Welcome to Keith's night. Don't try it on anyone in the
libertarian Institute. Here is a summary of the last
two public, addresses given by Vladimir Putin, starting with
February 24th, 2022 citizens of Russia friends.
I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic
events in donbas and the key aspects of ensuring, the
security of Russia. I will begin with what I said in
my dress. On February 21st, 2022.
I spoke about our biggest concern.
It's and worries and about the fundamental threats which
irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia.
Consistently rudely and unceremonious Lee from year to
year. I am referring to the Eastward
expansion of NATO which is moving its military
infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border.
The reason this is important is because in 1990 to 1991.
There were a series of meetings between the American Secretary
of State, James Baker. And Mikhail Gorbachev, according
to these meetings, both the American and Russian side had
agreed that if Germany was reunified and taken out of the
East Germany vs West, Germany, where the East was controlled
by, the Soviets that NATO would not expand just as the Cuban
Missile Crisis was the result of Americans not being happy with
the Soviets having missiles in Cuba because the US had first
place missiles in Turkey. It's too much of a threat.
The example that Pat Buchanan uses is imagine if Russia had
been funding. The Mexican military and
training them and running more exercises and put a bunch of
Russian troops on the border. And Russia is known for
engaging. In regime change Wars, the
American Military would double would never let that fly.
So here are the countries that have come into nato in violation
of the American agreement. Czech Republic Hungary, Poland,
Bulgaria Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.
Here is the current Ukrainian president on NATO Ukrainian
presidents. Also told a joint news
conference with the German Chancellor.
Of course, we'd like to become members of NATO.
It's stipulated in Ukraine's Constitution.
So herein lies the important provocation, another piece of
work by Patrick Buchanan. I'll get back to the Putin
summary speech. Pat Buchanan wrote, this about
the second world war. It's important to know that when
you're looking Out the benefits. Let's say the benefit of getting
Russia out of Ukraine. What is the cost of doing?
So there's two sides to every coin at what cost?
Let's say, we get what we want. Are the ukrainians much better
under the Ukrainian government than the Russian government.
All of this has to be weighed. How many lives is it going to
cost? How much property is going to be
destroyed? Here's Pat Buchanan, taking on
the committing, the heresy of questioning, what is referred to
as the good War? So this is the one that the West
says is. So vitally necessary.
We can't I can't even have a discussion on how necessary this
war is. So this should give us an
indicator as to what we should look at in future Wars on
September 1st, 1939. 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the
Polish Frontier, on September 3rd, Britain declared war six
years later, 50 million Christians and Jews had perished
Britain was broken and bankrupt, Germany, a smoldering ruin
Europe. Had served as the site of the
most murderous combat known to man and and civilians.
Had suffered worse Horrors than the soldiers by May 1945.
Red Army hordes occupied all the great capitals of Central
Europe, Vienna Prague Budapest, Berlin. 100 million.
Christians were under the heel of the most barbarous tyranny in
history. The Bolshevik regime of the
greatest terrorist of them all Joseph Stalin.
So the war for Polish Independence, gave Poland to
Stalin Putin goes on to say, why he believes that the American
Military is a hostile Force as opposed to a complimentary one
properly speaking. The attempts to use us in their
interests never ceased until quite recently.
They sought to destroy our Traditional Values and force on
us. They're false values that would
erode us our people from within the attitudes.
They have been aggressively imposing on their country's
attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and
degeneration, because they are Reach a human nature.
This is not going to happen. No one has ever succeeded in
doing this nor will, they succeed.
Now? Despite all that in December of
twenty Twenty-One. We made yet another attempt to
reach an agreement with the United States and its allies on
the principles of European security and NATO's.
Non-expansion. Our efforts were in vain.
The United States had not changed.
Its position. It does not believe it necessary
to agree with Russia, on a matter that is tickle for us.
The United States is pursuing its own objectives.
While neglecting our interests Putin, then gives a historical
example of not responding to aggressors as they were first
expanding up to Russian borders. He goes on as a result.
The country was not prepared to counter The Invasion by Nazi
Germany, which attacked our motherland on June 22nd 1941.
Without declaring war, the country.
