Again the Same Force and Cause Would Destroy All Things Without Distinction

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a lengthy speech on Thursday explaining his justification for invading Ukraine, challenge Russia was left with "no other option" to ensure its national security after decades of deception past the "US instrument" known equally NATO.

Regardless of one'due south sentiments about Putin or his actions, this is history existence made in existent fourth dimension.

Total transcript:

Respected citizens of Russia! Beloved friends!

Today, I consider information technology necessary today to speak over again about the tragic events in Donbas and the key aspects of ensuring the security of Russia.

I volition begin with what I said in my address on Feb 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and about the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from yr to yr. I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure always closer to the Russian border.

It is a fact that over the past 30 years nosotros accept been patiently trying to come to an understanding with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, nosotros invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic brotherhood connected to expand despite our protests and concerns. Its military machine machine is moving and, equally I said, is approaching our very border.

Why is this happening? Where did this insolent manner of talking down from the elevation of their exceptionalism, infallibility and all-permissiveness come up from? What is the caption for this contemptuous and disdainful attitude to our interests and admittedly legitimate demands?

The respond is uncomplicated. Everything is clear and obvious. In the belatedly 1980s, the Soviet Union grew weaker and after bankrupt apart. That experience should serve equally a good lesson for united states of america, because it has shown us that the paralysis of power and will is the first footstep towards complete degradation and oblivion. Nosotros lost confidence for only one moment, simply it was enough to disrupt the residual of forces in the earth.

As a event, the sometime treaties and agreements are no longer constructive. Entreaties and requests do not assist. Annihilation that does not suit the dominant country, the powers that be, is denounced as archaic, obsolete and useless. At the aforementioned fourth dimension, everything it regards as useful is presented as the ultimate truth and forced on others regardless of the cost, abusively and by whatever means available. Those who refuse to comply are subjected to strong-arm tactics.

What I am saying now does non concerns but Russia, and Russia is not the only country that is worried near this. This has to practice with the entire organisation of international relations, and sometimes even United states of america allies. The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a redivision of the world, and the norms of international law that developed by that time – and the most important of them, the fundamental norms that were adopted following WWII and largely formalised its outcome – came in the manner of those who declared themselves the winners of the Cold War.

Of form, practice, international relations and the rules regulating them had to have into account the changes that took place in the world and in the residuum of forces. All the same, this should have been washed professionally, smoothly, patiently, and with due regard and respect for the interests of all states and one'due south own responsibility. Instead, we saw a state of euphoria created by the feeling of accented superiority, a kind of modern authoritarianism, coupled with the low cultural standards and airs of those who formulated and pushed through decisions that suited only themselves. The situation took a different plow.

In that location are many examples of this. Showtime a bloody military machine operation was waged against Belgrade, without the United nations Security Council'due south sanction but with combat shipping and missiles used in the heart of Europe. The bombing of peaceful cities and vital infrastructure went on for several weeks. I accept to think these facts, because some Western colleagues prefer to forget them, and when we mentioned the event, they prefer to avert speaking about international police force, instead emphasising the circumstances which they interpret as they recall necessary.

Then came the turn of Republic of iraq, Libya and Syrian arab republic. The illegal apply of armed forces power confronting Libya and the baloney of all the Un Security Council decisions on Libya ruined the land, created a huge seat of international terrorism, and pushed the country towards a humanitarian catastrophe, into the vortex of a civil war, which has continued there for years. The tragedy, which was created for hundreds of thousands and fifty-fifty millions of people not only in Libya just in the whole region, has led to a large-scale exodus from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe.

A like fate was also prepared for Syria. The gainsay operations conducted by the Western coalition in that state without the Syrian government'due south approval or United nations Security Council'southward sanction can merely be defined as aggression and intervention.

Merely the example that stands autonomously from the above events is, of course, the invasion of Iraq without any legal grounds. They used the pretext of allegedly reliable information available in the The states nigh the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Republic of iraq. To evidence that accusation, the US Secretary of State held up a vial with white power, publicly, for the whole globe to run into, assuring the international community that information technology was a chemical warfare agent created in Iraq. It later turned out that all of that was a fake and a sham, and that Iraq did not have whatsoever chemical weapons. Incredible and shocking simply truthful. We witnessed lies made at the highest state level and voiced from the loftier UN rostrum. As a result we see a tremendous loss in human life, damage, devastation, and a colossal upsurge of terrorism.

