Alex Christoforou: Alright, Alexander, we just finished with Putin’s speech and the ceremony for the four new regions to enter the Russian Federation. Quite a speech! Your thoughts?

 

Alexander Mercouris: Well, I mean, it was extraordinarily, … Well, first of all, I should say Putin himself looked in a good mood. That was the first thing I would say, pretty much in control. And the mood overall came across to me as confident and pretty festive. And I want to say that because we’re going to discuss the situation on the ground in Ukraine later in this video.

 

But briefly, confident, strong speech, but to my mind, the final, conclusive end of the engagement between Russia and the West, at least for the foreseeable future.

 

He’s taking the four regions into Russia. So they’re now part of Russia as of this moment in time. As far as I’m concerned, they’re part of Russia. We’d already been told earlier today, Mike Eskov, Putin’s spokesman, that an attack on these four regions would be construed as an act of aggression against Russia. I don’t think any of us had any doubts about this. And Putin essentially said the same thing.

 

Actually, he went even further. He said that he would defend these regions with all available means. Now “all available means” actually does include nuclear weapons. I don’t think that’s a threat to Ukraine. I think that’s a warning to the West. So I think that’s the first thing to say.

 

The second thing that he said, and I’m not going to talk specifically about the Ukraine conflict, is:

 

“Yes, we’re still prepared to negotiate with Ukraine, but it will only be on the basis that Ukraine accepts the fact that these four regions are now part of Russia.”

 

Other than that, there really isn’t anything. If the Ukrainians start bringing up the topic of these regions, and of course, Crimea, then that’s no longer a topic for discussion. So that’s what he said about Ukraine.

 

But he said so much more, and it was so much more interesting. Well, first of all, he specifically identified the Anglo Saxons as the people who carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines. That’s the first political leader. That’s the first head of state of any country to make such a straightforward allegation. And he’s now come out and openly said it was the United States, essentially and Britain. I mean, the United States principally.

 

He also accused the Western powers of acting as colonizers, of trying to subjugate Russia in the 1990s, stripping it with its resources and treating Russia as a colony.

 

He makes it absolutely crystal clear that he regards the Western powers no longer as partners, but essentially as predatory enemies! I can’t for the life of me see after this how there is any going back! There is no possibility of any kind of reconciliation between Russia and the west, certainly while Putin remains president.

 

But given that Putin is undoubtedly articulating the opinions of most of the Russian leadership and the great majority of the Russian people, I think we can say as of now, as of this moment, that the West has lost Russia! It lost China back in the 40s, and that triggered a massive debate in the West. It’s now lost Russia. Perhaps that will also one day trigger a debate in the West. But the fact is, that any chance of any sort of reconciliation is once, and forever gone.

 

Alex Christoforou: Okay, well, let’s go back to what he said about Ukraine, and then we’ll talk about what he said about the collective West.

 

He said that the people made their choice in these regions. They made their choice. They want to be part of Russia. It’s over, it’s done with. And then he called on Kiev to negotiate for ceasefire, one last time. I’m paraphrasing kind of what he said, but he was basically, one last time, negotiate for ceasefire. But these regions, Crimea, they’re off the table.

 

That’s not going to happen if you go by the statements not only from Zelensky, but go by the statements of his puppet masters, the people that are pulling the strings. You can start with Joe Biden, if you want to say that Biden is pulling the strings of Zelensky. [chuckling] But anyway, he came out with a statement yesterday, and he said that:

 

“The US will never recognize these four Republics.”

 

So, I mean, when Putin says, “let’s negotiate”, in his speech, “these four regions are done. They’re part of Russia, but let’s negotiate with this new reality”. He knows that they’re not going to accept this offer. Correct?

 

Alexander Mercouris: Correct. Absolutely. Of course he knows that. I mean, he’s under no doubt about that. He’s not naive. Every other party, …

 

Alex Christoforou: Why make the offer?

Alexander Mercouris: Why make the offer? The reason he makes the offer is, I think, that he again wants to show both to the Russian people, but also, most importantly, to his various international allies. He spoke to Erdogan yesterday, for example. A long and apparently friendly call that he’s not ruling out peace. It’s not he who’s ruling out peace. It works to his advantage always to appear as the person who’s willing to engage Ukraine in negotiations.

 

If Ukraine rules out negotiations, then it helps him. It means that it’s Ukraine that is the intransigent party, and that’s the way in which he wants to paint them. And that’s what’s going to happen.

 

And by the way, world opinion agrees with him! World opinion knows perfectly well, and when I say “world opinion”, I mean, opinion of the world outside the West. They know perfectly well the diplomatic history. They know all about the Minsk Agreements, the first Minsk Agreement, and the second Minsk Agreement, and the agreements that were made in February 2014, prior to the Maidan event. All of which were broken. They know the whole history! They know about the Istanbul agreement that was almost agreed in March.

 

So Putin coming forward and saying:

 

“Look! It’s Ukraine! It is Western puppet masters!”

 

I think he used those very words. By the way, I think he actually called them “puppet masters”. They are the people who are absolutely implacable! They are the people who won’t sit down and talk. Well. It makes him appear reasonable, and it makes the other side appear unreasonable. It’s the tactic of a lawyer!

 

And it’s the tactic that another lawyer, who is also the president of the country at war used. And that was, of course, Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, when he also repeatedly said that he was willing to sit down and negotiate with the other side, knowing perfectly well that they would never do so.

 

Alex Christoforou: Okay. If anyone wants to understand why the collective west hates Putin so much, all they have to do is listen to the speech. I’ve never heard a leader speak like this about the collective West.

 

Once again, Putin went back in history. He talked about the United States using nuclear weapons, an atomic bomb on Japan, twice. He talked about Dresden and what they did there. He talked about occupying Germany. He talked about Korea. He talked about the colonization of so many countries. He mentioned India. He talked about the pillaging, the plundering, the blackmailing, the lying!

 

He specifically called out the Anglo Saxons. He said that through his speech.

 

How is the European Union, the United States, the collective West, going to receive this speech? I mean, it’s one thing for world leaders outside of the collective West to think these things, to perhaps whisper these things to their Foreign Ministers, to their Defense Ministers, to their colleagues, but it’s another thing to hear these things being said out loud, at such an event.

 

Alexander Mercouris: Absolutely!

 

Alex Christoforou: Now, of course, most people are never going to get the full speech. That’s why I say most people are never going to get the full speech of Putin for a reason in the collective West. They’re not going to, … I’m sure they’re going to pick pieces and parts of the speech and demonize Putin by singling out pieces and parts of the speech. But taken as a whole, when you listen to what he said, this was pretty heavy stuff that he was talking about.

 

[09:29]

 

Alexander Mercouris: It was coruscating stuff! Now, can I just say, there’s three audiences. First of all, there’s Russians who obviously are interested in this, and I’m sure it will get a lot of traction there.

 

You’re talking about the non-Western world. I think they’re going to read this speech. A lot of them are going to hear this with a certain degree of admiration. Because, as you absolutely rightly say, it’s what they all think. The Chinese think this. The Indians think this. The people in Africa think this. They’ve all experienced what the West has done. It’s a fact people don’t always realize.

 

But you only have to spend any amount of time with people from these countries to know that they are very familiar with their colonial histories, their colonial pasts. And as I said, here’s somebody, a world leader, coming out and saying, openly what all of them are frightened, or intimidated, from saying openly.

 

So there’s going to be a certain amount of admiration for this, even if they’re still too nervous to join him, and say it themselves! But that’s an important thing to say.

 

And I think in the non-Western world, this speech will be read and listened to and studied carefully.

 

What will the Western powers think? They will be furious! They will be absolutely livid! They will be so angry that it will make them even more dangerous than they have been up to now. Because, of course, what’s happened is that somebody has come along and pointed to the monster, and said:

 

“It’s actually a monster, it’s not a saint.”

 

Which is what it pretends to be. And when that happens, when the Western powers are confronted with that, well, that will make them especially angry!

 

And by the way, I thought amongst the most interesting things, which is comments about the British, I mean, specifically it wasn’t British, but calling out the history of colonization and imperialism, and all those things. I would make a point which many people who watch us outside Britain may not be aware of, that the subject of colonization, of imperialism, is barely discussed in Britain today. It’s a dirty secret, if you like, which we really don’t want to address. Very, very few people in Britain have discussed what happened in Britain’s colonies.

 

Very few people in Britain are prepared to accept some of the terrible things that the British did in those colonies. So the British elite, who of course know it, know all that, are going to be especially angry as a result of this speech. Mentioning Dresden as well. Who did Dresden? It was the British, a point to remember.

 

Alex Christoforou: He made fun, in a way. I mean, he was making fun at the weakness, at the submissiveness of the Western leaders. I mean, it was clear that he was saying that you guys are a bunch of puppets. You have no self respect, no sovereignty, your submission. That is what he was saying about Western leaders. So he knows all of this. He knows that they’re going to take this, and they’re going to absolutely become furious! I mean, we thought they wanted regime change before in Russia. Multiply that by 100 X! He knows all of this.

 

Alexander Mercouris: Yeah.

 

Alex Christoforou: What next?

 

Alexander Mercouris: Well, what indeed, what next? By the way, you’re absolutely right. I mean, the one thing weak leaders don’t like, are particularly angry when it’s pointed out, is that they are weak. They know themselves that they are weak. They know how weak they are, they know how submissive and servile they are. And of course, they take out the anger that that causes them, partly upon their adversaries, for example, Putin, who is obviously not weak. But to a great extent also, we mustn’t overlook this upon their own people, and that’s something we’re going to have to prepare for.

 

But what it means is, what this speech makes, as you’re going to say, they’re going to try to redouble their regime change efforts. And that’s going to be very, very difficult, because, of course, having pulled out most of their people from Russia, they don’t really have the agents any longer in place to carry out regime change in Russia, at least not in the way that they did.

 

But they’re going to make they’re going to redouble their efforts now, or so it seems to me, to place Russia under some kind of economic siege. That’s the only thing it seems to me, realistically, they can do.

 

We may get more acts of sabotage. We may get attempts to blow up pipelines in Siberia, perhaps, go from Siberia to China. Who knows? We may be seeing more of that. We may be seeing more harassment of Russians around the world.

 

But ultimately, overall, there will be now incredible pressure from the West on all the nonaligned global South countries to try and sever economic links with Russia. Because this utters, this speech said so many taboo things that they can’t accept that.

 

And what that inevitably means now is that there’s going to be a massive conflict, a renewed struggle around the world for political influence. Because China isn’t going to drop Russia. Russia is too important to China for China to drop Russia. And besides, they agree with what Putin has said, anyway.

 

And there was a very interesting editorial in Global Times yesterday which also basically pointed at the US, as being responsible for the Nord Stream explosions.

 

So what’s now going to happen is that you’re going to start to see the world divide increasingly into camps. You’re going to see a renewed Cold War, but with an intensity, and anger, and a hate, that we didn’t see during the first Cold War! And that’s, I think, something people perhaps need to understand.

 

[16:30]

 

Alex Christoforou: Okay, let me read you some more excerpts. You can comment. And then we’ll talk about what’s going on on the ground. Putin called the “rules based order proposed by the West”, quote, “nonsense”. He said Western elites have always been, and remain colonizers.

 

When talking about what happened with the Nord Stream pipelines, he said the Anglo Saxons, they switched to sabotage, actually destroying pan-European infrastructure.

 

He said that the United States is trying to take everything impudentively, and blackmail, lying, recklessly like a wolf.

 

He then said the West denies moral standards, religion, family. He says:

 

“Do Russians really want to have parent number one, two, three, instead of mom and dad?”

 

That’s going to infuriate them! That is going to infuriate the collective West.

 

He talked about the whole gender thing, in the collective West, he says:

 

“Supposedly there are some genders except for women and men. For us, this is unacceptable.”

 

That is going to infuriate them.

 

And finally, what I believe is actually perhaps one of the most important lines that he said, which sums up where we are heading in the world today. He said:

 

“Paper money, like the dollar, and the Euro, it cannot feed people!”

 

And then he talked about the money printing, and everything like that. I think that is actually, out of everything he said. I think that line right there is probably the most important line of his speech.

 

Alexander Mercouris: Yes, because it points to the basic economic truths of the last 30 years, or 50 years, if you’d like. And also to the underlying weakness of the Western system. Because it is ultimately now based on money creation, artificial money creation, central banks, finance ministries, simply creating money out of thin air. Money that is increasingly not backed by goods. And that’s the problem! That’s why we have a worldwide inflation problem. Why that worldwide inflation problem is going to get worse, as we’ve discussed in several programs. And he’s absolutely right. And of course, when he talks about that, he also signals to his greatest adversary, that he knows what their weakness is. And that’s going to make them even more angry.

 

And that’s a point to bear in mind, because they know that what he says about this is true. That will make them frightened, and frightened people become extremely angry. And anger makes them even more dangerous.

 

So, this is an extraordinary speech in many respects. And just, by the way, go back to all those points about the family and all those things that he was talking about. Obviously, that appeals massively to opinion around the world, outside the West. But it’s also clear, I think, that he was making a pitch to conservative opinion in Europe. I mean, he hasn’t completely given up on it.

 

When he talks about the taxes on European energy infrastructure, sabotage of energy infrastructure, all of these attempts to change people’s social behavior in this kind of way, he’s making a pitch to conservative opinion first, and foremost in Europe, but also, I suspect, ultimately, to some extent, in the United States too.

 

So it’s an extraordinary speech, but it’s also a very dangerous speech. Or rather, not a dangerous speech as such, but a speech that tells us that we are entering into very dangerous times. Because this is essentially a call to battle! It’s a call to battle against the West. It says Russia is doing it’s bit. It’s also inviting others, in effect, to join that battle too.

