March 18, 2014 – Address of Russian President Vladimir Putin to State Duma deputies,
Federation Council members, heads of Russian regions, Representatives of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, civil society representatives in the Kremlin, and to “The West”:
After the dissolution of bipolarity on the planet, we no longer have stability.
Key international institutions are not getting any stronger; on the contrary,
in many cases, they are sadly degrading. Our western partners, led by the
United States of America, prefer not to be guided by international law in their
practical policies, but by the rule of the gun. They have come to believe in
their exclusivity and exceptionalism, that they can decide the destinies of the
world, that only they can ever be right. They act as they please: here and
there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on
the principle “If you are not with us, you are against us.” To make this
aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international
organisations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore
the UN Security Council and the UN overall.
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Vladimir Putin: Against the equality of good and evil.
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[…] I understand those who came out on Maidan with peaceful slogans against
corruption, inefficient state management and poverty […] However, those who
stood behind the latest events in Ukraine […] resorted to terror, murder and riots. Nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites executed this coup
[…] We understand what is happening; we understand that these actions were
aimed against Ukraine and Russia and against Eurasian integration […] We have
every reason to assume that the infamous policy of containment, led in the
18th, 19th and 20th centuries, continues today. They are constantly trying to
sweep us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we
maintain it and because we call things like they are and do not engage in
hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our western
partners have crossed the line.
[…] It
is at historic turning points such as these that a nation demonstrates its maturity
and strength of spirit. The Russian people showed this maturity and strength
through their united support for their compatriots. Russia’s foreign policy
position on this matter drew its firmness from the will of millions of our
people, our national unity and the support of our country’s main political and
public forces […] Obviously, we will encounter external opposition, but this is
a decision that we need to make for ourselves. Are we ready to consistently
defend our national interests, or will we forever give in, retreat to who knows
where? […] Russia will also have to make a difficult decision now, taking into
account the various domestic and external considerations. What do people here
in Russia think? Here, like in any democratic country, people have different
points of view, but I want to make the point that the absolute majority of our people clearly do support what is happening.
In his 2013 annual Presidential address to the Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin clearly
expressed:
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Today, many nations are revising their moral values and ethical norms, eroding
ethnic traditions and differences between peoples and cultures. Society is now
required not only to recognise everyone’s right to the freedom of
consciousness, political views and privacy, but also to accept without question the equality of good and evil, strange as it seems, concepts that are opposite
in meaning. This destruction of traditional values from above not only leads to
negative consequences for society, but is also essentially anti-democratic,
since it is carried out on the basis of abstract, speculative ideas, contrary
to the will of the majority, which does not accept the changes occurring or the
proposed revision of values. We know that there are more and more people in the
world who support our position on defending traditional values that have made
up the spiritual and moral foundation of civilisation in every nation for
thousands of years: the values of traditional families, real human life,
including religious life, not just material existence but also spirituality,
the values of humanism and global diversity. Of course, this is a conservative position. But speaking in the words of Nikolai Berdyaev, the point of
conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it
prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to
a primitive state.
The President of Russia is leading the global resistance against the Empire of Wall Street and the City of London. He stopped their genocidal depredation in Russia. This is why they hate him, why they attempt to kill him, and why the corporate media cheers thugs like Yulia Tymoshenko and Mikhail Khodorkovsky as if they were heroes of democracy.
For 250 years, the imperial West has waged wars, destroying nation after nation, producing failed states, terrorism, chaos, and millions of casualties. This was the second NATO coup in Ukraine within a decade. The road to Moscow leads through Kyiv. But this time, Vladimir Putin’s Russia was prepared and not alone: After the latest coup in Ukraine, Crimea hastily joined Russia on March 18, 2014, before becoming subject to IMF looting or another ‘civil war’ orchestrated by NATO.
The unification of Crimea and Russia is backed by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). This military and economic alliance was founded in 1996 in response to the globalizing savagery of NATO. Today, the SCO comprises six member states, five observer states, three dialogue partners, and three guest attendees from five non-Western civilizations (Russian, Chinese, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist—four of which are nuclear powers) from the South China Sea to the Baltic Sea and from the Persian Gulf to the Bay of Bengal. In terms of potential, production, infrastructure, economic growth, and prosperity, this is the most successful and promising alliance in recorded history.
This is not an empire; it is an alliance of sovereign states, and their relations are governed by international law. This is the very opposite of the poisonous 'one-world' gospel of the globalists and the 'clash-of-civilizations' ideology of the liberals.
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| Pro-Russian protesters with banner reading “Odessa for referendum!” in the center of Odessa, March 23, 2014. |
China knows very well that it is next in NATO’s line for 'freedom' and 'democracy,' and that without the SCO and Russia’s energy supply, it would fall prey to the Empire. Therefore, China supports Russia, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and a new multipolar world system.
The fascist regime in Kyiv has no legitimacy at all and won’t last. The EU has no means to sanction Russia. The EU is not a superpower; it is not the White Knight and won't rescue anybody. The EU is merely a deeply corrupted, pitiful, and bankrupt US protectorate on the brink of collapse and revolution itself. However, in this latest freedom-and-democracy scam, the EU is once again the colonial aid of the international banking cartel. And once again, they came to loot: Ukraine's gold was flown out to London and New York two weeks ago.
Last week, the EU showed up in Kyiv offering a multi-billion Euro credit conjured by Mr. Draghi out of nothing to support Ukraine. Nobody takes this seriously. The Ukrainians will overthrow Euro-fascism and join the Eurasian Customs Union or split the country. Any sanctions will only strengthen Eurasian integration and increase unemployment and misery in the EU.
The US will continue to play India as the continental dagger against China and Pakistan until an Indian Putin emerges and integrates the country into the SCO. Venezuela has been fighting imperialism since 1998. Without nuclear defense capabilities and strong allies in the region, the people of Venezuela may soon perish and see their oil, gas, and gold stolen once again, degrading them into poverty.
The US will continue to play India as the continental dagger against China and Pakistan until an Indian Putin emerges and integrates the country into the SCO. Venezuela has been fighting imperialism since 1998. Without nuclear defense capabilities and strong allies in the region, the people of Venezuela may soon perish and see their oil, gas, and gold stolen once again, degrading them into poverty.
However, with more than 60% of the world’s population, the momentum toward a new international system and future world trade and economy is intimately related to the SCO and the BRICS. All of them are building up gold reserves and are about to create an independent currency, a BRICS bank, and a BRICS currency reserve pool. The SCO and the BRICS could already destabilize the Euro and the US dollar by dumping them into the exchange markets. The FED and the ECB would not be able to arrange currency swaps with other countries large enough to buy up the dumped currency, causing exchange values to fall. Such an action could be a response to more hostile NATO activities.
If this is indeed the “beginning of the end” for the globalist Empire, it is still only the very beginning of a long and dangerous process: The next big NATO war will be the endgame for the absolute rule of a cynical world hegemon over 99% of the global population. Some empires die peacefully, destroyed by economic ruin, overstretch, and social implosion; others prefer to perish in an orgy of violence.
If this is indeed the “beginning of the end” for the globalist Empire, it is still only the very beginning of a long and dangerous process: The next big NATO war will be the endgame for the absolute rule of a cynical world hegemon over 99% of the global population. Some empires die peacefully, destroyed by economic ruin, overstretch, and social implosion; others prefer to perish in an orgy of violence.