Overall, information technology appears that nearly everywhere, in many regions of the world where the United states brought its law and guild, this created encarmine, non-healing wounds and the curse of international terrorism and extremism. I have only mentioned the virtually glaring but far from simply examples of condone for international law.

This array includes promises not to expand NATO eastwards even by an inch. To reiterate: they have deceived us, or, to put it merely, they have played the states. Sure, one often hears that politics is a dirty business organization. Information technology could be, but it shouldn't be as dirty every bit it is now, non to such an extent. This blazon of con-artist behaviour is contrary not only to the principles of international relations but also and above all to the generally accustomed norms of morality and ethics. Where is justice and truth here? Merely lies and hypocrisy all around.

Incidentally, The states politicians, political scientists and journalists write and say that a veritable "empire of lies" has been created inside the U.s. in recent years. It is hard to disagree with this – it is really then. But ane should not be modest near it: the United States is however a dandy country and a system-forming ability. All its satellites not simply humbly and obediently say yes to and parrot information technology at the slightest pretext merely also imitate its behaviour and enthusiastically take the rules information technology is offer them. Therefore, one can say with good reason and confidence that the whole so-called Western bloc formed past the Usa in its ain image and likeness is, in its entirety, the very same "empire of lies."

As for our state, after the disintegration of the USSR, given the entire unprecedented openness of the new, modern Russia, its readiness to piece of work honestly with the United states and other Western partners, and its practically unilateral disarmament, they immediately tried to put the last squeeze on us, finish us off, and utterly destroy us. This is how information technology was in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-chosen collective Westward was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia. What victims, what losses we had to sustain and what trials we had to go through at that fourth dimension earlier we broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus! Nosotros remember this and will never forget.

Properly speaking, the attempts to use us in their own interests never ceased until quite recently: they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their faux values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are direct leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to human being nature. This is not going to happen. No one has always succeeded in doing this, nor volition they succeed now.

Despite all that, in Dec 2021, we fabricated nevertheless some other attempt to attain agreement with the U.s.a. and its allies on the principles of European security and NATO's non-expansion. Our efforts were in vain. The The states has not inverse its position. It does not believe it necessary to agree with Russian federation on a matter that is critical for u.s.. The U.s. is pursuing its own objectives, while neglecting our interests.

Of course, this state of affairs begs a question: what next, what are we to look? If history is any guide, we know that in 1940 and early 1941 the Soviet Union went to great lengths to forbid state of war or at to the lowest degree delay its outbreak. To this end, the USSR sought non to provoke the potential assaulter until the very end by refraining or postponing the nearly urgent and obvious preparations it had to brand to defend itself from an imminent attack. When information technology finally acted, it was besides belatedly.

As a result, the country was not prepared to counter the invasion by Nazi Germany, which attacked our Motherland on June 22, 1941, without declaring war. The country stopped the enemy and went on to defeat it, merely this came at a tremendous cost. The attempt to appease the aggressor alee of the Great Patriotic War proved to be a fault which came at a high cost for our people. In the showtime months after the hostilities broke out, we lost vast territories of strategic importance, equally well as millions of lives. We volition not make this mistake the second time. We have no right to do so.

Those who aspire to global dominance have publicly designated Russia every bit their enemy. They did and so with impunity. Brand no error, they had no reason to act this mode. Information technology is true that they accept considerable fiscal, scientific, technological, and military machine capabilities. We are enlightened of this and have an objective view of the economical threats we accept been hearing, just every bit our ability to counter this brash and never-ending blackmail. Let me reiterate that we take no illusions in this regard and are extremely realistic in our assessments.

As for military affairs, even subsequently the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable function of its capabilities, today's Russia remains 1 of the near powerful nuclear states. Moreover, information technology has a certain advantage in several cutting-edge weapons. In this context, in that location should be no doubt for anyone that any potential assailant will face defeat and ominous consequences should information technology directly attack our country.