 

And they will! Because that battle is now joined. I mean, all the pretenses, all the point about partners, all these attempts to get on with people, all those meetings with Merkel where we knew that deep down, they both despised each other, but they went through the motions of appearing to get on with each other. All that’s now history.

 

It’s now straightforward, open competition, conflict between two power blocks. Putin has taken this further than the other Eurasian states have, but there’s no doubt at all, that most of the Eurasians quietly agree with him.

 

[21:35]

 

Alex Christoforou: Yeah, he actually said in his speech that they’re trying to contain Russia, but they’re going to go after next, China, Iran and other countries.

 

Alexander Mercouris: Absolutely.

 

Alex Christoforou: He specifically stated that. Today it’s Russia, tomorrow it’s other countries.

 

So what is going on then in Ukraine? From Putin speech and many of the macro statements that he made in his speech? Let’s get to the micro, I guess.

 

Alexander Mercouris: And talk about the micro situation.

 

Alex Christoforou: Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, no one’s talking about the fighting, in and around Bahmut in these areas, and all the focus, especially from the collective West media. Maybe rightly so, maybe wrongly so is Krasny Lyman.

 

Alexander Mercouris: I know. Absolutely!

 

Alex Christoforou: I actually read rumors, just real quick, that Zelensky has basically given an order to say, we are going to surround this city today, or nothing!

 

Alexander Mercouris: It’s all or nothing resources, exactly.

 

Alex Christoforou: Moving resources from Civirsky [sp] to do that. I mean, this is a massive push!

 

Alexander Mercouris: Yes.

 

Alex Christoforou: And I just want to say, from the Russian analysis, or say interwebs, telegram channels, there are a lot of people asking, where is Russia? Why are they not doing anything? What’s going on here? So, I mean, there are those questions there. Kind of like what was experienced during the Kharkov counter offensive, in a way. I’m not saying they’re exactly similar, but you see a lot of the same questioning of Russian tactics.

 

Alexander Mercouris: Yes. Can I just say, I think that Krasny Lyman has become an obsession for many people. It’s become an obsession for many Russian bloggers, and Russian reporters on the ground. And if you actually go to the media in the West today, Reuters, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the American media, it’s interesting now that they’re actually taking their accounts of what’s going on in the battle. Even the Institute for the Study of War is taking their account now about what’s happening around Krasny Lyman from these complaints about Russian in action, from these Russian reporters and bloggers.

 

Now Krasny Lyman in itself is a small place. It was about 15,000 people before the war. Apparently it’s almost completely deserted now. There’s a certain number of troops there. Apparently, they’re not regular army. They’re not regular Russian army. They’re from the forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic, backed by a Kuban Cossack irregular unit made up of volunteers from Russia.

 

The Russian military does have a presence in the area, but it’s the usual businesses. They provide artillery and that kind of thing.

 

So Zelensky, Ukraine, has been desperate to do two things. Firstly, they were desperate after the Kharkov counter offensive, or offensive, to exploit that. To make some big push into Donetsk and Lahansk region and into northern Donbass. And they had a short time window because in about ten days time the rains begin, this whole area turns into basically soft swampy ground. The kind of offensive Ukraine wants to conduct apparently going to be very difficult. So they had a very short time window anyway. Lyman stood in their way. It was clearly given an order from Moscow to stand. I mean, there was no retreat from Lyman! And that’s the most important thing to say about this battle.

 

In other places where the Russians or the allied forces, have been outnumbered, they generally decided to pull back. But Lyman was told to stand. And the reason it was told to stand, quite clearly, was because other forces were being built up to defend the rest of northern Donbass. And in fact, shortly before we started this program, I was getting very sketchy, and unconfirmed reports, that the Russian 58th Guards Army is now marching in this direction, presumably to confront the Ukrainian troops in this area, and possibly break the siege of Lyman. This is a small place.

 

The most interesting thing about it is not whether it’s capture would have been a big blow to the Russians. It’s not a big blow to the Russians. It’s the obsession, the fixation that the Ukrainians have shown in it. They suffered more and more losses trying to capture it. And instead of rethinking their strategy, they’ve doubled down. And now they’re deploying troops from Sievesk, and perhaps more important place which they were defending, they’ve actually taken troops away from the Sievesk defense lines and they’re redeploying them to try to capture Krasny Lyman, presumably before the 58th Guards Army, the Russian army, gets there.

 

And it seems to me that what it shows, again, is the extent to which Ukraine is being driven here by optics, more than anything else. They weren’t able, they don’t have the time now, it seems to me, to launch this grand offensive into northern Donbass, but they still want to take Lyman because they need to show that their offensive is still succeeding. That they’re still advancing even on this day, when all these regions are joining Russia.

 

So I think, this is my own assessment. I mean, I’m not a military person, as I said many times, but this is how it looks to me. And we shouldn’t perhaps be overly influenced by some of the very emotional reporting from the people on the ground, from the Russian side, who obviously have friends in Lyman defending it.

 

I mean, this town, far from being a strategic point, as some people are saying, it looks to me, frankly, something of a sideshow.

 

Ukraine has failed in Kherson, it’s failed in Zaporizhia. It’s failed near Uglada [sp], which is this other area in southern Donetsk. It’s losing in Bahmut [sp]. So it’s thrown everything it has up to and including the kitchen sink, to capture Lyman, even beyond the point where Lyman itself has perhaps lost whatever significance it had. And the result is that there’s been a battle there. We’ll see whether Lyman holds, we’ll see whether these Russian reinforcements get there. Perhaps they will. In which case, as I said, I think we’ll probably forget about this battle very quickly.

 

The big events today haven’t happened in Ukraine, they’ve happened in Moscow.

 

[28:51]

 

Alex Christoforou: Okay, so to wrap up the video, the collective West, they are reporting three things. And they’re leaving out one thing, which makes me very curious as to why they’re not reporting on it. I know why they’re not reporting on it, but still, I say that’s interesting. And I’ve gone through the pages of BBC in the Morning, and CNN, all of them, all the usual suspects:

 

“Liman is about to fall, and that’s going to be a big blow for Putin.”

 

That’s the first story.

 

Second story:

 

“Partial mobilization is a disaster. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Russians are fleeing Russia!”

 

Millions are fleeing! That’s the narrative. And once again:

 

“The Russian economy is in tatters!”

 

It seems [chuckling] like they’re never going to let this go, that the Russian economy is falling apart.

 

So these are the three stories that they’re focused in on. So talk a little bit about those three stories. You talked a little bit about Liman, okay. Why they need it, why they need the story to happen. And the one story end, just let me finish my question. And the one story they’re not talking about is Nord Stream! Which is very telling! Because if this was some other type of incident that has happened in the past, whether it was chemical weapons in Syria, or MH 17, or whatever, usually they’ve pointed out who the culprit is, and they’ve condemned them within the first 30 minutes, and the media is running with it. So talk about these narratives.

 

Alexander Mercouris: Yeah, absolutely. I think I said all I can say about Liman for the moment. But let’s talk about the other ones.

 

Let’s talk about partial mobilization. Firstly, there’s no doubt at all that at the beginning, as with every big mobilization process, every big logistical process, there are teething problems. And there were teething problems. People were called up, who shouldn’t have been called up. They basically mostly been sent back to their homes. Apparently, a few of them have said that they want to continue to serve. So that’s a rather strange, well, that’s their decision. They’re deeply patriotic people. Some people have left.

 

And by the way, this always happens in every country, which mobilizes. I think that’s a point to make. I mean, I am old enough to remember the 1960s, and early 1970s, meeting lots of young Americans all over Europe who were fleeing the draft because they didn’t want to serve in Vietnam. And there’s been many other cases. If you’ve been following the war in Ukraine, you will know that there are thousands of Ukrainians, not thousands, millions of, I think 8 million Ukrainians, have left Ukraine, many of the men, because they don’t want to serve in the Ukrainian military.

 

My impression is, yes, there were some people who didn’t want to serve, some people made for the exits. They’re not the kind of people, as a matter of fact, that the Russian military wanted. So I don’t think this has affected the pace of the mobilization at all. And my impression is that that process is ebbing anyway. And that the numbers of people involved who fled? Well, there might have been several hundred thousand, certainly not millions. I’ve seen a figure of 300,000 mentioned out of a population of 150,000,000. That’s not a significant number. Many of them will come back. Many of them are the sort of people, I suspect, who are hostile to the Russian government, anyway.

 

My own sense is that after a few teething problems, partial mobilization has been relatively successful. New formations are being formed, training systems are taking place. Most people, the vast majority of people who were called up have turned out willingly. You’ve seen queues of people coming along to accept the call up. And I don’t think this is going to be a problem. I think in a few weeks, a few days time, this whole story will have disappeared. About the collapse, of failure, of partial mobilization, and all the rest.

 

Now about the imminent collapse of the Russian economy. Well, what can I say? I was looking at the figures, not the currency figures today and the ruble has strengthened again. It even strengthened against the dollar. That doesn’t seem to me to be a sign of a collapsing economy. I think that this is mirror imaging.

 

The fact is, there’s a massive economic crisis in Europe. It’s getting worse by the hour. I’m not going to even start with Britain, where the Pound, as I’m talking about the Sterling, is again falling and things look really desperate. We’ve just had a disastrous inflation read out in Europe. Things are not good in the United States. So you’ve got to keep people on board with the sanctions. You’ve got to tell them, well, actually, we’re winning. So, of course, Russia’s economy is in fact on the brink of collapse.

 

It’s a story that is repeated every couple of weeks. It then fades away, and then it resumes. But I’ve been reading what Russian officials have themselves been saying. They seem to be pretty relaxed about the overall situation with their economy.

 

And last but not least, the most important thing of all, as you absolutely rightly said, nobody wants to talk about Nord Stream. It’s very interesting. It’s not the headline. It’s never been the headline story. There’s been extreme reluctance to discuss what has happened.

 

And I can’t help but think that behind the shock, and horror, the reason is that everybody knows who was really responsible, but they don’t want to say! So they have to try and find some way of putting together a convincing narrative that can blame it all on the Russians. And they’re finding it very difficult.

 

Alex Christoforou: They can’t. Exactly. I don’t think they can spin this one. So, they’ll just let it fizzle away. My hunch.

 

Alexander Mercouris: Yeah, I agree.

 

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4 Horses
1 day ago
YOUR VIRTUE SIGNALNG IS OLD. HIS NAME IS ZELENSKY
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Futures
1 day ago
zelensky just singed to join NATO
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aresres
1 day ago
@4 Horses Your capitalization signals a sparse education
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Angela O Meara
1 day ago
@4 Horses letter Z is banned by Ukraine…hence Elensky
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indigo jones
1 day ago
@Futures I saw this too (on “redacted”)! Looks like Putin threw down the gauntlet, Zelenski picked up the challenge- I just pray that NATO will not be so reckless!
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Tom MATOKOVIC
1 day ago
@Futures I guess this will have to go all the way. It is now a zero-sum game and there will be no settlement of any sort.
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Kate O’Neal
1 day ago
Old Cree Indian saying: “ONLY WHEN THE LAST TREE HAS DIED AND THE LAST RIVER HAS BEEN POISONED AND THE LAST FISH BEEN COUGHT WILL YOU REALIZE YOU CANNOT EAT MONEY.”
Just what Putin says using other words.
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IP
1 day ago
Guys do you have a link to the translated version of the speech
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Tom Middlefinger
1 day ago
Brtsh Emp1re was an emp1re, they have nothng to be ashmd for being more succcssful at wht every emp1re in h1story has done. Other than that, though, greatt speeech.
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Bogdan Meleszczenko
1 day ago
Putin’s mobilization was successful – 300,000 young Russians mobilized and fled Russia 😂😂😂
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Dick Johnson
1 day ago
Judea declared war on Russia(Christianity)
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Tree Climber
1 day ago
Where’s a LINK to Putin’s Speech
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hippoace
1 day ago
​ @Futures and he got rejected lmao
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Glowball Dom
1 day ago
Can anyone translate what they chanted on stage at the end of Putin’s speech
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Margarita Regler
1 day ago
@Tom Middlefinger Nothing to be ashamed of? Where do I start. Tell that to about a billion of people. And they and their descendants have long memories especially since the imperial illusions are still alive.
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Sheila Baltz
1 day ago
!earlgrey live-streamed it on his channel.
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Number Six
1 day ago
@Futures He applied.
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Number Six
1 day ago
@indigo jones Turkey must approve.
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Joey Bloggs
1 day ago
NATO’s collective ego is traumatised given their inability to defeat Russia economically or military.
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Viaceslav Mikhailovich
1 day ago
@Tom MATOKOVIC The settlement will happen, but not what The West hoped for.

Viaceslav Mikhailovich
1 day ago
@Glowball Dom They shouted “Russia, Russia”.
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indigo jones
1 day ago
@Number Six Whew! I had forgotten- thanks!
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Number Six
20 hours ago
@indigo jones You are welcome.
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Glowball Dom
19 hours ago
@Viaceslav Mikhailovich Many Thanks God Bless Russia

Betty Baumann
1 day ago
Oh my God a President that actually speak and make sense.
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DronesiViews LLC – Phoenix, Arizona Drone Services
6 hours ago
I know. Amazing isn’t it?
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John Damon Walls
4 hours ago
🤡🤡. Couple of’em right here.