Stop the enemy and went On to defeat it, but this came at a
tremendous cost, the attempt to appease the aggressor ahead of
the Great Patriotic War proved to be a mistake, which came at a
high cost for our people. In the first months after the
hostilities broke out. We lost vast territories of
strategic importance, as well as millions of lives.
We will not make that mistake the second time we have no right
to do so. 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 statement that they need
to accelerate and step up efforts to bring their alliances
infrastructure, closer to Russia's 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.
For us to do. This brings me to the situation
in donbas. We can see that the forces that
staged the coup in Ukraine. In 2014, have seized power, are
keeping it with the help of ornamental election procedures
and have abandoned the path for a peaceful conflict settlement
for eight years. 48, endless years.
We have been doing everything possible to settle the
situation. By peaceful political means
everything was in vain. As I said in my previous
address. You cannot look.
Compassion that what is happening there, it became
impossible to tolerate it. We had to stop that atrocity
that genocide of millions of people who live there, who
pinned their hopes on Russia, on all of us.
It is their aspirations, the feelings and pain of the people
that were the main motivating force behind our decision, to
recognize the independence of the donbas, people's Republic's.
If we look at the sequence of events and the incoming reports,
the showdown between Russia. And these forces cannot be
avoided. It's only a matter of time.
They are getting ready and waiting for the right moment.
Moreover. They went as far to Aspire to
acquire nuclear weapons. We will not let this happen in
this context in accordance with article 51 chapter 7 of the
United Nations Charter with permission of Russia's,
Federation Council, and an execution of the treaties of
friendship and mutual assistance with Dansk People's Republic and
the lugansk People's Republic ratified by the federal assembly
on February 22nd. I made a decision to carry out a
special military operation. The purpose of this operation is
to protect people who for eight years now have been facing
humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime
to this end. We will seek to demilitarize and
do not suffice a Ukraine as well as bring to trial.
All those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against
civilians, including against citizens of the Russian
Federation. Here are some excerpts from
Putin's February 21st address. So I will start with the fact
that modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or to be more
precise, the Bolshevik communist Russia.
This process started practically right after the 1917 Revolution
and Lenin and his associates. Did it in a way that was
extremely harsh on. Sure, by separating severing.
What is historically Russian land?
Nobody asked the millions of people living there what they
thought. Then both before, and after the
Great Patriotic War World War Two Stalin Incorporated in the
USSR and transferred to Ukraine. Some lands that previously
belonged to Poland, Romania and Hungary in the process.
He gave Poland part of what was traditionally German land as
compensation. And in 1954 Khrushchev took
Crimea away from Russia, for some reason and also gave it to
Ukraine in effect. This is how the territory of
modern Ukraine. Was formed.
The current leadership of the country does not react to the
request of the people to cancel the laws, that undermine the
rights of the Believers. And now they have new laws
adopted again. So this is what a third world
war might get started over a geographical area.
That was historically. Part of Russia might again,
become part of Russia, devastating.
Putin continues later in the speech.
In March of 2021, Ukraine adopted a new military strategy
based on the belief that this document is almost completely
aimed at confrontation with Russia.
Some of these translations are just difficult to nail down.
They want to drag foreign States into the conflict with our
country. The strategy suggests organizing
Russian Crimea and donbas as basically terrorist
underground's and it also outlines the War.
We also heard statements about Ukraine's, wanting to create its
own nuclear power plant, that's not just an idle threat.
We cannot help but react to this real threat, especially since I
would like to retract, that Western backers can help.
Ukraine, with getting this weapon to create yet another
threat to our democracy because we can see how consistently they
are pumping. Ukraine with weapons of mass
destruction. We are well aware that last year
under the guise of War Games. NATO countries military,
contingents were deployed. In Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Army is already integrated into NATO, which
means that Ukrainian units have already been approved directly
by the NATO headquarters. In other words, if Ukraine joins
NATO, it would pose a direct threat to Russia's security more
than that. I will say something that I've
never shared in public before. I It back in 2000, when
President Clinton was visiting Moscow at the end of his term
and I asked him how America saw Russia joining NATO.
