lot of you don't like the UN, but you can look at it like a DU discussion, but a little more strait laced and stuff between the lines. I am hoping they get kicked out of the UN. No, I don't know what that will mean. They never say much, anyway except to complain, bullshit, and whine about the Russian language. They are an obstruction to UN business, and they are not needed.