Adelaide Safoa
1 day ago
I’m not Russian but watching President Putin speak made me proud .
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beautiful Thomas
beautiful Thomas
1 day ago
Me too 🗣🗣🗣🗣
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Rodney Kiehne
1 day ago
It is because in all his speeches and interviews he treats the listeners with respect. He acknowledges your feelings, that he is speaking to an adult who understand concepts. He talks too you, not at you, which is the habit of most other politicians, especially here in Australia. That has always been my sense of this man.
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Adelaide Safoa
23 hours ago
@Rodney Kiehne wow that’s a very deep take and you are absolutely right, his speeches always connects with the listener .
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ZEUS C
18 hours ago
lol

Resist Ireland
1 day ago
I’m a 55 yr old Irishman, Ex Soldier and in my opinion Putin’s speech was the best, most detailed and most historic speech I have heard from any world leader in my lifetime. Go Putin, Go Russia and Godspeed 🙏 to all Russian Force’s currently engaged in DE-NAZIFICATION of Ukraine 💕🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💕🇮🇪
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Александр Л
Александр Л
1 day ago
Happy to know there are still many clear-minded people in the West. Best wishes from Moscow, Sir 🇮🇪🤝🇷🇺
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Basile Dex
1 day ago
Thank you Celtic friend, greetings from country of Broceliande 😊
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M Wick
1 day ago
I am just turned 65 and as a German who was an artillery officer in my youth, I wholeheartedly agree with your comment. Bless the Irish, the Russians and a little my Germans.
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Noel Burke
1 day ago
I as an Irish citizen agree Putin is the best and most intelligent leader on the planet the only leader to save the world from the WEF and the tyrannical west
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Resist Ireland
1 day ago
@Александр Л Thank you very much for your kind comments Sir 💕 There are millions of us in the west who feel like I do towards Russia and her Brave hard working People and we have had enough of our Imperialistic Evil Leaders ways! So hopefully soon my Friend from Moscow, we will all unite to make the changes necessary to move forward in a manner that benefits all of Humanity, not just the few at the top! Thank you again Sir and may God Bless and Protect You and Your Loved Ones 💕🙏🙏💕🇷🇺🇮🇪🇷🇺
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marian lynch
1 day ago
I’m with you 100% on that too. Thankgoodness there’s plenty of us Irish supporting Russia . 🇷🇺 Putin had no option but do what he has done regarding the special military operation. I wish him , all his brave leaders and the Russian people very good luck. 👍
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Resist Ireland
1 day ago
@Basile Dex Thank you Basil Dex for your kind words and may God bless and protect You and Your loved ones 💕🙏💕🙏
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Bob Padok
1 day ago
Russia is Hope of the world!!
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Margarita Dubrovina
1 day ago
❤️
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Margarita Dubrovina
1 day ago
@M Wick ❤️
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Jacob Hoffman
1 day ago
Brother, regards from Serbia to the brave people of Ireland💯
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alyona
1 day ago
Thank you for your kind words! ❤️ I have been dreaming of visiting Ireland for a long time and I will definitely do it. I’m from Moscow 🇷🇺❤️🇮🇪
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Renata Rabutin
1 day ago
@Bob Padok Indeed! God bless.
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M. Salleh
1 day ago
Can anyone please post the link of Putin’s speech with English subtitles instead of translation?
Thanks
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jeff Brewer
1 day ago
Do you think northern Irland will finally be unified with the rest of Ireland anytime soon?
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darren w
1 day ago
@jeff Brewer Hopefully not. We dont want it. Get your nose out of our politics.
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Glowball Dom
1 day ago
@Bob Padok A light to the world So said Edgar Cayce The Sleeping Prophet
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Margarita Regler
1 day ago
@M Wick Uns Deutsche am meisten, because we need the most blessings. Only a miracle can save us. Deutschland has been systematically brought to this place and is now ready to be used. Soon, the perceived problem of Germany won’t exist anymore. I am in my seventies, a historian and have no illusions about our so-called friends. That was the ruse they used to ultimately destroy us for good.
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Margarita Regler
1 day ago
@Александр Л Thank God for Russia, from a German living in the Disunited States of America.
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Aleksandra O’
1 day ago
Also Irish and agree 👍💯
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Patriotic Wonderer
1 day ago
And most accurate and true
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Isaac C.
1 day ago
Anglo-saxon here. I’m Orthodox Christian and I think the speech is brilliant. Long live holy Russia.
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Lilacer
1 day ago
@Александр Л stay strong Russia the world is with you. Support your military and President. This us a revolution and only Russia is capable of doing it
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Lilacer
1 day ago
@M Wick get out on the streets of Germany and protest.
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WillieMays24
1 day ago
Amazing speech
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Peter McNally
23 hours ago
Also as an Irishman I believe that Vladimir Putin is the world’s best leader today. A great leader of a great country.
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Jan Safree
21 hours ago
@Bob Padok Jesus is the Hope of the world, and Putin appears to be on the right side of things.
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Frozen Cuttlefish
21 hours ago
@M. Salleh earl grey yt

Frozen Cuttlefish
21 hours ago
@Jan Safree read edgar cayce prophecy on russia
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D Nickaroo
21 hours ago
Many prisoners in Australia were political prisoners, the majority of whom were Irish. For this reason Australians voted twice against conscription for WWI — they refused to fight for Britain. This was because of the Irish Genocide (1845 — 1849) — They called it a “Potato Famine”.
It is amazing for how long the English kept it a secret.
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Teresa Bee Kind
16 hours ago (edited)
My Grandmother on my mother’s side was from Ireland and I have here fighting spirit (I detest coercion). We are very worried about the coming winter. I thought all of Putin’s speeches and announcements were excellent through this debacle. Blessings and GodSpeed Ireland 🇮🇪✌️🇺🇸❣️🙏
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Nalin Monerawela
16 hours ago
Good honest man
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Resist Ireland
14 hours ago (edited)
@Teresa Bee Kind Thanks very much Teresa for your kind words and Blessings 💕 Where abouts are u situated? It’s the same here, 3 kids and a bag full of worries for winter but we’re survivors and somehow we’ll make it through! Im hearing terrible stories from Europe but Germany in particular! They reckon many thousands will freeze and starve to death over there this winter but don’t u know the politicians and their elitist buddies will be just fine! May God Bless 🙏 and Protect You and Your Loved Ones going Forward Teresa 💕 Much love to You and Your family from Ireland 💕💕💕 And BTW, hold onto that fighting spirit as I do think we are all gunna need it…..💕🇺🇸💕🇮🇪💕
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Motor Knight
11 hours ago
Irish here too and I 100% concur .
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Resist Ireland
10 hours ago
@Motor Knight Thanks for that Friend, may God 🙏 Bless and Protect You and Your Loved Ones 🙏💕🙏💕
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John Kozr
5 hours ago
​ @Александр Л The Western leadership is at a historical low point.
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Keith Alcock
2 hours ago
@M. Salleh Consortium News from Sunday Oct. 2 has the full text as does the Kremlin website. Both are in English. Cheers from Canada. Classic speech by the way
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HAL 9001
2 hours ago
Happy to give you your 1,000th. ‘Like’, there, very well said🎯👍!
The Russian government was 100% clear about their humanitarian motivations and exact priorities in this eight-year conflict, when they stepped directly into it, back in February. They have not wavered in their commitment to them since, either, a point that President Putin’s scathingly direct, honest and historically wide-ranging speech placed an emphatically HUGE exclamation mark on.
If the ordinary men, women and children of places like Donetsk and Lugansk, who have already endured so much heartache and hardship in the last eight years, are to have any chance at all of a better, fairer and more peaceful future, then it surely will only happen within the far more principled, free and secure confines of their new ‘home’, the Russian Federation.
Have a good day out there!
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Boris Tabare Ag
2 hours ago
For some reason, Irish people are, historically, the bravest and most honorable europeans: Clare Daly and Mike Wallace are just the continuators of a large tradition of fighters for the truth and justice. In Mexico, my country, we have very special links with Ireland, for a long time…This is why:
St. Patricks Batallion were about a hundred irish inmigrants drafted by USA army in the 1846-48 War against Mexico ; but, as soon as they realized that it was an american invasion to loot half mexican territory (which would finally succeed), they turned against american invaders, dying them all defending mexican soil. Here in Mexico City we have a museum devoted to St. Patrick´s Batallion Heroes, bright part of our history.
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Kat Haira
1 hour ago
@D Nickaroo I am Aussie also. Convict….Irish and Aboriginal. Convicts were not colonisers , they were slaves for the British elite who still dominate Australian society and politics…,we all know their names but stay silent when idiots like K Rudd apologise on behalf of the Australian people for the crimes committed by our overseers like we were all equally responsible and it was not a decision made by the privileged few and blamed on the many. My ancestors came here in chains for a lifetime of hard labor and not much hope of anything else for their free born children and were convicted of bullshit crimes also. Love Putin…love Australia….hate liberals. I am a brown nationalist….love it when they call me a white supremacist.
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Georgia Swann
1 day ago
No lies detected in Putin’s speech. May God bless Russia and its people.
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Glowball Dom
1 day ago
one reply censored below

Glowball Dom
1 day ago
Putin was looking healthy sane in charge and very well received. The referenda has spoken. Unite Mother Russia
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Dan Croitoru
1 day ago
I think you did not set your lie detector on Putin mode.

John Bea
1 day ago
Those who are interested, Michael Rossi Poli Sci has the full clip of Putin’s speech with great translation.
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ibdalia
1 day ago
@John Bea Grateful, TY.
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ibdalia
1 day ago
@Dan Croitoru Thanks for the tip 🙂
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Robert Bonobo
1 day ago
which god might that be?

ibdalia
1 day ago
@Robert Bonobo Not your god

ZEUS C
18 hours ago
lol

Lib Olefub
12 hours ago
@Glowball Dom who’s the real Nazi here?

Glowball Dom
11 hours ago
@Lib Olefub Azov
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Jack Gordon
1 day ago
I’m in the US and President Putin’s speech, all that he says about the insane woke stuff, appeals to me. He’s right and I know he’s right; I’ve known it all along and am very happy to finally hear a major leader say, “Enough of this deviant bushwa! Away with it!”
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dorothy allen
1 day ago
I too am American and agree!
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CJSinghUK
1 day ago
so jm i
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mrh
1 day ago
Me too
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R B
19 hours ago
Me too from UK
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LeadLeftLeon
16 hours ago
Can we trade biden for Putin as president this Christmas
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User1990
6 hours ago
Parent #1
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Helga Bruin
4 hours ago
Me too from Canada
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Katharine Foley
1 day ago
Putins speech was exceptional!!! God is with Russia because Russia is with God! Congratulations Novorossiya!❤❤❤❤
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M Na
M Na
1 day ago
God help Russia win, Amin…
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Bogdan Meleszczenko
1 day ago
In Ukraine, the new untrained Russian “cannon fodder” are already surrendering 😂😂😂😂

Bogdan Meleszczenko
1 day ago
Who runs back faster in panic?:
a) Afghan army
b) Russian army
Vote below! 😂😂😂

Diana Blackman
1 day ago
AMEN
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JP Phua
1 day ago
@Bogdan Meleszczenko
America.
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Angiebaby99
1 day ago
Katherine Foley
I’m inclined to agree with you on that one.
God is definitely on the side of good, not evil.
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nbeizaie
1 day ago
Do you have a link to his speech (in English)? Thanks.
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John Bea
1 day ago
C. America
Remember Afghanistan?
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Zuzana Zelinova
1 day ago
@nbeizaie I have seen it on YouTube channel iEarlGrey