At the same time, technology, including in the defence force sector, is changing apace. One mean solar day in that location is i leader, and tomorrow some other, but a military presence in territories adjoining on Russia, if nosotros permit it to become ahead, volition stay for decades to come up or maybe forever, creating an e'er mounting and totally unacceptable threat for Russia.

Even now, with NATO's eastward expansion the situation for Russia has been becoming worse and more dangerous by the year. Moreover, these past days NATO leadership has been blunt in its statements that they demand to advance and step up efforts to bring the alliance'due south infrastructure closer to Russia'due south borders. In other words, they have been toughening their position. We cannot stay idle and passively observe these developments. This would be an absolutely irresponsible thing to do for us.

Any further expansion of the North Atlantic alliance's infrastructure or the ongoing efforts to gain a military foothold of the Ukrainian territory are unacceptable for us. Of form, the question is non most NATO itself. Information technology just serves as a tool of United states of america foreign policy. The problem is that in territories adjacent to Russia, which I have to note is our historical land, a hostile "anti-Russia" is taking shape. Fully controlled from the outside, information technology is doing everything to attract NATO armed forces and obtain cutting-border weapons.

For the Usa and its allies, it is a policy of containing Russia, with obvious geopolitical dividends. For our country, it is a affair of life and decease, a matter of our historical hereafter as a nation. This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact. It is non only a very real threat to our interests but to the very being of our land and to its sovereignty. Information technology is the red line which we accept spoken almost on numerous occasions. They have crossed information technology.

This brings me to the situation in Donbas. We can see that the forces that staged the coup in Ukraine in 2014 accept seized power, are keeping information technology with the help of ornamental ballot procedures and have abandoned the path of a peaceful conflict settlement. For eight years, for eight endless years we have been doing everything possible to settle the state of affairs by peaceful political means. Everything was in vain.

Equally I said in my previous address, yous cannot await without pity at what is happening there. It became incommunicable to tolerate it. We had to stop that atrocity, that genocide of the millions of people who live there and who pinned their hopes on Russia, on all of us. Information technology is their aspirations, the feelings and hurting of these people that were the primary motivating force behind our determination to recognize the independence of the Donbas people's republics.

I would like to additionally emphasize the following. Focused on their own goals, the leading NATO countries are supporting the far-right nationalists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine, those who will never forgive the people of Crimea and Sevastopol for freely making a selection to reunite with Russia.

They volition undoubtedly try to bring war to Crimea just equally they have done in Donbas, to kill innocent people just as members of the punitive units of Ukrainian nationalists and Hitler's accomplices did during the Smashing Patriotic State of war. They have too openly laid claim to several other Russian regions.

If we wait at the sequence of events and the incoming reports, the showdown between Russian federation and these forces cannot be avoided. Information technology is but a thing of time. They are getting ready and waiting for the right moment. Moreover, they went every bit far as aspire to acquire nuclear weapons. We will not permit this happen.

I take already said that Russia accepted the new geopolitical reality after the dissolution of the USSR. Nosotros accept been treating all new mail service-Soviet states with respect and will proceed to act this way. Nosotros respect and will respect their sovereignty, as proven by the aid we provided to Kazakhstan when information technology faced tragic events and a challenge in terms of its statehood and integrity. However, Russia cannot feel safe, develop, and exist while facing a permanent threat from the territory of today's Ukraine.

Let me remind yous that in 2000–2005 nosotros used our military machine to push back against terrorists in the Caucasus and stood up for the integrity of our land. We preserved Russia. In 2014, nosotros supported the people of Crimea and Sevastopol. In 2015, we used our Military machine to create a reliable shield that prevented terrorists from Syria from penetrating Russia. This was a matter of defending ourselves. Nosotros had no other option.

The same is happening today. They did not go out u.s. whatever other choice for defending Russia and our people, other than the one we are forced to utilise today. In these circumstances, we accept to accept bold and firsthand action. The people'due south republics of Donbas have asked Russia for assistance.

In this context, in accordance with Article 51 (Affiliate Vii) of the UN Lease, with permission of Russia's Federation Council, and in execution of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic, ratified past the Federal Assembly on Feb 22, I made a decision to behave out a special military performance.

The purpose of this performance is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev authorities. To this stop, we will seek to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian federation.

