Putin Recognizes Eastern Ukrainian Independence, Sends the Troops In
Czar Vladimir I has given an epic speech and signed papers officially recognizing Donetsk and Luhansk as independent republics.
And he’s sent the troops in.
I don’t usually say this, but it’s happening.
Putin’s speech was historic in a way that nothing has been in my lifetime.
It’s really worth watching the whole thing.
It’s all just my talking points, actually.
He went through the entire history of the Ukraine, and the fact that big parts of it have always been Russia. He also said parts of it should belong to Poland and Germany, and that it isn’t a real country.
Here are some bullet points:
- It’s not a real country now, it is completely run by foreign powers. It is not controlled by the Ukrainian people, but by foreign powers, and also by oligarchs chosen by foreign powers. Both groups have robbed the people of the country for their own purposes, primarily using the “country” as a battering ram against Russia.
- Stalin and Khrushchev gave Russian territory to the Ukraine for political administration reasons that were practical at the time but irrelevant to geopolitics because it was all the USSR. (He didn’t really make any bones about the fact that he thinks the USSR was an economic and administrative disaster.)
- The Ukraine is a “colony with a puppet government.”
- The Ukraine government is now saying that they are going to start building nuclear weapons, an ability that they have because they were a part of the Soviet Union.
- NATO made promises in 1992 that they would not expand NATO eastward, and yet they started doing so immediately.
- He asked Bill Clinton if Russia could join NATO in 2000, and Clinton blew him off and chuckled at him, proving that the plan was always to break apart Russia even further via war methods. (He said this is the first time he’s revealed he had this conversation with Clinton.)
- He says making an enemy out of Russia just proves that the people running Washington are megalomaniacal, and have no desire for peace, and that they’ve been trying to overthrow Russia since the end of the Cold War.
- He laid out the details of the “Maidan” coup, which was not a “revolution,” but a violent overthrow of an elected government by foreign powers.
- He explained that the Ukraine is not a “democracy” and that Russian-speakers are being physically attacked, economically disenfranchised, and banned from speaking their own language not just at schools but also in shops and other public places. He says that the Ukrainians didn’t harbor this kind of hatred before, it was a “brotherly” nation, and that the West has trumped up hatred via their control of the Ukrainian government, and their connection to the oligarchs.
- He said that like every country, Russia has a right to protect its interests, and this is exactly what they plan to do.
- The West is not offering a peaceful solution. They pretend like they are, but then refuse any form of concession, and just start making more threats.
- Finally: Russia will officially recognize the independence of the two declared breakaway republics in the Donbass.
After the speech, he went directly to a signing ceremony, signing orders officially recognizing the breakaway republics, just as he did with Crimea in 2014.
NOW – Putin: Russia recognizes the independence of breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/K3dSo0e0L0
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 21, 2022
Then, he went ahead and ordered the Russian military to enter the Donbass as peacekeepers, ensuring the security of the territories.
#Ukraine: Footage of #Russia’s military “peacekeepers” being bussed in to the Donbas across the border. This is essentially the beginning of the invasion. pic.twitter.com/7pUgkJrJzQ
— Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan) February 21, 2022
BREAKING: Al Jazeera says it has obtained footage of Russian military vehicles entering Donetsk in eastern Ukraine pic.twitter.com/3OvuDV9Pzp
— BNO News (@BNONews) February 22, 2022
A @Reuters witness saw tanks and other military hardware on the outskirts of Donetsk, the capital of one of two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine, after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized them as independent https://t.co/CfsYwia0bM pic.twitter.com/60YcnUyGvs
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 22, 2022
Official soundtrack of troops crossing the border:
This was all brilliant and all obvious: the West was claiming for months that Putin had a plan to invade the Ukraine and take over the entire country, but there was really no reason for him to want to do that. What he wanted to do was to show that Russia will not be pushed around, and to liberate the terrorized territories in the East.
I think that he should have done this in 2014, at the same time he took Crimea, and that 2022 should be the year he liberates Kharkiv to Odessa.
But hey – I’m not a military strategist, and this is really exciting.
Finally, something is happening.
The standard Jews are seething like pus-filled boils.
Adm. Stavridis explains that there needn't be any debate over whether Russia has invaded Ukraine as there is a formal definition of "invasion" in international law. Watch: pic.twitter.com/5SHaXIjW0v
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) February 22, 2022
The idea that Russia's aggression toward Ukraine is about NATO is a manufactured excuse, @AnneApplebaum explains. It's about the challenge of Ukraine's democracy to Putin's autocratic system. pic.twitter.com/oUQTzT08AE
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) February 22, 2022
Russia has invaded Ukraine. The U.S. must respond with significant sanctions to punish Putin’s aggression and deter further invasion. Failure to do so invites further aggression.