ZEUS C
18 hours ago
lol

Anders Andersson
11 hours ago
The officer of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD, pointed his gun at the temple of the young soldier Said Asan Dzjamilov.
In the spring of 1942, fierce battles raged between Soviet soldiers and Hitler’s troops west of Moscow. A few months before, the Soviet troops had received reinforcements with rested and well-equipped soldiers from Siberia. They launched a fierce counteroffensive against the exhausted and frozen Germans. Here Dzhamilov fought for the Soviet Union.
In a skirmish, several of the fellow soldiers and an officer were killed. It wasn’t until a few hours later that Dzhamilov managed to get back to the camp where the Soviet troops were stationed. False accusations were quickly made against him.
– Confess that the Germans captured you and enlisted you as a spy! Otherwise you’ll be shot, the NKVD officer snarled.
What happened to Dzhamilov helps to explain what Russia and President Vladimir Putin would do in Ukraine 80 years later.
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Denise Miller
1 day ago
I’m tired of being blamed for our insane government in the States. We want none of this.
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Soberano Brasil
1 day ago
You can say that a Million of time. Completely insane.
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Logic105
1 day ago
Unfortunately, most Americans want it or don’t care enough to do anything about it.
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Jan Safree
1 day ago (edited)
Many of us in the UK agree with you!
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A P
1 day ago (edited)
seems like Maimi doesn`t hear you anf thinks othewise
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Logic105
1 day ago
@Jan Safree many, but not enough.
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magisterhpp
1 day ago
You also do not want to compensate the victims of these psychopaths.
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richard carlyon
1 day ago
Same here in London, 👍🇬🇧
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Heather Dale
1 day ago
I understand how you feel , the same here as the uk is just as insane , sending all Americans love and light
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Anja Zapico
1 day ago
Hey, I feel you 😉 Greetings from Germany!
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daniel_960_
1 day ago
@Logic105 unfortunately it’s easy to manipulate the majority of people. There are so many ways they do it. Even through stuff like food.
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Danijel B.
1 day ago
At least you got red states in the US who are fighting the insanity, people like me in Germany have no hope whatsoever.
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Prof E
1 day ago
Are you sure, @Denise Miller? I’m an American too, and I hear some pretty crazy shit coming out of the mouths of my fellow citizens. Many STILL think the US is a Beacon of Hope, and that all the world’s people want to be just like us.
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Myles Hagar
1 day ago
Same in Canada. This is unbelievable.
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Ron Whitehouse
1 day ago
I totally agree. We don’t want their wars.
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BhutanBluePoppy
1 day ago
Complacently not noticing the lies their (our) world is built on.
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Logic105
1 day ago
@daniel_960_ no doubt. That’s why history is set up to repeat itself.
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Station Plaza
1 day ago
Same goes here in the UK.
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me213
1 day ago
@Jan Safree yes very true
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BhutanBluePoppy
1 day ago
Right back at you <3
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BhutanBluePoppy
1 day ago
Where there’s life there’s hope.
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M E
1 day ago
Fed Up? But not enough to get out in the streets to protest. Just tired of the rest of the world pointing out what a curse to peace the US is.
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Jacob Jorgenson
1 day ago
Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan
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Davy Ro
1 day ago
@Danijel B. Why? If yous get out on the streets in big enough numbers there’s nothing they can do to stop yous
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Courage Grace & A Kick in the Ass
1 day ago
@Prof E I’m with you on that! Many of us haven’t felt like our government represents anyone but there entitled selves.
I personally have ♥️ for people all over the world. I don’t and haven’t for 90% of my life believed what we’ve been told.
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chico
1 day ago
You get the leaders you deserve.
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Tashkt94
1 day ago (edited)
Who are “we”? Americans voted for this government! Free and clean election…
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Ronnie
1 day ago
No, we don’t but we’re going to be punished for our complacency.
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SilverBlackBird1989
1 day ago
Then vote them out.
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CHZW30
1 day ago
Could be worse, you could be in Russia!
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Ardour
1 day ago (edited)
As a russian I never blamed americans. You have to be more precise when you go into such complicated matters. Also I enjoyed american culture for too long and simply unable to hate US as a nation. Actually its pretty silly to hate any nation. Because nation itself is never a root of the problem. At the end of the WW2 when it came to the moment to decide what will happen to Germany, Stalin said: “n-a-z-i-s-m will be gone, but german people will stay”.
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Kate O’Neal
1 day ago
​ @M E I presume you’re being ironic. if so I agree.
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4411825
1 day ago
What are you doing to change it?
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4411825
1 day ago
@Prof E Facts!!!
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Loraine Jones
1 day ago
@Danijel B. afd has been sounding pretty sane lately, and I’m a lefty. I watch their videos with their Bulgarian brothers. Smart intelligent people.
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Kate O’Neal
1 day ago
​ @Ardour You Russians are far better educated than we in the US who have no idea of historical events and, therefore, nuance.
54% of the US public can only read at a sixth-grade level now. In other words as a body, we’re barely functionally literate.
Imagine trying to talk with such people in a rational fashion.
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Alec Foster
1 day ago
@Ardour Thank you for your comment. As an American, I take comfort in it, as I love Russia; it’s history, culture, and people, and know many here who feel the same. Even during the cold war we wanted friendship. We all must remember the importance of people to people dialog even as we correct/vote-out our psychopathic politicians.
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Denise Miller
1 day ago
@M E it’s not just us.
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Denise Miller
1 day ago
@Ardour glad to see a sensible heartfelt comment in here.
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G.christel Becker
1 day ago
@Danijel B. can you not leave Germany?
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Ardour
1 day ago (edited)
@Alec Foster I belive Its not even about psychopatic politicians really. I mean, they might exist but when you dig a bit deeper the problem is allways in economy. We humans as social beings are being shaped by our surroundings wich comes out of a structure of economy. If I would oversimplify it to make an example: if you have a school in your town, you have educated folks, if you dont have a school in your town you have pretty wild humans wich are very easy to manipulate. As it was said by someone: uneducated people basically unable to be free in any way. And since we live in capitalist era we cant have free education for everyone (because capitalism just cant allow anything to be free) and we also cant have all people to have money for education, because capitalism is not about everyone have money obviously 🙂 So here were come to unsolvable controversy where political agenda is all about freedom (or “freedom”) but economic reality has nothing to do with actual freedom. And now we witnessing how that system is cracking. How dramatic it will be? Well, I dont know.
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M E
1 day ago
@Kate O’Neal Yes, thanks.

M E
1 day ago
@Kate O’Neal 80% can name all the Kardashians, so we do know something. (Sarcasm)
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Haleema Hussain
1 day ago
GOOD, ABOUT TIME TOO.
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Freedom
1 day ago
Hi we should not blame our fellow citizens completely the mainstream media are mostly to blame for most of our woes.
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Kathleen Pimentel
1 day ago
Same here.

Eliana McKee
1 day ago
🎉🎉🎉 Denise, I agree with you!
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Michele Lalli
1 day ago
I’m from South Africa and have friends in CA & I understand exactly what you mean, it’s not the general American people because most are good decent people but the gvts and military industrial complex make you all look like terrorists around the world when it’s not really the case… sad but true🤔
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Margarita Regler
1 day ago
Now you are getting a little bitty taste of what Germans have had to endure. The ordinary person is always powerless. Unfortunately, there are still plenty of people here in US who jump on the war bandwagon, the “my country right or wrong” crowd, and the “‘Murica is still the greatest country on earth” shouters. Today, after the Brandon regime basically used my native land to become the headquarters for the war against Russia, my neighbors could not understand my disgust nor my fears. They still think the US has been Germany’s friend when it is nothing but an immoral occupier. My beloved homeland is doomed, but I hope that Russia will drive the occupiers out.
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Silvério Rebelo
1 day ago (edited)
that’s what you say – but Americans are always bragging about being the best country in the world and making other similar arrogant statements, while never minding about the ransaking of other nations by the USA’s power
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Elder Millennial
1 day ago
It’s not our quarrel!
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Elder Millennial
1 day ago
@Logic105
Most where I live in Wyoming say that it’s not our quarrel!
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Lawrence Garcia
1 day ago
Get rid of Evil in USA
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Norbert George
1 day ago (edited)
@Michele Lalli a slight correction! When your government, that is of the US since WWII, or a NATO member state, since its inception, have been waging – illegal – wars around the world, bombing countries, their cities, villages and peoples to smithereens, then you can hardly say “most people in the US or NATO member states, are good people”, when you consider how democracy works, and also how long these endless illegal wars have been going on:
1945–1948: South Korea
1945–1949: China
1947–1949: Greece
1948: Costa Rica
1949–1953: Albania
1949: Syria
1950–1953: Burma and China
1952: Egypt
1952: Guatemala
1952–1953: Iran
1954: Guatemala
1956–1957: Syria
1957–1959: Indonesia
1959–1963: South Vietnam
1959–1962: Cuba
1960–1965: Congo-Leopoldville
1960: Laos
1961: Dominican Republic
1961–1964: Brazil
1963: Iraq
1965–1967: Indonesia
1970: Cambodia
1970–1973: Chile
1971: Bolivia
1974–1991: Ethiopia
1975–1991: Angola
1975–1999: East Timor
1976: Argentina
1979–1992: Afghanistan
1980–1989: Poland
1981–1982: Chad
1981–1990: Nicaragua
1983: Grenada
1989–1994: Panama
1989: Paraguay
1991: Iraq
1991: Haiti
1992–1996: Iraq
1994–1995: Haiti
1996–1997: Zaire
2000: FR Yugoslavia
2001–2021: Afghanistan
2003–2021: Iraq
2005: Kyrgyzstan
2006–2007: Palestinian Territories
2005–2009: Syria
2011: Libya
2012–2017: Syria
2014-2022: Ukraine
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Elder Millennial
1 day ago
@Lawrence Garcia
We’re working on it.
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Isabelle C.
1 day ago
Same in EU
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Michele Lalli
1 day ago
@Margarita Regler Very true, I’m from South Africa but also endured it when I was young as we had a bad rep once so I get it. The scary thing if I’m not mistaken is, remember how many bases they have there, how many nuclear war heads are stored under German ground if I’m not mistaken… Germany is a warehouse, let’s be honest! I agree, the EU Union along with NATO & company are destroying Europe and it’s so sad because I am Italian / Portuguese and I absolutely love Europe but to see the insanity from these “leaders” is non-sensible, completely crazy!
They are psychopaths!
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Elder Millennial
1 day ago
@Norbert George
I’m from Wyoming. Growing up, I simply couldn’t make sense of the difference between a “conservative” and a “neoconservative”, it puzzled me. But I was raised a conservative Catholic and Republicans generally said more than not the things I wanted to hear, so for several years after turning 18, I voted Republican.
Then, I learned about Monsanto, and the role Donald Rumsfeld played in helping them cheat the health regulation system to get their damnable aspartame legalized so they could trick millions of Americans into poisoning ourselves. THAT was when I began to grasp what a Neocon REALLY is! It made me so mad that I became a libertarian for some time, but I’ve gradually realized the weaknesses with that movement, especially after my conversion to Orthodoxy.
But now, the Cheney’s attempts at revenge against Donald Trump have essentially confirmed the film “Vice” was an accurate assessment of VP Dick and his daughter.
This has been a bitter pill to swallow. We thought Dick was an old fashioned “Hangin’ Judge” type of man of no-nonsense justice, but damn it, we thought he was a FAIR Judge, one who had impartiality, who understood us, his local countrymen. We underestimated how festering like a bloated corpse in the Washington swamp for 30 years had changed him, had made him a TRUE “neoconservative”, more so than anything else he gained in values from life out here on the prairie.
Damn him, anyway, damn them all.
We won’t be fooled again.
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Angiebaby99
1 day ago
@Kate O’Neal It’s the same in the UK.
The country’s gone backwards 50 years, but with a a massive rise in all crime rates.
It’s worrying.
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Rayman Perera
1 day ago
Well said Denise
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Kathy Free
1 day ago
@M E we in US need to organize a million person protest. But we’d end up like Jan 6th protest and they’d jail us for life.
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Kathy Free
1 day ago
@Davy Ro they would get the fbi to jail everyone. I agree. I’d be one to protest if there was to ever be a protest

Kathy Free
1 day ago
@Ardour thank you. We love Russians. Russians have values our country has lost.
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Kathy Free
1 day ago
@Kate O’Neal our youth are hopeless. Our country is hopeless. They no nothing about history, geography and world events. They don’t even know there’s a war.
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T M
1 day ago
Thank you! Well said. So sick of being identified as an American automatically a supporter of American hegemony.
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Norbert George
1 day ago
@Elder Millennial I don’t envy you, and wouldn’t want to stand in your shoes, because I would have gone mad by now with all the political twists and turns
But… I wish you all the best, wisdom and happiness, as that is all I have to give
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Burt
1 day ago
Talk is cheap. Get out en masse on to the streets every day, and practice anarchy.
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abrogard
1 day ago
Best you do something. Did you even bug your elected representative and hold him responsible?

Jack Barry
1 day ago
@M E the problem with Amis is that they’ve never experienced their country’s horrendous foreign policies.
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rattylol
1 day ago
Tell them not us, we know.
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Jill Klausen
1 day ago
Then you have to convince everyone you know to stop voting for the duopoly and start voting for 3rd party candidates, period. It’s the only way to overthrow the MIC.
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E J
1 day ago
@Logic105 they will suffer enormous consequences for that .

Jackie P
1 day ago
Most Americans are complacent or simply too busy with their lives to give attention to Russia/Ukraine. I was one of those and never really interested in history, until an “enlightenment” at 72. It’s become a loss of innocence to see my country not the good guys; the reality is appalling. Maybe I’m too idealistic and naive.
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mark sanders
1 day ago
@Logic105 and many are very ignorant.

Logic105
1 day ago
@mark sanders I hope it’s ignorance but it seems like alot of people actively made their decision to support this atrocity.

faisal
1 day ago
I think Americans have their work cut out for themselves. Either get that monstrous government of yours in control and under the brutal thumb of citizen of America or continue to suffer image problem around the world. Never forget, till the late 90s, Americans through out the world were very highly regarded and warmly welcomed even in Russia and China, now, large parts of Asia and Africa are no go areas for Americans which is such a shame and entirely the fault of American foreign policies.
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Bellathebear
23 hours ago
@Heather Dale Sending love & light to you Heather. 🙏💕💪✌️🎶🎵🎶

Michael Hopkins
22 hours ago
You all are to blame with your submissive and weak behavior. Until people say no to the evil within, nothing will change for the better

M E
18 hours ago
@Jack Barry True, most of us never experienced economic sanctions, war on our turf, food shortages, or real hardship. We are in for a rude awakening over the next few years.
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Eliana McKee
12 hours ago
@Michele Lalli true, my friend. The sad thing is we have no power to decide where our tax money will go. 60% goes to the MIC.
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Michele Lalli
12 hours ago
@Eliana McKee I almost wish I was wrong because what I see going on is horrific! Now that they’ve just upgraded the irs, imagine how much more they are going to take! What the general public needs to ask is why are they being impoverished, where is all this money really going? Follow the money!

Ana B
7 hours ago (edited)
I’m from Russia and has been in strong opposition till last times, when it became too obvious that west values have nothing to do with west. After Feb 24 first that struck everybody here personally is that you are ready to kill next person expecting you to apologize (I work in Global company). I know how you feel and my receipt to calm down is to know that people judge people by their own experience with them in the end. I can assure you that in my country most people understand that people are not their government. There was never and there is not now any sign of hatred to Western people. Really sorry and hope there is some way to help avoid troubles for people in West. Pipelines were a shame(
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Michele Lalli
7 hours ago
@Ana B I’ll be honest, 1 of the first countries I’m coming to visit is Russia because I want to see it with my own eyes, as I’ve seen China, Europe, Africa and America I want to see what all the bad publicity is all about and coming from a country that has experienced that in the past that I remember well I know better. It’s not the people, it’s that small few with megaphones that need to be sorted out!
Don’t worry, you all are reaping from their mistakes and I applaud that, well done👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😉
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Michele Lalli
7 hours ago
@Ana B Pipelines in my opinion shows desperation and weakness because Putin had outsmarted them at every turn and I’m sure he was waiting for this to happen as it was a clear and obvious target but if I know Putin, he’s prepared… they hate him because he is the most dignified of them all and he sets an example for how dignitaries and actual leaders are supposed to behave, I mean look at the choices the West have… I feel truly sorry for the people of Europe!
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User1990
6 hours ago
@Jack Barry
I agree. If we in America experienced demolition and occupation by a foreign power, like germany and japan did, most Americans would get serious about foreign policy
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DronesiViews LLC – Phoenix, Arizona Drone Services
6 hours ago
Agreed! From a fellow American, Denise.
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Iris Enamorado
5 hours ago
Exactly 💯!
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none one
1 day ago
when i listen to putin’s speech, i felt that he is not only talking about russia, what he so directly pointed out, is in fact the whole none western world which is the overwhelming majority of humanity’s experience in last decades.
that’s what make his speech resonated so strongly and deeply, and so powerful.
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Robbie
16 hours ago
It also speaks to the people who are absolutely fed up with what is controlling the politicians and other decision makers in the US.
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Mickey-2940
1 day ago (edited)
It’s tuff to face the reality that America has lost its position as the beacon of integrity and its depth of character. For those who love this country, we look back with great longing at “the greatest generation” who fought in WWII and realize just how pathetic in comparison we have become. Listening to Putin’s speech, the truth of his words pierce my heart as the hard realization is that we must hand off the baton to Russia who I pray God give all wisdom and utility to bring down this horrific cabal.
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Tom Middlefinger
1 day ago
Honstly most of the “greattst generat1on” I knew as a k1d didn’t imprss me that much. I think W W 1 generat1on was bettter.
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Jared Young
1 day ago
Same here from an American. We have truly fallen from grace.
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IF IF
1 day ago
Thank you for your kind words!❤️
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Глеб Глебыч
1 day ago
Mickey-2940 Thank you !!!!!