Information technology is non our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. Nosotros exercise not intend to impose anything on anyone by force. At the same time, nosotros have been hearing an increasing number of statements coming from the Westward that at that place is no demand whatsoever more to abide by the documents setting forth the outcomes of World War 2, as signed by the totalitarian Soviet regime. How tin can we answer to that?

The outcomes of World War II and the sacrifices our people had to make to defeat Nazism are sacred. This does not contradict the loftier values of human rights and freedoms in the reality that emerged over the post-state of war decades. This does not mean that nations cannot enjoy the right to self-determination, which is enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter.

Allow me remind you that the people living in territories which are part of today'south Ukraine were not asked how they want to build their lives when the USSR was created or after Earth War Ii. Freedom guides our policy, the freedom to cull independently our future and the futurity of our children. Nosotros believe that all the peoples living in today's Ukraine, anyone who desire to practise this, must be able to enjoy this right to brand a free selection.

In this context I would like to address the citizens of Ukraine. In 2014, Russia was obliged to protect the people of Crimea and Sevastopol from those who y'all yourself call "nats." The people of Crimea and Sevastopol made their pick in favour of beingness with their historical homeland, Russia, and we supported their choice. Every bit I said, nosotros could non deed otherwise.

The current events have zip to do with a desire to infringe on the interests of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. They are connected with the defending Russia from those who accept taken Ukraine hostage and are trying to employ it confronting our country and our people.

I reiterate: we are acting to defend ourselves from the threats created for u.s. and from a worse peril than what is happening now. I am asking you, however hard this may be, to understand this and to piece of work together with u.s.a. so every bit to plough this tragic folio as soon every bit possible and to motion forrad together, without allowing anyone to interfere in our affairs and our relations just developing them independently, then as to create favourable weather for overcoming all these bug and to strengthen us from inside as a single whole, despite the existence of state borders. I believe in this, in our mutual futurity.

I would also like to address the military machine personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Comrade officers,

Your fathers, grandfathers and bang-up-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and did non defend our common Motherland to let today'south neo-Nazis to seize ability in Ukraine. You swore the oath of fidelity to the Ukrainian people and not to the junta, the people's adversary which is plundering Ukraine and humiliating the Ukrainian people.

I urge you to refuse to carry out their criminal orders. I urge you to immediately lay downwards arms and get home. I will explain what this means: the military personnel of the Ukrainian regular army who practice this will be able to freely leave the zone of hostilities and return to their families.

I want to emphasize again that all responsibility for the possible bloodshed will lie fully and wholly with the ruling Ukrainian regime.

I would at present like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside. No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russian federation will answer immediately, and the consequences will exist such every bit you have never seen in your entire history. No matter how the events unfold, nosotros are ready. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words volition be heard.

Citizens of Russia,

The culture and values, experience and traditions of our ancestors invariably provided a powerful underpinning for the wellbeing and the very existence of entire states and nations, their success and viability. Of course, this directly depends on the ability to quickly suit to constant change, maintain social cohesion, and readiness to consolidate and summon all the available forces in lodge to motion forward.

We always demand to be stiff, simply this force can take on different forms. The "empire of lies," which I mentioned in the beginning of my speech, proceeds in its policy primarily from crude, direct force. This is when our saying on beingness "all brawn and no brains" applies.

Nosotros all know that having justice and truth on our side is what makes us truly strong. If this is the instance, it would exist hard to disagree with the fact that it is our force and our readiness to fight that are the bedrock of independence and sovereignty and provide the necessary foundation for edifice a reliable time to come for your home, your family, and your Motherland.

Dear compatriots,

I am sure that devoted soldiers and officers of Russia'south Military machine will perform their duty with professionalism and courage. I have no doubt that the government institutions at all levels and specialists will work effectively to guarantee the stability of our economy, fiscal system and social wellbeing, and the same applies to corporate executives and the unabridged business organization customs. I promise that all parliamentary parties and civil society accept a consolidated, patriotic position.

At the cease of the day, the future of Russia is in the hands of its multi-ethnic people, equally has always been the example in our history. This means that the decisions that I made will be executed, that nosotros volition achieve the goals we accept prepare, and reliably guarantee the security of our Motherland.

I believe in your support and the invincible forcefulness rooted in the love for our Fatherland.

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