Decades of inaction resulted in ever increasing belligerence towards the West. https://t.co/sSlIkJj3y8
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) February 22, 2022
Look at this infamous Jew claiming Putin is planning to kill all the Jews in the Ukraine.
Putin’s stated intention to round up, jail or even execute dissidents, LGBTQ and religious and ethnic minorities in Ukraine portends crimes against humanity. That nation’s 200,000 Jews are directly targeted. Sadly, economic sanctions are all we and our NATO allies have available.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 22, 2022
If only.
Here’s a pretty weird tweet for you:
CORRECTION: Putin orders Russian troops to Ukraine after recognizing breakaway regions https://t.co/NGYc8DKRCZ We are deleting previous tweets that used Putin’s description of ‘peacekeepers’ in referring to the troops pic.twitter.com/kkPz9MZlok
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 22, 2022
The Bidens are scrambling to try to get China not to back this.
I spoke with People's Republic of China State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. I underscored the need to preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) February 22, 2022
China is almost definitely going to back this, on the promise that Russia backs them on Taiwan.
Slightly surprisingly, the MAGA people are breaking with the mainstream GOP and saying that they don’t care about this.
That’s because there is no American interest that justifies our intervention in Ukraine, unless of course you consider all the shady deals Hunter Biden has going on over there to be an American interest. https://t.co/fy7GCJVOLQ
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 22, 2022
Biden is silent as we watch tyranny at one border and a full blown invasion at the other. And yet, he's willing to risk American lives to protect Ukraine's border.
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) February 22, 2022
Until we secure America’s border —
I do not care about Ukraine’s border.
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) February 22, 2022
This joke is getting a lot of play:
Oh Snap, Ukraine is preparing to kick some Russian Ass! My Bad, it’s Ottawa Police preparing to attack peaceful protesters.👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/VGMxh1W0zQ
— ᖇ. ᔕᑕOTT ᔕIᑕᗩᖇIO 2.0 (@SicarioScott) February 22, 2022
In general, if you turn on CNN or check the New York Times, it is brutally obvious that they are awaiting orders from the Democrat Party on how they should report on this.
Biden is set to give some kind of statement today, with sanctions and blah blah blah.
The Biden Administration and the media talked a big game about how they were going to destroy Russia if they invaded the Ukraine.
Well, Russia just invaded the Ukraine.
The ball’s in your court, big guy.
I just want to take a moment to shame all of those who claimed I was a hapooner and that nothing was going to happen: shame, shame, shame.
It’s happening, baby.
A Side Note
Gold jumped.
⚠️BREAKING:
*GOLD, OIL PRICES JUMP ON MOUNTING RUSSIA-UKRAINE FEARS$GC_F $CL_F #OOTT pic.twitter.com/DIl4VlZxYP
— Investing.com (@Investingcom) February 22, 2022
Bitcoin dropped significantly.
That doesn’t make sense for a reason.
The reason is: it doesn’t make any sense. Bitcoin is tracking with the stock market.
⚠️#BREAKING | The stock market crashed in Russia due to the rapid sales in stocks after Putin's statements.#russia #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaCrisis #USA #USA #Putin pic.twitter.com/8rRF51PHKa
— New News EU (@Newnews_eu) February 21, 2022
⚠️BREAKING:
*ASIAN MARKETS TUMBLE ACROSS THE REGION, TRACKING GLOBAL SELLOFF, ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR FEARS
🇯🇵 🇦🇺 🇨🇳 🇭🇰 🇹🇼 🇰🇷 pic.twitter.com/90U3wJXegD
— Investing.com (@Investingcom) February 22, 2022
That isn’t logical and won’t hold.
Bitcoin is not a “riskier asset” than gold.
Putin formally ordered troops into two separatist regions of Ukraine, raising the spectre of war. As oil surges toward $100 a barrel, riskier assets are falling out of favour. Any retaliation could further fuel inflationary fires, says @petesweeneypro https://t.co/pnoS8ZrFtP pic.twitter.com/WzhmPVsxLA
— ReutersBreakingviews (@Breakingviews) February 22, 2022
Meanwhile, sluts in Zimbabwe are exploiting the crisis to get more Twitter followers.
Good morning, let's follow each other please 🥺🥺
Zimbabweans | Arthur Fraser | MacG | Makhura | Putin | Ukraine | #Rosettenville | #PutSouthAficansFirst pic.twitter.com/RrpUdAhU9o
— Thuli (@aChangedHun) February 22, 2022