TNAROHfan
1 day ago
It never was a beacon of integrity. It was always a mixed bag (you know, human. With all of it’s warts and frailties.) American hubris is the only thing that is truly exceptional about magic soil country known as the USA.
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Ukrainted States of Amerael
1 day ago
Don’t you ever question what you were taught about WWII in school? Why do you assume we were any better then?
Do some research and see how far back this goes.
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Sherbet Dab
21 hours ago
@TNAROHfan Whenever I visited America I always came away with a feeling of hope and positivity. Now I’m hoping it wasn’t just an illusion.
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Jane Ferreira
20 hours ago
You described my own reaction to his speech.

D Nickaroo
20 hours ago
Australia has too many who mindlessly follow the “narratives” given by our Media.
However, former Australian PM, Malcolm Fraser, said in 2015: “Australia needs the US for defence, but Australia only needs defence because of the US”. He saw belief in “the one indispensable nation” as the major error.
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Simon Denisov
4 hours ago (edited)
As a Russian born in 90s I grew up influenced by American movies and culture as it was starting to pour into our country after USSR collapse, I’ve thought one day I’m gonna move there, but what’s been happening in the west in recent years completely killed all the romance I had for pre 90s early 2000s United States, its a big shame seeing country you used to like being destroyed like this by some rich perverted minds. Hopefully USA will find its identity again.
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Neil LEwi
1 day ago
As an American I feel strange and uncomfortable with the the knowledge that we are one of those ‘baddies’ on the world stage. In my youth I was critical of our human rights abuses in Latin America. But, following the end of the Cold War (the first one) when we came out victorious I maybe we were on the side of progress and we were justified to some extent in those actions. I no longer see it that way. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, I see things differently now. We must rid the government of these neocons/ liberals who are directing these crimes. How do we do this?
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Tom Bown
Tom Bown
1 day ago
Make vote republicans in midterms but make them aware that they don’t go down the same path, US putting control centre for Ukraine in Germany says two things, US involved secondly that Ukraine is not winning!
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KiteoHatto
18 hours ago
Dont you have guns ?
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Girl Has No Name
8 hours ago
Same. I remember telling my kids back in the day how blessed we were to live in this country. Now? ..not so much 😞
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Seija Charles
6 hours ago
The line of command doesn’t end at the halls of power in DC. Taking a tour of the Freemasons’ “museum” will help us to conclude all roads still lead to Rome. There is the conclave of power where all kings and rulers are subservient. And where dissenters meet their demise, in governance or otherwise.
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Lock K
40 minutes ago
you need a popular civil rebellion

Gavin Hillick
1 day ago
Oscar Wilde said “the problem is that the English can’t remember history, while the Irish can’t forget it”.
I’m Irish and I’m painfully aware of how little most Brits know about their colonial history. Obviously our proximity is one reason, but Iimagine people in a lot of other former colonies are aware of this lack of knowledge.
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John Best
1 day ago
The fact you call Ireland colony of Britain, shows your own lack of understanding of Ireland and Britain.
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Gavin Hillick
1 day ago
@John Best How so?
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Gamerno985
1 day ago
@John Best don’t you know about the Irish famine?
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Gavin Hillick
1 day ago
@Gamerno985 Going by his other comments, he’s a very confused troll.
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Yurichtube
1 day ago
They deserve what they get then.
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Puzotero Ofigatto
1 day ago
@Gavin Hillick Just take it as another proof of ignorance of the Brits. They can’t imagine (let alone admit) how cruel they were to others.
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Gavin Hillick
1 day ago
@Puzotero Ofigatto He wrote another comment saying he and all other Brits are both aware and proud of it. Using American spelling.
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John Best
1 day ago
@Gavin Hillick Because that’s not what happened. Also sorry for my passive aggressive reply and thanks for your kind response. Basically its a mix of different things. So you has Irish invasions of Britain, Viking rule in Ireland/with invasions of Britain. You has Norway controlling some island off the coast of Scotland. Then the Irish defeated the Vikings and drove them out. The the British did the same thing. The British then came up the rule of the Normans, who then expanded into Ireland/Wales and Scottish the feudal system. You had rebellions in Ireland, invasions of Ireland from Scotland, Spain and France. You had a lot of different things go on. No doubt the plantation of Ulster was colonialism. However Ireland had its own Parliament, its own regiments in the British army, it ruled itself. Then the 1798 rebellion happened, the Union was brought in and you got the reform acts in the 1830’s and so. So Ireland wasn’t a colony, like the others. Its far more complex with Ireland and Britain.
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John Best
1 day ago
@Gamerno985 I know about 4 Irish famines, three under British rule and one under the Irish Republic. Which are you talking about?
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John Best
1 day ago
@Gavin Hillick Where did I say I was proud of it? Its just the fact of Britain and the English really. We don’t care about it, we are proud of it. Its hard for other people to accept it. I think imperialism is evil and England should become an independent country.
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Tom Middlefinger
1 day ago
We all know the suppposd “b a d thngs” our whte ancestrs (or in this case Brtsh) ancestrs) are supposd to have done. Its drummd into k1ds in schooool now for generat1ons. My argumnt is that my ancestrs did FAR MORE GOOOD than badd. All humn grps colonzed since the dwn of tyme. No one is more “guiltty” than any other.
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Volkssturmer 58
1 day ago
@John Best Ireland was the first brit colony.
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Volkssturmer 58
1 day ago
Buono said ” Irishmen and Argentines have 3 common trends, catholicism, love beer drinking, and hate brits”
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John Best
1 day ago
@Volkssturmer 58 No.
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Paranoid Balloon
1 day ago
@Volkssturmer 58 Typo “baths”

Ian Hills
1 day ago
With all those terrorist atrocities, you have a lot to apologise for
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darthex0
1 day ago (edited)
I’m a sixth generation Australian with Anglo Saxon heritage, which includes Irish, and many cultures as relatives.
My most honest conversations with the first nations peoples has repetitively included a reference to “The Irish” being the worst offenders when it came to their exploitation!
Within the bounds of the genocidal decree, posited by the crown, that is.
Even Aboriginals actively pursued other Aboriginals, under the same directives, but the Irish were the worst.
Why that is, I would suggest, most likely comes down to the same generational religeous conflict existing between the two, that was imported with them, and still exists in Europe to this day.
Protestant Vs. Catholic!
The distance of the Australian colonies from this had two effects. One, those wishing to blame the anger of that conflict on a third innocent party could do so and profit from it. And two, those who wished to, could choose not to prioritise it as a prevailing hindrance and make a new start with little consequence.
In the end the ability for self provision trumped this poison, and those still tied to that European conflict fell by the wayside.
It has only been the continued injection by those maintaining a dependence on establishment that have maintained it.
Through the continued importation of ignorant immigrants.
This also keeps the false premise alive of their own utility.
These people provide no worth to Australia, nor does their cultural servitude to an engineered eternal conflict.
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a stafford
1 day ago
@darthex0 The queen’s dead get over it. And stop your crawling.

a stafford
1 day ago
@John Best It was . Deal with it.

Robbie Wizz
1 day ago
@Tom Middlefinger best thing for you is not to have an argument and don’t feel guilty don’t try to defend it though with what they did good nonsense. Because as a recipient of the still felt affects inequalities and legacies I can tell you and most of the global south as your now seeing don’t feel the same but don’t blame you . We can all co exist in harmony hoping for the betterment of all mankind. But as we see some are still clinging to their ex colonial past lying through their teeth and exploiting killing and looting others . UK, US bullying sanctioning military intervening and France with its 14 country colonial pact strangling African countries with threats of creating destabilisation regime change and forcing countries to bank their countries money in their banks then making them take loans on their own money. Evil 👿
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Gavin Hillick
18 hours ago (edited)
@darthex0 Firstly, I dont care what brand of white settler you identify as except to correct you. Your Anglo-Saxon heritage does not include Irish heritage. You should really know that if you’re going to claim both.
To the substance of your comment: I’m not an indigenous Australian so I wouldn’t presume to speak for them but to let them speak for themselves. Apparently you aren’t aboriginal either so I wonder why you’re relaying a second-hand anecdote about your fellow settlers to me. Are you doing anything to rectify the atrocities committed by your ancestors or is this the extent of it?
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jacob nazarian
8 hours ago
The frogs as well like the Brits selectively remember their history and are are proud of it but they can’t remember their losses , In the Crimean war in 1850, GB, France and Ottoman Turkey ( All empires by the way) attacked Russia to take it to prevent Russia from having access to the Black See and they lost and here we go again . I feel sorry for those Europeans who jumped on the American bandwagon , they should ask themselves what are they benefiting from this war , do they have shares in the arms factories or are they selling their gas and petrol by the embargo on Russia , are they able to afford the double increase in prices of petrol , bread , vegetables , meat , rent and higher interest rates
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Anna-Marie du Preez
1 hour ago
@ Gavin Hillick, in South Africa there is a monument for the Irish solders that fought with the Boers against England in the Anglo – Boer war 1899- 1902.

Kinky
1 day ago
I’m a US citizen and I recognize the new areas of Russia! LET’S GO BRANDON!!
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Margarita Dubrovina
1 day ago
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IF IF
1 day ago
Thank you for your support 🙏
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Margarita Regler
1 day ago
@Margarita Dubrovina Love to you and Russia – I am German and living in USA. I pray that Russia will liberate my homeland from the occupiers from across the sea. Many US citizens have no love for their regime but are as helpless as the people in the EU.
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Margarita Dubrovina
1 day ago
@Margarita Regler I live in Boston, thank you darling, I can’t believe what happened to Germany . I have a lot of real friends in Germany, we talk a lot….. sad! Very sad! 🙏🥰
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Margarita Regler
1 day ago
@Margarita Dubrovina Spasiba. I always had Russian people in my life. I am praying for Russia, Deutschland, and all people of good will. I live in Maine, we are neighbours.
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Dinner with Franklin
1 day ago
The other is any better? He just said he’d drop nuclear bombs on Russia. In my opinion that is not better at all and may be worse
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Margarita Dubrovina
1 day ago
@Margarita Regler ❤️
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Kinky
1 day ago
@Margarita Regler Me too! lol! YEP…. We have no democracy here.
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buzuxi
1 day ago
I am a Greek-American and I recognize the areas of Donbas and Kherson as Russian. And I’m speaking on behalf of my entire family and relatives and friends.
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Olga Kuchukov
1 day ago (edited)
💜💚💜💚💜💚 Vermont 😉!
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Hans Weichselbaum
9 hours ago
Why don’t you move to one of those new Russian provinces. You might even receive the honour of fighting for Comrade Putin!

buzuxi
9 hours ago
@Hans Weichselbaum – Personally I will be looking to add to the passports I hold and Russian will be one. I like Crimea

Hans Weichselbaum
8 hours ago
@buzuxi But make sure that you actually go there AND live there. Collecting passports is just a hobby.

