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Zelensky's illegitimacy, NATO 'bulls**t' & Russia's 'asymmetric' response: Key takeaways from Putin's foreign press briefing


RT
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:47 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with heads of international news agencies in St. Petersburg, June 6, 2024
© Valentina Pevtsova / SputnikRussian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with heads of international news agencies in St. Petersburg, June 6, 2024
The Russian president has discussed how the Ukraine conflict began, and how it could end, with foreign media agencies

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered an overview of how he sees the roots of the Ukraine conflict roots and where the crisis may be headed. He also spoke about the prospects of peace and speculation about a full-fledged war with NATO.

Putin spent over three hours answering a wide range of questions from representatives of international news agencies on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Wednesday.
1 Zelensky's questionable legitimacy

Putin argued that the crisis stems from a US-backed coup that overthrew Kiev's elected government in 2014.
"Everyone believes that Russia started the war in Ukraine. But no one - I want to emphasize this - no one in the West, in Europe, wants to remember how this tragedy began. It began with a coup in Ukraine - an unconstitutional coup d'etat."
Now Vladimir Zelensky's legitimacy has also come under question, as according to Ukrainian laws his powers were supposed to be transferred to the country's parliament after his term as president ended last month,

Putin argued. He suggested that Western backers may "tolerate" and keep Zelensky around long enough to force through more unpopular policies - like lowering the conscription age all the way down to 18 - then oust him, possibly as early as next spring. "They have several candidates to replace him."

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Heart - Black

Nobody in US has Ukraine's interests at heart - Putin


RT
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:50 UTC
FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky (R) speaks at the announcement of the G7 nations' joint declaration for the support of Ukraine as US President Joe Biden
© Sean Gallup / Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky (R) speaks at the announcement of the G7 nations' joint declaration for the support of Ukraine as US President Joe Biden
The US only cares about its own grandeur and is involved in the Ukraine crisis in order to fulfil its global ambitions, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the leaders of global media agencies ahead of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Wednesday.

Washington has provided tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Kiev since the beginning of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.

When asked about a potential shift in US policy towards Russia, Putin said that it is largely dependent on Washington itself and its perception of reality. America is currently obsessed with globalist ambitions that are "destroying the US from within," the president said.

Comment:
On the one hand:
'A future administration could reverse this destructive trend by focusing on "strengthening the US from within, strengthening its economy and finances, and building up normal relations with the world,"'
"Could reverse", but more likely: "Nothing will change after US elections - Putin"

Another observation though in relation to Gaza: Supporting genocide to halt multipolarity. Similarly the NATO/EU expansion can be seen to have the same goal, Ukraine has heartlessly been used to fight a promoter of Multipolarity.

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Chess

Georgia's 'Foreign Agent' bill becomes law


RFE/RL
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:18 UTC
Georgian Parliament
Georgian Parliament overrides veto of 'Foreign Agent' law
Georgia's divisive "foreign agent" piece of legislation has become law despite weeks of mass protests and warnings from the United States and the European Union that the move jeopardizes the Caucasus country's path toward North-Atlantic integration.

The law was published in Georgia's Legislative Gazette on June 3 shortly after being signed by parliament speaker Shalva Papuashvil.

Prior to that, Georgia's pro-Western President President Salome Zurabishvili had refused to endorse the measure after it was returned to her. On May 28, a parliamentary vote overrode her veto of the bill from May 18.

According to Georgia's constitution, if the president doesn't endorse the law after an override by lawmakers, the parliament speaker then has the right to promulgate it.

Comment: Who might have organized all those protests against what is essentially perfectly reasonable legislation? Hmmm... could it be... foreign agent NGOs?

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Vader

Kremlin calls US 'an enemy' for first time


RT
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 01:24 UTC
Peskov
© NDTVFILE: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
Dmitry Peskov previously referred to Washington and its allies as "unfriendly states" or "opponents".

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred to the United States as an "enemy" while speaking to reporters on Tuesday, in an apparent hardening of rhetoric between the two countries.

It remains unclear if the use of the word signals an official policy change, as the spokesman had previously argued that only President Vladimir Putin can make such decisions.

Washington's refusal to allow former US marine, UN weapons inspector and RT contributor Scott Ritter to travel to St. Petersburg was "the latest manifestation of the rabid campaign to prevent US citizens from interacting with the Russian Federation" - which would only be "understandable" if it was somehow related to his former intelligence status, Peskov told journalists on Tuesday

"We are now an enemy country for them - much like they are for us," Peskov said, while acknowledging that restrictions applying to former intelligence officers, especially on travel "to a hostile country," are common across the world.

