(Newswars) During a Thursday speech addressing Russian parliament officials, President Vladimir Putin warned that the military has barely started its operations in Ukraine – suggesting he sees a long haul fight possibly for the whole of Ukraine ahead – in a direct challenge to the West as it continues to send arms to Kiev.
It’s being widely viewed as one of the fiercest speeches and challenges issued to Western backers of Ukraine since he authorized the Feb.24 invasion. He said that “the West wants to fight us until the last Ukrainian” – which he called a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, before adding, “It looks like it’s heading in that direction,” and then put the world on notice that Russia “by and large hasn’t started anything seriously yet.”
“Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. Well, what can you say here? Let them try,” Putin said, in a direct challenge to the US and NATO, though without naming them specifically.
“At the same time, we don’t reject peace talks. But those who reject them should know that the further it goes, the harder it will be for them to negotiate with us,” he added, according to a translation carried in Reuters.
Other translations of the speech quoted Putin as saying Russia’s military hasn’t started anything “in earnest yet”. He charged that it was the West that started hostilities through the war in Donbas – ongoing since 2014. Putin further reiterated a prior theme he’s spoken about of witnessing the birth of a multi-polar world due to Russia’s resistance to NATO hegemony, according his words cited in The Moscow Times:
He accused “the collective West” of unleashing a “war” in Ukraine and said Russia’s intervention in the pro-Western country marked the beginning of a shift to a “multi-polar world.”
“This process cannot be stopped,” he added.
He also warned Kyiv and its Western allies that Moscow has not even started its military campaign in Ukraine “in earnest.”
“Everyone should know that we have not started in earnest yet,” he said.
He also seemed to aim comments at the domestic populations of the West, and hinted at the resistance of BRICS countries to “totalitarian liberalism”:
2 comments:
There was never really a question of whether or not Russia would win. They always had the numbers necessary. The real question was whether or not they could do so at a price that
was acceptable. It's pretty obvious that while they will prevail they will also pay a very very steep price for doing so....both in terms of bodies and in terms of equipment. Winning this little ego war is going to cost them a great deal and leave them significantly weaker than they already were. The Russian military was at best a third world military only feared because they had access to nuclear warheads. They are in even worse shape now. The only saving grace for Russia is that NATO is a shadow of it's self when compared to the 80's and the US Military has been suborned and coopted by the liberal gay left so it's not much of a threat anymore. But China could eat Russia's lunch any time they choose to do so now.
****The Russian military was at best a third world military****
You obviously never bothered to look at the arms chart above. Third world??? Right
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