dmode
1 day ago
Africa and African people worldwide stands with Russia and the Russian people. Congratulations!
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Paul Fraser
Paul Fraser
1 day ago
This is beyond scary. I regret being born as a citizen of a government ( Canada ) that played even the smallest hand in fermenting this conflict instead of looking to get us peace and prosperity.
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Greg Smith
Greg Smith
1 day ago
I have been absolutely puzzled by Western leaders, especially in the United States, who have chosen to view and treat Putin like Hussein and Gaddafi. He is infinitely different than both, and significantly smarter than most world leaders.
As this develops further, always remember Putin’s famous quote from 2013: “The West Lives In Debt.” The Soviet Union dissolved when the debt to GDP ratio was reported to be around 140% Going into the Ukraine SMO, Russia’s debt to GDP ratio was around 15%-17%. Putin understands the ramifications of debt. Ironically, the West, especially in the United States, are repeating the same financial mistakes of the Soviet Union. The United States debt to GDP ratio is around 130%. It can definitely go well beyond 140%, but it’s simply not sustainable. Hyperinflation, debt maturities, etc., will eventually lead to collapse.
Putin is not a rabid despot, as many would like us to believe. He’s a 3 dimensional chess player who calculates, plans, and executes, unlike other leaders who can best be deemed as Pavlovian.
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Sylvia Frost
Sylvia Frost
1 day ago
I hope I can see the speech. I never thought I would say this, but my respect for this man grows deeper by the day. May God be with all of Russia!! Peace to the Donbas and to this world!! 🇷🇺☮️❤️
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Andy Kyriakides
Andy Kyriakides
1 day ago
I don’t know who wrote Putin’s speech , but he delivered it from his heart and soul , absolutely brilliant , whether you’re Russian or not .
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indigo jones
1 day ago
It makes me very sad that our “leaders” in the west, the EU unelected and the intrusive WEF have spoiled all chance of peace and prosperity in Europe- probably for generations and probably far beyond Europe as well.
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Elizabeth Robb
Elizabeth Robb
1 day ago
PUTIN is absolutely spot on. How can any sane person disagree with him.
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Honey j
Honey j
1 day ago
There are a lot of westerners who admire and respect Putin.
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Inna Valkova
Inna Valkova
1 day ago
Putin has just named the things as they are. Loudly and precisely, as always.
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Wholly Braille
Wholly Braille
1 day ago
I read this speech with a great degree of admiration. Appreciate someone speaking the truth. One of Pres. Putin’s heroes is Peter the Great? It shows. btw, I’m American.
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RC TankGO
1 day ago
Thanks guys!.At last a world leader has dared to speak the direct truth and without euphemisms. I think it is a relief for many of us, who have experienced in our countries the totalitarian doctrine of the US democratic fallacy.
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Pete the Greek
Pete the Greek
1 day ago
A speech intended for Russia’s adversaries to hear in order to understand their foe.
I completely concur with Putin’s assessment of the entire west.
It’s extremely challenging to dispute what he said.
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Loye Young
1 day ago
The four regions followed exactly the same procedure that Texas followed when it seceded from Mexico and later became part of the USA. Texas fought a war to gain independece from Mexico, with French and USA help. Shortly after the Texas Revolution, Texas voted to join the USA. After Texas joined the USA, the USA and Mexico went to war over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico, and in that war, Mexico lost about a third of its territory, which is how most of western USA became part of the USA.
If the procedure in the Donbass is not valid, then Mexico has a valid claim to Texas and the western half of the USA.
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Vinod Kumar
Vinod Kumar
1 day ago
Today Putin showed the mirror to the West. More power to Russia.
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Paco’s human
Paco’s human
1 day ago
What a world where a brilliant and compassionate leader exists! We’ve not seen this in the U.S. for 30+ years.
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Iris Enamorado
1 day ago
I am lucky to witness such a great leader and such historical event in my life time.
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John Grytbakk
John Grytbakk
1 day ago
It is so sad and worrying to see how the West has fallen in our day. Totally without sane and wise leaders it seems. Lost in the dark, headed for the cliffs. It is not going to end well this.
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Oscar Silva Valladares
Oscar Silva Valladares
1 day ago
Beyond the accession of 4 former UKR oblasts, Putin’s speech today is historical as it defines the framework of Russia’s bid to assert world leadership vs. the West. In this context, the outcome of the local battles being fought at this time are just footnotes.
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President Clinton
President Clinton
1 day ago
Vladimir Putin is the Greatest Leader of our lifetime
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Patricia
Patricia
1 day ago
I listen to every word of Putins speech and he was 100% spot on. Excellent speech!
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PERFECT WAGNERITE
PERFECT WAGNERITE
1 day ago
What I garnered from Mr Putins speech was that he lay the blame for the catastrophic policies of the collective West soundly at the feet of our so called “elites” and not the people.I thought that it was extraordinarily perceptive and lucid .
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Zorro
Zorro
1 day ago
It was a brilliant speech. Prob even more brilliant than Munich 2007. Putin sent a message not only to Russians but also to the whole world and many nations personally as well explaining what we’re fighting for.
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Ethel Rusty
1 day ago
Don’t forget there’s many of us in the collective west who agree with Putin as far as this speech goes. Also I am tired of people trying to hold the current generations responsible for things that happened before they were even born.
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Kent Jensen
Kent Jensen
1 day ago
I’m Norwegian and ashamed that my country is one of the four most corrupt nations in Europe, the other three being England, Poland, and Ukraine. I hope the strength of Russia will defeat our evil and in the end save our National soul. And I love the Duran boys.
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Archseer_
Archseer_
1 day ago
not a popular opinion where I’m currently based in and from. but I agree what he said during his speech echoes what I had been feeling and thinking for the longest time. His speech filled me with a sense of pride, hope and strength, and I’m not even from his country.
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TudorMiron
TudorMiron
1 day ago (edited)
Today’s speech makes the famous 2007 Munich speech into something very soft. Today Putin said openly what the western civilization (Anglosaxon) actually is.
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Donelda MacDonnell
Donelda MacDonnell
1 day ago
CNN is already taking his speech out of context. I agree wholeheartedly with everything Putin said. But I am alone in my beliefs. I hope he can take the rest of Ukraine under his wing too. From Canada 🇨🇦
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Kirsty.G33
Kirsty.G33
1 day ago
It was a fantastic speech, when he spoke about children, values and religion I was clapping along. I’m so happy for the 4 new Russian federation members. Congratulations to you all. 👏
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Margaret Halliburton
Margaret Halliburton
1 day ago
70yr old in Montana, US weeping for all of the lies we have all been told and the faces on all of those leaders were of extreme sadness in the situation but happy for the greatly needed halt to the US empire.
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David Greenwood
David Greenwood
1 day ago
I think Putin is totally correct.I am deeply ashamed of being British,and have been so for many years.
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Jason Delvaux
Jason Delvaux
1 day ago
Putin is not taking these four regions into Russia. The four regions are willingly joining Russia. That is a very critical distinction.
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Robert Lindh
Robert Lindh
1 day ago
As a swedish citizen in Poland I just want to say: I love you both!
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Motorized Droid
Motorized Droid
1 day ago
I am actually scared about the moment Putin will no longer be. This guy needs to be alive 200 years
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Stuart Dear
Stuart Dear
1 day ago
As a citizen of the ‘collective west’ I feel it necessary to point out that ‘delighted’ would be a better description for how I feel at the moment. if I’m infuriated with anything it’s my own rancid political establishment, the MSM and the willing idiots who still believe their garbage.
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Lilacer
1 day ago
Putin has well and truly turned the world upside down. This is just hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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CrazySemigallian
CrazySemigallian
1 day ago
Hi guys thanks for your work. Was watching this historic Putins speech live ,he absolutely nailed west.But most importantly he gave confidence to the people of those regions as saying that they joined Russia for good and forever,and won’t be left behind.
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IF IF
1 day ago
Putin’s historical speech will be rewatched over and over again decades from now. Long Live Russia. Peace to all 🇷🇺🙏❤️🎊
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– SARGNT Clash Royale and More! –
1 day ago
I’m from the UK and happy for the Donbass citizens who now can live in peace and continue a normal life
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BeSureYouAreSavedDOTcom
BeSureYouAreSavedDOTcom
1 day ago
A speech for the ages. Biblical/prophetic times.
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Act justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly.
Act justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly.
1 day ago
That was a remarkable speech. He said, what I as a German think.
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Anna Startseva
Anna Startseva
1 day ago
Thank you so much all the people outside Russia who can now see the the truth and thank you for the support. Maybe we are not the best but we always wanted peace. I wish you could all come and see our beautiful country for what it is- friendly, hospitable and just simply stunning ❤️
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Aschalew Fekede
Aschalew Fekede
1 day ago
Ya today Putin’s Speech will have a place in literature text book. Great Speech.
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Jeanette Collis
1 day ago
His speech was incredible.
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C S
C S
1 day ago (edited)
Congratulations to Donetsk, Lugansk. Zaporozhe and Kherson for becoming a part of Russia!!! Now I really hope for peace for these people. Love to Russia congratulations!
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Father of Liez
Father of Liez
1 day ago
After hearing Putins speech im even more pro Russian lol
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* Mako *
1 day ago (edited)
For me as a Greek with many Russian friends this is a historic day after eight years of the genocide in the Donbass. The liberated territories returned home❤Now they can prosper. Russia is now 120,000 square km bigger and 10.6 million people richer. BTW the liberated areas amount for 80% of Ukraine’s GDP. Thank you Duran for staying calm and objective. Best format💯
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Mr. 13 ZN
Mr. 13 ZN
1 day ago
Wish we in England had a moral powerful leader, that believed in their country like Putin does.
Thanks guys for great content this week.
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Logic105
1 day ago
It took major balls for Putin to do this. He just took that ultimate step to ascend to the echelon of prominent leaders in the history of the world. Was this the right or wrong move? We shall see. But it took great balls to do this.
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Joyce Ireland
Joyce Ireland
1 day ago
Good luck to Russia 🇷🇺 I hope their country gets stronger by the day. We in the west are screwed thankyou America
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james bond
1 day ago
Russians, lovely people, great nation, blessed by God. Long live Russia. Love from India.
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TheSecurdisc
TheSecurdisc
1 day ago
Very good speech by President Putin 🇬🇧.
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A. Randomjack
1 day ago
I also appreciated the fact that Putin did not address any dead person nor shake any invisible hand. 👻
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Rosemary Howes
Rosemary Howes
1 day ago
I want to listen to the whole of Putin’s speech. I will not Bury my head in ignorance. 👏👍🌹❤️🇬🇧
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Robbo
1 day ago
So hypocritical of us in the west to label these referendums a sham etc., particularly when in 1991 & 1992, the west not only approved then recognised, but also engineered independence referendums in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, which effectively killed the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Tito’s Yugoslavia), a country which happened to be a member of the UN & whose borders were also internationally recognised. Then in 2008, the west once again not only approved, recognised but also engineered a referendum in Serbian Province of Kosovo & Metohija. So in all these places, the west sited the principle of “self determination” in accounting for why they recognised all those independence referendums, although it should also be said the west curiously never applied the same principle to the Serbs of Croatia & Serbs of Bosnia, but that’s another story. It’s therefore all very simple…….”rules for me (the west) but not for thee (Putin-man-bad)!!!
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Fleur
Fleur
1 day ago
What striked me immediately in Putin’s speech is that for the first time, he did not use the word western partners any more but ennemies. I do not recall if he was specifically or exclusively referring to the US/GB ? then. His speech was reproduced in live by Earl. Grey, so any one interested can still find it on Mike’s latest video of today.
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Julette Murray
Julette Murray
1 day ago
I agree 100% with the the assessment/analysis of Mr. Putin’s speech. We can sadly expect to see more acts of terrorism on Russian’s infrastructure and against Russian people. I pray for their safety and protection. I hope the rest of Ukraine will be liberated from the power of darkness soon.🇯🇲
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dorothy allen
1 day ago
I am a patriot American and I will be reading Putin’s speech and I have been following Putin for years, I also have studied worldwide history and he’s studied also. I am very embarrassed and very aware of what our American government leaders have done for years. We the people must be the ones to rectify what has gone on, please pray that Americans step forward and take control of our government leaders and our country become all that God source and creator wants his creation to be. Thank you.
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earthSCAN NZ
earthSCAN NZ
1 day ago
Respect from New Zealand Mr Putin – God Bless Russia
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Shari Dorr
1 day ago
I think more people than most think, in the west, have found a way to hear Putin’s speech this morning. He said what many Westerners have been saying for a while. We who understand history, know that he is right. It was sad, yet wonderful to hear truth being spoken. I wish I were younger and able to move to Russia so I could live out my life in a fairer more human society. Instead my Russian friends in Canada show me the sadness they feel as they cannot afford to go home, They left a destroyed Russia, by the west, to come to a country that is becoming more Totalitarian and evil every day and now they see they were fooled. I feel like my life has been a series of lies that have harvested me and my family. I have always spoken out but that leaves you isolated today. Its hard to face that some people really want to be in a horrible Marxist, Totalitarian society, that destroys children for a ridiculous ideology.
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MP
MP
1 day ago
Go Putin!
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Steve McCormack
Steve McCormack
1 day ago
Actions always speak louder than words. When the USA destroyed the Nordstream 1 and 2 pipelines, they showed us who they are. Not that we didn’t already know.
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SharonD
1 day ago
I absolutely respect and admire the wisdom you both bring to every single update, every single day.❤️🙏
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HolyCannoli
1 day ago
Just wanted to say thanks for your coverage of this topic from the outset. In a whirlwind of propaganda, you guys have faithfully kept track of the realities of the situation. Sincere compliments. ♥️
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cmonkey63
15 hours ago
The encouragement I receive on a daily basis from this channel is hard to quantify, but I am grateful for all you guys do. I’ll see you all on locals for the next live stream, if I can stay awake at the late hour. It’s GMT+8 where I live.
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Hamza Ahmed
1 day ago
Putin actually said , paraphrase ” its been Russia’s role in history to deal with such people (neocones).”
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ArryCrispcfc
ArryCrispcfc
1 day ago (edited)
Watched it on Earl Grey. Gloves are off. No more off this “partners” bollox. Enemies and about time too. Slava Russia 🇷🇺. Odssa next.
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Sheila Baltz
1 day ago
Today I fell in love with a country, it’s people and it’s leader. Such pride and worthy of it! I’ve always heard about the Russian spirit and now I know what they mean. May God bless Russia!!
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Zukisa Mabusela
1 day ago
Good day gents..The whole world should pray for Russia, the last bastion of a free world.. Za pobedu Russia 🇷🇺
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cm Fox
cm Fox
1 day ago
I think Putin is pretty embarrassed for the sake of britain and germany he actually seems even quite shocked how much of a lackey we’ve all become
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Reese Digital
1 day ago
You guys really knocked it out the park today with the reporting. Very clear and precise breakdown on all the key points. You guys stay motivated and above all safe. Take care…
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James McNicholas
1 day ago
Thank you guys. Objective and informative as ever. The west is a far poorer place, financially and more importantly culturally with the departure of such a noble and brave Nation 😓
💜✝️ Northern Ireland
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JM Rudolph
1 day ago
The British empire‘s principle is summarized as »legalized lawlessness« by the historian Caroline Elkins: Legacy of Violence is the title of her book. A truely disgusting history of the British elite which is still living and practicing along this summary: legalized lawlessness.
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Mike Watts
Mike Watts
1 day ago
Best political speech in my lifetime. Congratulations 🇷🇺. Love from 🇮🇪
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mw3516405
1 day ago (edited)
Duran Guys , Thank you for sharing your thoughts and interpretations. We appreciate you both. Peace and blessings everybody 🙏
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Not_Intimidated
1 day ago
Great update. The amazing thing from the beginning for many of us Americans is that a great number of retired military/veterans see everything clearly and it’s helped those of us who don’t know the particulars about military operations how to see everything for what it really is. And your analyses corroborate that. Thank you so very much.
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D64nz
1 day ago
Regarding Dresden
For those who don’t know the background of the reference to Dresden, here is the short version. It’s known as being a worse attack than both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in terms of civilians killed. Desden was a german city largely built of wood and when the British bombers came to destroy it, they set the entire town on fire. Very few, or almost no one walked out of that city afterwards, and they suffered horrendous fatalities. Even more than either of the Japanese cities that were nuked. What few survivors there were told a story of the fire being instant and all consuming. It may even be the idea behind thermo barbaric weapons that suck the air out of an area but from what I’ve read it was still the fire itself that did most of the damage.
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Scarlett Rayvyn
Scarlett Rayvyn
1 day ago
Nice- love the longer Duran videos! Always excellent discussion!! Thanks for your work guys! Its much appreciated.
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Doug Bell
1 day ago
These level-headed and unbiased analytical updates are of immense value and greatly appreciated. ✔️
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Deathless
1 day ago
“Somebody came along and pointed at the monster who is an actual monster and not a saint which it pretends to be” god damn that’s poetic
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Marlene Soria
1 day ago
We are in front of history, a historical leader and living in interesting times.
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John Griffin
John Griffin
1 day ago
One of the best speeches of all time, best wishes to all of Russia and it’s people from Ireland.
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Hybrid Roundhead
1 day ago
I had a few American friends who went to Russia in the 1990s as Protestant missionaries. They didn’t even think that the Orthodox were Christians. How haughty and contemptable!
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Audeo
Audeo
1 day ago
Hope as many as possible people of the world hear his speech and support Russia
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Domithacus Van Thistlebloom
1 day ago
Thanks Alex and Alexander. I watch your commentary pretty much everyday. There are two types of people in life. Those that believe in a story and those that seek truth. Your work is so important to boil down to the truth
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Kareen Rennie KizzieWiz
1 day ago
I watched the speech on iEarlGrey. It was quite emotional. I wish Russia well.
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Soberano Brasil
1 day ago (edited)
Thank you, Alex and Alexander. Where would we be without the Clarity that you bring to our lives, to these strange times? It’s shocking, but we need some light so that things can make some sense. May God help us all.
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Rae Gomez
Rae Gomez
1 day ago (edited)
I read the entire speech with English translation. He said out loud what everyone knows about the west. We all needed to have the bright white light put on the evil doers in the west. Dare I say I felt a sense of pride?!? I’m a California native by the way.
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TruthSeeker
1 day ago
That was an EPIC historic speech!!!
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Eliana J.
Eliana J.
1 day ago
As they chanted during the signing: Russia, Russia, Russia! 🎉❤
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Grand PaPa
1 day ago (edited)
Thank you for the sober analysis.
I am ashamed of what the “leaders” of my country USA have done.
Up until 4 years ago i did not know so much about these issues.
You and other sober presenters are doing real good so we can change what is going on.
Cheers
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Ray El
1 day ago
I watched the ceremony live. And yes, it was awesome.
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Damon Urbani
1 day ago
Everything he said was the absolute truth.
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Lori Rober
1 day ago
A very excellent analysis on a historic event. Thank you both so much for your intelligent and thorough break-down of everything.
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Michael Harvey
1 day ago
I watched Putins speech and he makes the West look like buffoons
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elin4e83
elin4e83
1 day ago
I am Bulgarian and could understand his speech in original. It was powerful and he also realises that
many people in the West and in Europe think so too. He really challenged the current system and hegemony of USA and its vassal states. I live in Germany and if it were not for this war, I would think happily I live in a souveranand free country.
But the war and his speech really opened my eyes that unfortunately we in Germany, Bulgaria and whole of EU are just puppets whih USA uses as collateral damage if needed!
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Hellothere
Hellothere
1 day ago (edited)
This is absolutely unbelievable. I’m going to find a proper translation. Gonna start learning Russian. God bless Russia 🇷🇺
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African last born
1 day ago (edited)
This speech was fully written by Putin, he always to comes to task when everybody seems frightened.
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M C
1 day ago (edited)
At the UNO meeting last week “UNGA #77 “. Most of the leaders of these countries said the same thing as Putin openly. And Lavrov’s speech continues to break records as the most watched. The world has awakened.
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Diane Fogel
Diane Fogel
1 day ago
I so appreciate your assessment of the current events. There are precious few places anymore where one can hear intelligent dialogue on what is going on in the world.
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John Henni
1 day ago
Putin has nailed it precisely when he justly criticises the U.S. and UK
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S Sartré
S Sartré
1 day ago
Great video! Alexander is so right when he says 34:44. “everybody knows who is really responsible” a devastating statement not only because it is correct but because it is devastating to know that no one is capable of raising their voice in protest against such an outrageous act.
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Paul Morris
1 day ago
President Putin’s views
on the West are also shared by many people in the West including myself.
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pianorama
1 day ago
Fantastic speech. Russia has come through a dark night of the soul, and today begins a new era.
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Mike Austin
Mike Austin
1 day ago
Putin is the most important and serious man of our age.
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Dave B
1 day ago
Great show guys as always.
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Roy Evans
1 day ago
Putin looks in good health too, astonishing recovery he has made!
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Ed Jonatchick
Ed Jonatchick
1 day ago
Well, Putin doesn’t seem to be afraid of the west and if NATO thought they could beat Russia they would have entered the fight already. Fighting by proxy means you don’t have to say you lost after the fact.
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Isabela
Isabela
1 day ago
Thank you again, Alex and Alexander for the amazing work you do daily.
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Michele McNeill
1 day ago
Thank you both for the education I have gotten listening to you both these several months.
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Antony Wooster
1 day ago
29:00 Very interesting issue! I liked the summary of the impact of Putin’s speech. Boy! What a speech that was! That speech said out loud, almost all the things I have wished over the years, that Soviet, Russian and Chinese leaders would say. That Putin felt able to say them Today, is a measure of Russian power and the confidence it gives him. It is also a signal to the World outside the West (WoW) that the West is a paper tiger and that it is past its peak power.
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Aleksandra Sereda
Aleksandra Sereda
22 hours ago
Absolutely brilliant report, Alex and Alexander! Pleasure to my ears 🙏❤️ thank you, you are amazing people!