So that's Putin's way of saying. He has extended his hand to the
West, going back to the year 2000, as they have previously
done, when they expanded NATO, to the east moving,
infrastructure and Military infrastructure.
Closer to our borders, ignoring our protests and warnings.
They simply did whatever. They deem necessary and
appropriate and I believe they intend to continue.
In you doing so because they see us as dogs working at the
Caravan which we have never agreed to, and we'll never agree
to. So the war is over, NATO's
expansion. Eastward and violation of
America's previous promises. Pat Buchanan says this, in his
books, going back to 1999. Vladimir Putin, says this, this
is clearly what's at stake here. Now, people will say, well, we
can't just sit back and do nothing.
But sometimes nothing is better than something.
Terrible. Here is Pat Buchanan in his
book, Churchill Hitler, and the unnecessary War, unlike
Churchill in the 1930s. Leaders of the late 40s and 50s.
Believe that while the fate of Poland and Czechoslovakia was
tragic, both were Beyond any us vital interest from 1949 to
1989. The American Army, never crossed
the Yalta line. When East Germans Rose in 1953
and hungarians in 1956. Eisenhower declined to act in
1959. I welcome The Butcher of
Budapest to Camp David while Khrushchev.
If built the Berlin Wall Kennedy called up the reserves then sent
them home after a year in the missile crisis of 1962.
Kennedy cut a secret deal. To take u.s.
Missiles out of turkey for Cruz chefs.
Taking Russian missiles, out of Cuba.
When the Prague spring was crushed in 1968.
LBJ did nothing u.s. In action was not due to
cowardice, but cold calculation, as to what was worth risking war
with nuclear arms, Soviet Union and But was not worth risking
War. When the Polish workers movement
solidarity was crushed in 1981. Ronald Reagan, denounced the
repression, but he neither broke diplomatic relations with Warsaw
nor imposed economic sanctions. And the Soviet Union still came
crumbling down. This war is not necessary.
If you go to NATO's website, you can look at their key events
list as being created in. In 49 and never invoking Article
5, which is the collective security article saying that
basically an attack on Budapest is equivalent to an attack on
Baltimore. Any Nation is attacked.
All Nations respond as though it was their own land from 1949 to
2001. They never invoke the article.
So that was Mao Stalin Khrushchev Pol, Pot, all those
people. For all those years, did not get
an 80. Response, so they had a lot of
time to plan for 2001. When, if you go to their
website, it says large-scale terrorist attacks in New York
and Washington. D.c.
NATO invokes Article 5 for the first time ever and adopts a
broader approach to security. So the first time they ever do
it, having 52 years to plan for how this would go.
They go to war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, spend
trillions of dollars. Tens of thousands of Civilian
lives, tens of thousands of guys with PTSD.
And women and children suffering and the Taliban took over in 11
days after they left. So that that is a NATO's, great
accomplishment for the first large-scale born that they
declared 52 years. And and that's that's what we're
risking all this risk for virtually.
No reward again doing nothing is better than doing something
terrible. So finally, we will hear Nancy
Pelosi and even Ben Shapiro. Say well, of course, we got to
support Ukraine. Ukraine to democracy.
Well Russia by the same metric is also a democracy, but then
they say, oh well Putin. So corrupt and buys off all the
people that their elections aren't legitimate.
So without any evidence, they believe it's okay to question a
presidential election. Okay?
Different story for a different show.
Pat Buchanan gives a number of examples for NATO member states
that were never Democratic. He gives the example of Spain
under General Franco. Portugal under dr.
Salazar Greece, being under a colonel dictatorship from 1967
to 1974. He then says, whether or nation
is democratic should be of less concern to us, then how it views
America. In the Cold War autocratic,
Pakistan was a better friend than Democratic India, which
sided with Moscow in the Afghan war chilies.
Pinochet was a better friend than the elected demagogue
Salvador Allende. The authoritarians in Seoul and
Manila supported America in Vietnam, while France and
Britain traded With the Enemy. So again, there's just no
justification. No economic justification.
No moral one, no strategic one. And then the Democratic one is
also fake. Thank you for watching Keith and
I don't try it on anyone and the libertarian Institute.