The Kremlin previously called the United States and other Western countries that have supported and armed Ukraine and imposed sanctions on Moscow as "unfriendly states" or "opponents."

The shift in language follows Washington's decision to let Kiev use American-supplied weapons against targets inside Russia, beyond what the US considers Ukrainian territory.

Comment: US has been upgraded to 'Enemy', a Biden administration achievement.

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Key

US holds key to stopping Ukraine conflict - Putin


RT
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 21:42 UTC
the package
© Christoph Soeder/Getty ImagesArtillery rounds bound for Ukraine are loaded on a US cargo plane last year in Rzeszow, Poland.
The fighting would end within three months if Washington quits providing weapons to Kiev, the Russian president has claimed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has argued that Washington has the power to end the bloodshed in Ukraine by cutting off the weapons shipments that are prolonging the conflict.

Speaking with heads of international news agencies on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin revealed that he received a letter from US President Joe Biden regarding the Ukraine crisis. He said he replied:
"If you want to stop the hostilities in Ukraine, stop supplying the weapons. Then, in two to three months, everything will be over."
Putin made his comments as escalating Western military aid to Ukraine threatens to widen the conflict. US lawmakers approved an additional $61 billion in aid to Kiev in April, after Biden's administration had burned through $113 billion in previously passed spending bills. Putin suggested that as the US and its allies give Kiev long-range munitions targeting Russian territory, Moscow could respond by supplying similar weaponry to foreign parties that might use them to strike Ukraine's backers.

Comment: Important words from Putin...will, can, could, should... Will Washington heed? It's just the future of the world...

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Nothing will change after US elections - Putin


RT
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:45 UTC
Putin
© Alexander Karakov/SputnikPresident of Russia Vladimir Putin
Russia's relations with Washington will not be impacted, no matter who is elected president.

The upcoming presidential contest in the US will not fundamentally alter Russian-American relations, President Vladimir Putin has said.

Putin spoke with heads of international news agencies on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

"We believe no serious changes will happen after the elections," the Russian leader explained, in response to a question from Reuters. Putin reminded reporters that he had already commented on this issue, describing the incumbent US president Joe Biden as "an old-school politician" and "more predictable" than his predecessor and challenger Donald Trump.

"Everyone took my statement about Biden as some kind of joke at his expense," Putin noted, adding that the American president's reaction - to attack and insult the Russian leader - just proved his point that Biden was predictable.

Putin pointed out that Russia "never had any special relations" with Trump, whom the Democrats in 2016 accused of being a kind of Russian agent. The Republican president had in fact introduced "massive sanctions" against Russia and exited the INF treaty.
"The current administration is making one mistake after another. By prosecuting Trump in court, however, the Americans are burning themselves up from the inside, their state, their political system. They are burning it down to the ground."

Comment: Russia has plans to attack NATO? Putin says 'Bulls**t!'
The idea that Moscow has some kind of plan to attack NATO is a stupid attempt to maintain the West's global hegemony by fear, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

Putin was asked about NATO's preparations to defend from a Russian "invasion" at the meeting with the heads of the world's major news agencies on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). Putin said:
"Look, someone has imagined that Russia wants to attack NATO. Have you gone completely insane? Are you as thick as this table? Who came up with this nonsense, this bulls**t?"
The Russian president suggested that the "bulls**t" was in the service of deceiving the people at home in the West, urging them to arm themselves and send more weapons to Ukraine.
"Why is this being done, really? To maintain their own position of greatness, that's why. There's nothing to these scary stories, intended for the townsfolk in Germany and France and elsewhere in Europe. In Ukraine, we're just protecting ourselves.

"Don't make up things and then form opinions about Russia on the basis of them. You only hurt yourselves this way."
During the session, which lasted more than three hours, Putin repeatedly addressed the root causes of Russia's intervention in Ukraine, from the 2014 US-backed coup to the atrocities of the Kiev government in the Donbass and the failed Minsk peace process that Western leaders have admitted to being a sham.
"The US hasn't poured billions of dollars in cash, weapons, ammunition and equipment into Ukraine because it loves Ukrainians, but because of the belief that this will further American "greatness and global leadership.
"Nobody in the US cares about Ukraine's interests. While Moscow has no intention of 'invading' Europe, it will consider retaliating against the US and its allies for providing Kiev with long-range missiles by supplying adversaries of the West with similar weapons in 'sensitive' areas."