Robbie
16 hours ago
I’m in the US and listened to it live and I wished I wasn’t working so I could pay 100% attention, because everything I heard, it was so spot on and powerful, and really captures your attention the way he says, presents, and explains things very clearly and intentionally. He really appears to be a good leader to and for his people.

BadWolfTX21
1 day ago (edited)
I don’t know what I expected to happen after today but, it’s interesting how Ukraine & 🤡Zeleinsky became instantly irrelevant in all this even while the fight on the ground continues.
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Mario Diaz-Perez
Mario Diaz-Perez
1 day ago
I needed my daily dose of the Duran like a drug today!
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Rosie
1 day ago (edited)
Great channel, look forward to the updates, thoroughly enjoy your analysis of what’s happening with Russia, Ukraine and the west. Thank you.
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blue norsky
1 day ago
Your right Alexander. I knew ,and was my friend ,an American who fled to Britain to avoid the draft. His mother had married a Yank after the second world war and went to live in the States like many British woman did at that time. His mother would not let him fight in Vietnam as she knew it was an illegal war. A lot of good young Americans died there for political reasons only. I’m not sure , but I believe one of the reasons JFK was executed because he was eventually going to pull out of there.
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tim k
17 hours ago
Great coverage, guys! As always. Bless you!
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Cathy Currie
1 day ago
Many of us in Canada/USA feel the same as Much of the world. We are frustrated at what the leaders have been doing. Vietnam. Many other wars. So many conflicts and so Obvious the 2 Iraq Wars. Even the military I met in Germany felt sickened by the Iraq war…. am so hoping Justice will finally prevail.
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TheMan
TheMan
1 day ago
Putin is one a best statement in our lifetime.. We lucky to have a leader like him.
the injustice that the collective West has inflicted on the rest of the word..
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B One
B One
1 day ago
i was celebrating as if it was my country so happy for russia .. they won a just war .. greetings from tunisia 🇷🇺🇷🇺❤❤🇹🇳🇹🇳
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br br
br br
13 hours ago
What a speech! And what a professional coverage from Duran!
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Manu De Backer
1 day ago (edited)
To my knowledge this is the first time in history someone called out the problem of this planet while the whole world in one way or another was listening. Pretty heavy.
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E.P.
E.P.
1 day ago
That speech and signing was amazing. Another mic drop by Putin. Well done Duran ,thank you.
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Reza
1 day ago
Outstanding speech from Putin. Many Westerners wish that they had a leader just like Putin, that’s a fact. Excellent commentary, thank you very much, gentlemen!!!
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Jason Edwards
1 day ago
Well done guys, please keep up the great work.
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Alexander Miller
1 day ago
Phenomenal, objective and assertive. A monumentous moment for our time.❤
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Nata Lia
1 day ago
As a Russian, I can say, that before this smo I was very neutral, didn’t follow any political events. And couldn’t find my opinion on Putin. But since the start of this military operation I did a big research, watch lots of videos of speeches of Putin, Lavrov and other ru representatives, read about Patrushev, Glaziev, Karaganov.
At the end now I’m calling my president Papa Putin
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dean smith
1 day ago
Thank you gentlemen for all the work you do to keep us informed. We live in a new age but the old world can’t let go of the new. Interesting time indeed
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Ret Tro
1 day ago
The collective Western emperor has no clothes, and Putin proved it.
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eristaviserbia
1 day ago (edited)
Curiously enough, the Wikipedia article about the territories which have acceded to the Russian Federation “make up around 15% of Ukraine’s territory”. This is similar to how Kosovo and Metohija constitutes 15% of Serbia’s territory. I am glad that this has finally happened. May it be the beginning of a different framework of international relations.
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Ruby
Ruby
1 day ago (edited)
I am shocked to know that British do not learn about history …I want to see their textbooks now! Btw we all logged on to speech today ..felt almost like what people would have felt during the fall of Berlin war or breakup of USSR..history was made and it’s scary!
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Michael Hertwig
Michael Hertwig
1 day ago
All I can say is: God bless Russia and Putin. They are all that stands between us and a woke western version of Dante’s Inferno.
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Nelson Carreiro
1 day ago
Thank you. You do such great work and service to humanity.
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Goofy Gus
1 day ago
When Vlad throws down the Goebbels card you know things are serious.
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Elisabeth Steel
1 day ago
I totally agree with you guys, and your analysis! We are moving into very dangerous times, something to be aware of! Thank you for sharing! 🤔👍
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Daniel Powell
1 day ago
As the World grows ever darker the Duran illuminates and educates like no other channel anywhere in western media.. Always compelling always incisive.. These guys put our pathetic craven MSM so called journalists to utter shame, if the shameless could ever feel such an emotion..I take my hat off to two of the best in the business!
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Tato Verde
1 day ago
A historic speech
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Aftab Khan
1 day ago
Guys thank again for an excellent analysis and hope the people in Europe and America may be able to get some insight on the situation and see the TRUTH for themselves.
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William Diaz
1 day ago
From where I’m sitting, I watched your show, as I often do, I find it intellectually stimulating, today however it was different, I became emotionally engaged, I was moved, moved to tears, I am , as I have mentioned before, a 73 Afro-Latino, and have been a victim, although I served in the USMC, of racism in America, in one form or another, throughout my life, Putin put his finger on an exposed nerve, America is predominantly an Anglo-Saxon nation, and it has severe racist tendencies, any person of color, any non-white country, cannot help but be moved by his words, we get it, thank you for having the cojones, to say what many of us think, My Two Cents!
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Sherezade
1 day ago
Burn baby Burn! The pain can join NATO like it will make any difference at all. Congratulations to Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Donetsk and Kherson (forgive me for the missed mention) today is a day of celebration and may we see many more to come. God bless President Vladimir Putin and all of the Russian people of all religions united as one! Go from strength to strength and victory to victory as one God willing!✨
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Walter Rodrigues
Walter Rodrigues
1 day ago
CA$13.99
Thanks! It’s interesting that Putin said the bombing of Dresden etc. was meant as a threat to Russia! I never thought of that…but he may have a point.
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Theo Roma
Theo Roma
1 day ago
I have often crticised you about your military nous, but nobody can analyse political speech or read out better than you. I always respect your analytical skills.
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Zoi Puii
1 day ago
Great analysis , Thank you for your courage, inspiration and inform us the truth.
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Christophe Helbert
1 day ago
Charisma is about saying out loud what others just dare to whisper.
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Richard Moonstone
1 day ago
Great stuff as always. Thanks for the updates. Peace and love.
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Heather Rayfield
1 day ago
We are living in very challenging times. So many people are totally unaware of everything that is going on. I remember the Cold War in the 70s/80s….this feels very different…😔
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Jay M
Jay M
1 day ago
As a man born in the early 80’s, I can inform you that I have often had discussions marked with disgust about what happened in British colonies with many people from all walks of life all over the world. Maybe it’s a generational thing, I’m not sure. But I have been involved in and heard many a conversation on the topic over the years.
Keep up the fantastic work gentlemen
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pradyumn singh
1 day ago
Putin is pure gold. Slava russia
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Somtirth Chaudhuri
1 day ago
It was a brilliant speech, lots of love and respect from India.
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Joe Bennett
1 day ago
Thanks guys! Great work, as usual.
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Perrenial Tourist
21 hours ago
One of the best commentaries of this long and interminable conflict. Thank-you Gentlemen!
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CABANO M
1 day ago
A great man we don’t have in the West unfortunately.
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boshaveit
1 day ago (edited)
I’m from the UK and I’m always trying to remind people about what we’ve done, in places that don’t border ours.. People are waking up, but there’s a lot of 🐑
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Kristin Richards
1 day ago
Hey guys much love to you both thanks for all that you 🙏🏼💜✌🏼
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MuantanamoMobile
1 day ago (edited)
At 5:55 I think calling Erdogan a solid ally, or even imagining him as one, rather than on an ad-hoc and case by case basis, would be a grave mistake. He has over the years shown himself to be self interested and a back stabber at the best of times. Generally an all round headache to everyone.
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Robert Olweny
Robert Olweny
1 day ago
They hate him because he is just too smart for them!!! They would love for him to be as hopeless as Boris, both Borises for that matter!!! 😂😂😂
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Dinner with Franklin
1 day ago
Putin is able to give such a wide ranging and exquisite speech because, unlike the collective West, Russia has continued to recognize the value of education and fund it so his audience is undeniably more educated and able to think critically.
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Anthony Delgado
9 hours ago
Great show as always!
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Hannah Velthuysen
1 day ago
Excellent reporting. THANK YOU BOTH.
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Marc Deckx
1 day ago
I followed the speech live, it was the best speech ever, thank you for the very good update. Best regards from Belgium
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Theresa O’Brien
19 hours ago
Always upbeat, brilliant and true. Thankyou!!!! ❤❤
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andersbluff
1 day ago
Excellent q&a as always. Thankyou gents.
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Neolithic Xalid
1 day ago
I salute the moral leader of the real free world. Congratulations to the new members of Nova Russia. My respects go to those who lost their lives in this conflict, especially to those gone in this historical today…
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DeeDee M
1 day ago
When Putin was talking about the mutilating of children in the name of gender I saw tears in the eyes of some of those people who were listening to the speech. It made me almost cry seeing their reactions.
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Monophthalmus
Monophthalmus
1 day ago
Thank you for the excellent analysis once again.
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Adina Haun
1 day ago
Dangerous time and endless thanks to both of you for bringing honesty and sanity amid the insane propaganda we get here in the US.
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Joh Hoff
1 day ago
Love your work guys!
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Mark Andrzejak
1 day ago
When Putin brought up the leveling of German cities AND the remembrance of Great Britain hooking China on opium is very thoughtful to bring up in today world, especially the desire to have both those countries as allies soon in the coming conflict.
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Random Guy
Random Guy
23 hours ago
Alexander I happen to be one of the indigenous peoples in Canada we know 1st hand of colonization and we signed treaties 1876, never surrendered our lands. We chose to share with people escaping persecution in their own lands and in turn they turned on us by taking a generation of our children, taking our language the same happened in the United States and continues to this day.
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maria ataou
1 day ago
Alex I live in Wales and a lot of people (sheeple) think it’s always Russia Brexit or Trump !! Claus Schwab has a hypnotised flock in Wales ! Cheers alex
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Crimson Maples of Autumn
1 day ago
Alex always whispering, Alexander always screaming. Awesome audio mix combo, you guys 😀

