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@DmitryOpines - Dmitry Grozoubinski
Alright! The feed for Putin's State of the Nation address has gone live. Speech due to start nowish but it's his country and he'll be late if he wants to. Currently showing the whitest audience since the Republic National Convention. Will live tweet 👇. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjQkaKMoTE
@DmitryOpines - Dmitry Grozoubinski
Mixed news for Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Minister of Defense who didn't score a front row seat but is nowhere near a window and thus presumably safe from the world's most deserved defenestration until at least the afterparty.
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Announcer just asked everyone to switch off their mobile phones, and if there's one speech you don't want your Britney Spear's 'Toxic' ringtone going off in it's this one...
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5 minutes late to start the speech, a year late to take Kyiv. Bad form, Vova.
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He's announced like he's entering the octagon to fight Hulk Hogan. "Theeeee Presideeeeent of the Russsiiiiaaan Federaaaation!"
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Admits it's a difficult time, but immediately describes it as a pivotal, cardinal time in the world. "On each of us lies a huge responsibility." Mostly you though, dude.
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Ok, straight into the special operation. Describes the mission as both a defense of the Donbas and a pre-emptive strike against a Nazi regime. Now waxing lyrical about how the Donbas held out against Ukraine, believing Russia would rescue it. Christ.
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Ahaha. "We did everything possible to resolve this problem peacefully." Currently claiming that Western governments were just buying time and pretending to want peace.
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"Ukrainian Neonazis!" DRINK!!
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"Even before the launch of the special operation, the Ukrainian government was in negotiations with the West to acquire anti-air and other weapons" Yeah, wonder why dude.
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Oh my god, he just mentioned Biolabs in Ukraine and claimed Ukraine was trying to acquire nuclear weapons. This is 4chan level conspiracy stuff in a Presidential address.
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Ahaha, there is so much projection in this speech you can see it in space. "The West is used to doing whatever it wants, regardless of what other countries think, and used to lying to its own people."
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Now we're onto the expansion of NATO and the deployment of anti-missile systems. And "hundreds of US bases all over the world." Is he getting this speech from internet memes?
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He claims that the rejection of their proposals in December 2021 proved that there was going to be a massive attack on the Donbas, and waxing lyrical about 2015 fighting there. Thankfully, nothing he's done since then has caused any damage to that region.
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"I want to repeat this, 'it is they who started the war, and we are using force, and expending force, to end it." Good line, shame it's fucking insane.
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"We are protecting the lives of people, but the West's goal is global domination." "They have spent $150bn" which he's now comparing to global aid spending by the G7 of $60bn. Because Uganda really needs HIMARS.
@DmitryOpines - Dmitry Grozoubinski
The audience looks bored as fuck. You can get this shit on Solovyov or RT every day. Also he's clearing his throat and coughing a lot, but honestly he looks reasonably good and his voice is strong so I don't buy into the 'about to die' theories.
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What's interesting about this is that this is supposed to be a "State of the Nation" speech, it's like 12 minutes in and he's basically not mentioned Russia once. It's all just grievance about the West. Currently doing 20th century greatest hits. Babbling about Austria-Hungary.
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Ahahaha, he just said the "Edelweiss" thing. Background - Ukraine renamed one of its mountain divisions Edelweiss, which was the name of a Nazi Mountain Unit... but also the name of everyone's mountain everything because it's an iconic mountain flower.
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"It's remarkable the West doesn't notice that the Ukrainians are Nazis because they don't care as long as they're fighting us." It's so hard to explain to these people how much the West would prefer to never think about them at all.
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"We are not at war with Ukraine. They have become hostages to the Kyiv regime and their Western Backers." Reminder: Kyiv government has an approval rating of like a billion %.
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Currently talking about a regime stripping a country of its natural resources for its own enrichment, which again is projection so bright it will burn your corneas off if you look right at it.
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"The more long ranged weaponry Ukraine is supplied with, the further we will have to push the danger from our borders." Good luck with that, champ.
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He's being very vague about what they actually plan to do. There's a pattern to this speech whereby he identifies a threat and then says, "We will take appropriate measures."
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Now talking about informational warfare. Claims the youth are being targeted. Handwrings over the Church, which absolutely no one in Russia attends services of by the way.
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We're onto culture war stuff. The West is degrading the family. Paedophilia shout out. Gay marriage is in the bible etc. "In Russia, our policy has always been that adults can live how they like... BUT" "Anglican church is looking to explore the idea of a gender neutral god"
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"We are obliged to defend our children against degradation!"
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We are now talking about national traitors. Anyone from the Soviet Union has heard this kind of rhetoric before. "We won't do what the West does and engage in witch hunts." Fucking hilarious when you're dragged off in handcuffs for holding a protest sign.
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"I think we're all proud that an absolute majority support our special operation. In this support is exemplified by the patriotism that defines our country and the indivisibility of our fate from that of the nation."