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Briefcase

Law firm that employed Hunter Biden devised secret 58-page plan to help Burisma dodge criminal probe

Steven Richards, John Solomon
Just the News
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 10:41 UTC
J/H/B
© Visar Kryeziu/Sergei Supinsky/ADP/Getty Images/Visar Kryeziu/Ap/KJNJoe and Hunter Biden • Burisma facility
Hunter Biden helped the U.S. law firm that employed him secure a lucrative retainer with Burisma Holdings a decade ago, and its lawyers proceeded to draft a 58-page plan to try to extricate the controversial energy company from an ongoing criminal investigation in Ukraine that relied heavily on trying to influence his father's administration in Washington, according to evidence gathered by the FBI.

The "legal defense plan" memo by Boies Schiller & Flexner, obtained by Just the News, was part of a collection of 3.39 million pages of evidence that federal agents seized during the 2016 election as part of a securities fraud investigation that targeted some of Hunter Biden's business partners. Those records are now in the hands of Congress.

The June 2014 document was not on the Hunter Biden laptop that the FBI seized in 2019, but was in the possession of Hunter Biden's closest business associate, Devon Archer, who is now cooperating with the House GOP impeachment probe of President Joe Biden.

It provides the most direct and detailed window into how Hunter Biden, his business partners and his fellow lawyers at the Boies Schiller & Flexner law firm intended to build pressure in Washington - from the State Department to Congress - to get Ukrainians to drop their criminal pursuit of Burisma after Hunter Biden and Archer were hired to its board of directors.

At the time, Joe Biden was the sitting vice president and was put in charge by President Barack Obama of US-Ukraine policy.

Comment: The 'successes' of Biden and Son guarantee Ukraine's continuing demise.

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Western troops in Ukraine 'have no immunity' - Kremlin


RT
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:40 UTC
Peskov
© Getty ImagesKremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov
Foreign military personnel in the country will be considered legitimate targets, Moscow says.

Any foreign military personnel sent to Ukraine will be legitimate targets for Russian strikes, whether they are from France or anywhere else, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.

Peskov was asked about a report in the Washington Post, published on Monday, alleging:
"Russian President Vladimir Putin might see hitting French troops, if Russian forces can locate them... as a chance to humiliate [French President Emmanuel] Macron."
The remark was an apparent reference to a French plan to send military instructors to Ukraine. Macron has repeatedly claimed he does not rule out the possibility of NATO members sending troops to Ukraine.

Peskov told reporters:
"The fact is that any instructors who are involved in training the military of the Ukrainian regime do not have any immunity. And it doesn't matter whether they are French or not."

Comment: War by remote design offers no resolution.

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MIB

Kiev regime tortured US journalist Gonzalo Lira to death - Putin


RT
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:03 UTC
gonzalo lira
© Screenshot: Youtube / Gonzalo Lira
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called out the US government for neglecting to even ask questions after an American journalist was tortured to death in a Ukrainian jail earlier this year.

Speaking at a press briefing on Wednesday in St Petersburg, Putin was asked whether Russian officials would help facilitate an investigation of a French journalist who was reportedly killed last month in a missile strike west of Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine). He offered to help enable the probe, but he also contrasted the response to the Frenchman's death to how the administration of US President Joe Biden reacted when American blogger Gonzalo Lira died in Ukraine earlier this year.

"They tortured an American journalist to death in a Ukrainian prison, and the US is not even asking what happened to him," Putin said. "No one went to the trouble of asking what actually happened."
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Red Pill

Slovak PM points to Western-backed forces behind assassination attempt


RT
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:52 UTC
Robert Fico
© FacebookSlovak Prime Minister Robert Fico issues a video statement on Wednesday
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has argued that the assassination attempt that nearly killed him last month emanated from foreign-backed politicians who refuse to accept foreign policies that prioritize Bratislava's interests over the agendas of major Western powers.

Fico posted a video statement on Wednesday, marking his first public appearance since the May 15 shooting in which he was critically wounded. He credited medical workers with saving his life and said he expects to resume at least some of his work duties by around the end of this month or in early July.

The PM condemned efforts to downplay the assassination attempt and blame it entirely on a deranged gunman. "I forgive him and let him sort out what he did and why he did it, in his own head," Fico said. "In the end, it is evident that he was only a messenger of evil and political hatred, which the politically unsuccessful and frustrated opposition developed in Slovakia to unmanageable proportions."
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