Secular Inu
1 day ago
A historic speech indeed 😊
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IP
1 day ago
1.8 billion watched the speech live
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Gen Ohmni
Gen Ohmni
1 day ago
Nice to see some self determination in action, I remember when that used to be respected in the west.
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Mundo 2024
20 hours ago
Hello Alex and Alexander. You can find the entirety of Putin’s speech at TG Sole 24, an alternative Italian news channel. The translation ( to Italian) is the best I have heard so far.
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Zapper King
7 hours ago (edited)
This guys are the future of objective ‘News’…subscribed and sharing!
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Studebaker
1 day ago
To be alive and see the end of US hegemony before our very eyes! A brilliant experience.
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Stephen Collins
1 day ago
thank you gentlemen . PS – a marvellous programme last night
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KADYROV321
1 day ago
Another very excellent 👏 analysis of current events 👌
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Mario YT
1 day ago
Love your geopolitical talks, top notch knowledge 🙂 Greetings from germany!
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Lisa gamer
1 day ago
Putin’s speech was absolutely brilliant.. I love him , he spoke the truth..
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Tasha Lorm
9 hours ago
I like the fact that when he welcomes the new republic into Russian Federation, he said, “Welcome back to the motherland.”
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Bobi Laforce
1 day ago
Thank you and greetings from Belgrade.
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alberto rodas
1 day ago
Great speech, Brandon cannot do it like this.
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Timothy Chung
1 day ago (edited)
Thank you to you both for bringing topics to the forefront that many would not bring up which is the majority 92% of the world has experienced oppression or colonialism and agreed with Putin but fearfully remain neutral for the mean time. When China enters, this will change for the two superpowers will back them up.
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Jacque line
1 day ago
After of Putin historic speech the NATO rejected the application of Ukraine. 😂
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Peter Burke
Peter Burke
6 hours ago
Wow this is the first time I’ve seen you blokes together.i got overexcited and got a beer..it’s 11 am Sunday morning here in Australia.

Don DP
1 day ago
Putin: annexes new territories
Biden: where is Jackie
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Matt’s Mom
Matt’s Mom
1 day ago
I may not catch you live, but enjoy your commentary greatly.
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Shaun
1 day ago
Iearlgrey just spoke with Eva Bartlett, hopefully you gentlemen can have her on soon too! Also Alexander please continue to mention all relevant books, you’re helping me build my personal library.
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Andrew Brown
1 day ago
Putin’s speech 🎤 was one of those enough is enough speeches (and he ain’t bluffing).
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Carole Young
1 day ago
Thank you for this video update. Fantastic speech from Putin!
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Sandi
22 hours ago
That speech was 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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nelleke nijsse
1 day ago
RUSSIA❤
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Boukhalfa Guem
Boukhalfa Guem
1 day ago
Le discours de Poutine était juste la vérité,
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Susana Curatolo
1 day ago
GA ALEX-C AND ALEX-M– THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU BOTH DO. EXCELLENT PROGRAM. превосходно!
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Luis T
1 day ago
For anyone familiar with Edgar Cayce, the American so-called “sleeping prophet”. He predicted in the 1930s that from Russia would come the hope of the world.
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trader boi
1 day ago
And to think that none of this had to happen if EU/US had honored Minsk! 😱
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Michael Robanke
1 day ago
Spot on as always 👍
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Darlene Schreiber
1 day ago
Been waiting for this!!! Thank you, guys! 🙂
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natalya tabashnykova
1 day ago
Thank goodness there is westerners who still speak truth ! Great channel, thank you.

Jill Klausen
1 day ago
Just watched Scott Ritter on another channel and he’s convinced Ukraine is over as a country. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if that’s what came to pass.
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Cypress Fan
1 day ago
How did this happened? I was told russia was loosing big time 😂
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silver rain
1 day ago
Thank you Alex and Alexander 😊🇵🇭🇨🇦

reno202
1 day ago
Well done Russia 👍
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Mir Ba
1 day ago (edited)
Day which writes the history!
Everything he said, is my opinion.
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Zaps Zapper
1 day ago (edited)
Love it ” They pointed to the monster, and said it was a monster, when it pretends to be a saint and made that monster furious.
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Jerry McG
Jerry McG
1 day ago
Collective West infuriated?
Good.
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Erl Roe
Erl Roe
1 day ago (edited)
Yes we here in New Zealand who have followed the history of this conflict and agree with the summary of the events you have spoken about, I can not say how our political leaders view the the political reality now but my wife who is Chinese admires Putin and I am quite sure as my wife thinks that he out shines their Leader in China

Geoff Jones
1 day ago
Great stuff again. Thanks both have a good weekend ❤

Zurvanlol
20 hours ago
this is truly reminding me of the game civilization. denouncing enemies, pacts in the shadows, sabotage. crazy times! 😅

Danya
1 day ago
Great reportage and analysis 👏 👍

One Eyed Oracle
1 day ago
Bubble is too big to burst, but Putin showed everyone he has found a pin
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Yann Monnier
1 day ago
Same in France , colonialism is just not discussed. History Textbooks barely address those times.
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naturalphilosophy
naturalphilosophy
1 day ago
Best wishes to everyone ☺️🙏❤️🇷🇺
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yakont
1 day ago (edited)
Wow.. Some amazing anti-imperial speeches in the last week. UN speeches from Latin American leaders were equally as 🔥🔥🔥 especially Nicaragua, Columbia and Honduras. Never seen so many furious condemnations of the West
Edit : Add Bolivias Arce to that list!

Kati Avramova
1 day ago
Hmmm… I just listened to the speech. And, as many times with russian literature, music or diplomacy, it was layered. There were hints on hints… and probably hints I didn’t catch… I’m sure pretty much everyone got the one that was designed to add a bit of smile (the rainbow two sentences), but his last two sentences really did kinda scare me. On the surface it was sort of truth is on our side and all Russia is supporting us, but mostly it referred to a) an army supporting project and – more important – to the phrase, first used at Borodin, after Bagration was mortally wounded and again during the Great Patriotic War during the battle for Moscow – “За нами Москва! Умирать всем, но ни шагу назад!” – Moskow is behind us, all can die, but not a step back”. It’s sort of the last… I don’t know, step, argument, whatever – after which there can be no compromise, no retreat. And this, combined with the opening segment – defending all russian people with all possible … … , if necessary, is… well, probably not a thread as such, but most certainly a hard warning. I do hope there are still people in the western diplomacy services that can understand the diplomacy language… because lately I do sincerely doubt it.
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Brandon Sumner
1 day ago
Putin is an inspiration he is spot on
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csk4j
1 day ago
Breathtaking speech!!
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S C Y
1 day ago
When Jeremy Corbin raised the subject of British colonial history to be
taught in schools, that caused a huge uproar and the whole idea was quickly shut
down!
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Dav
Dav
1 day ago
Whether the collective west like the speech or not, deep down they know its the bitter truth and also know they are jealousedly dying with silence adimration, thinking if only we had such a leader.
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Spaceman
23 hours ago
Thanks Duran, I to watched Putin’s speech and he doesn’t sound like a dictator at all compared to western speeches and came across someone looking after his own country. I also read it online here in our media and for the most part he still came out looking pretty good lol, apart from the usual media feedback trying to point out Russia bad! Keep up the excellent work Duran! The best information on this Ukraine/Russian war. 🫡
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Harry Mcghee
1 day ago
God Bless All of Russia Glory and Victory against All Enemies Foreign and Domestic from Scotland
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Vic VKh
1 day ago (edited)
Alexander said “Everybody knows who was really responsible, but they don’t want to say…” – This situation reminds me “You-Know-Who”, “He Who Must Not Be Named”, or “the Dark Lord” in Harry Potter…

Johann
1 day ago
2 Questions! 1. Is there a technical possibility of self-destruction with such pipelines? So it’s built in from the start.
2. How about the candidate “opposition in Russia” that they were the culprit (to harm Putin).
Just one other possibility i’m thinking of.
Thanks for this great talks!! Just found you last weak, and love the analysis!
Greatings firm Germany (born in Russia :D)
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Theresa Adams
1 day ago
Thanks for the update. Glad to see you are feeling better.
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Natasha Dcruz
1 day ago
Epic speech. Putin words were pure gold. God bless Russia. Long live the Russian people 🎉🙏🇷🇺
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kroikye
1 day ago
“Look around and be distressed. Look within and be depressed. Look at Jesus and be at rest.”- Corrie Ten Boom
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Courage Grace & A Kick in the Ass
1 day ago
Where can I find a correct English interpretation of Putin’s speech? I do not have telegram. Does anyone know by chance?
Thank you both for all of the Great Work You Do! ♥️
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G Ptn
G Ptn
1 day ago
Wow! That was some truth bomb from Putin! 😂 👍
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Irena.El.O
1 day ago
Great analysis A&A. Greetings from Aus.
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D T
1 day ago
You guys gave an excellent commentary on Putin’s speech. Well done.

M O’ROURKE
1 day ago
Today is the first time in a long time that your daily videos haven’t been sent to me in notifications
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Alexander Seven
1 day ago
Looks like no more “our western partners”.
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Ade Chapman.
1 day ago
Alexander on Putin offering peace when Alex asks why did he offer. The explanation is a work of Art from Alexander!

SIMPLE SIMON SAYS!
1 day ago
Just swapped all my 11W bulbs for 4W – might be looking at 2.7W bulbs if our Western leaders keep leading us to the edge of economic disaster.
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Foster Kennel
1 day ago
As a sideline on what you’re discussing Virgin airlines has just announced that its male flight attendants can wear dresses While on duty
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DIREWOLFx75
1 day ago
He also makes the offer for negotiations JUST IN CASE someone in Kiev came to their senses. Doesn’t expect it even the slightest, but the unexpected sometimes does happen.

LUX SEND
1 day ago
Love you both 💓💗 many thanks gentlemen

Brian Fleming
1 day ago
Biden pulling Zelensky’s strings? Biden presumably doesn’t even remember who Zelensky is.
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Hans Meulenbroek
1 day ago
Viewed the full speech of Putin. Had not want to miss the end ceremony!

Maria Elmahdy
1 day ago
Hats off what a speech!
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John Bea
1 day ago
Those who are interested, Michael Rossi Poli Sci has the full clip of Putin’s speech with great translation.
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Harry The Horse
1 day ago
Edgar Cayce, famous American clairvoyant, said in 1944:
“In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the communistic, or Bolshevik, no; but freedom, freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallised, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.” (1944)
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Lino Casilli
1 day ago
Grandi, come sempre! Grazie.

Mauny Kaseburg
1 day ago
Today is the 60th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis – I remember it well (ducking under our school desks to protect us from fall out?!?! omg…lolol). Putin just dropped a TRUTH BOMB!!
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