The Old World is Over: Key Takeaways from Putin’s First Major Speech Since Russia’s Military Offensive in Ukraine [VIDEO]

ER Editor: Here is a transcript of his speech (https://voxday.net/2022/06/18/transcript-putins-speech-at-spief/), and the video in its entirety, which is hard to find:

He calls out our hideous, deep state ‘elite’:

However, the ruling elite of some Western states seem to be harbouring this kind of illusion. They refuse to notice obvious things, stubbornly clinging to the shadows of the past. For example, they seem to believe that the dominance of the West in global politics and the economy is an unchanging, eternal value. Nothing lasts forever.

Our colleagues are not just denying reality. More than that; they are trying to reverse the course of history. They seem to think in terms of the past century. They are still influenced by their own misconceptions about countries outside the so-called “golden billion”: they consider everything a backwater, or their backyard. They still treat them like colonies, and the people living there, like second-class people, because they consider themselves exceptional. If they are exceptional, that means everyone else is second rate.

Thereby, the irrepressible urge to punish, to economically crush anyone who does not fit with the mainstream, does not want to blindly obey. Moreover, they crudely and shamelessly impose their ethics, their views on culture and ideas about history, sometimes questioning the sovereignty and integrity of states, and threatening their very existence. Suffice it to recall what happened in Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya and Iraq.

If some “rebel” state cannot be suppressed or pacified, they try to isolate that state, or “cancel” it, to use their modern term. Everything goes, even sports, the Olympics, bans on culture and art masterpieces just because their creators come from the “wrong” country.

This is the nature of the current round of Russophobia in the West, and the insane sanctions against Russia. They are crazy and, I would say, thoughtless. They are unprecedented in the number of them or the pace the West churns them out at.

The idea was clear as day – they expected to suddenly and violently crush the Russian economy, to hit Russia’s industry, finance, and people’s living standards by destroying business chains, forcibly recalling Western companies from the Russian market, and freezing Russian assets.

This did not work. Obviously, it did not work out; it did not happen. Russian entrepreneurs and authorities have acted in a collected and professional manner, and Russians have shown solidarity and responsibility.

Step by step, we will normalise the economic situation. We have stabilised the financial markets, the banking system and the trade network. Now we are busy saturating the economy with liquidity and working capital to maintain the stable operation of enterprises and companies, employment and jobs.

We are strong people and can deal with any challenge. Like our predecessors, we can resolve any task. The entire thousand-year history of our country bears this out.

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The old world is over: Key takeaways from Putin’s first major speech since Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine

Russian leader has buried the old world order and outlined his view on Russia’s and the world’s future, in a key address

RT

New centers of power have emerged, the unipolar world order isn’t coming back, and the “colonial” way of thinking has failed, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday, in what the Kremlin described as an “extremely important” speech.

The old world order is gone with the wind

When the US declared victory in the Cold War, Americans designated themselves the “messengers of God on earth,” with interests that should be considered sacred and no obligations, Putin told the audience at SPIEF. New centers of power have since emerged, and have the right to protect their own systems, economic models and sovereignty. These “truly revolutionary, tectonic changes in geopolitics, the global economy, in the technological sphere, in the entire system of international relations,” are “fundamental, pivotal and inexorable,” Putin said. “And it is a mistake to suggest that one can wait out the times of turbulent change and that things will return to normal; that everything will be as it was. It will not.”

Anti-Russian sanctions backfired on the West

When the US and its allies launched the campaign to “cancel” Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, they hoped to crash and undermine the Russian economy and society. The sanctions have instead boomeranged on their creators, aggravating social and economic problems, driving up the cost of food, electricity and fuel, and hurting the quality of life across the West, but especially in Europe. “The European Union has completely lost its political sovereignty, and its bureaucratic elites are dancing to someone else’s tune, accepting whatever they are told from above, causing harm to their own population and their own economy,” Putin said. EU citizens will pay the price for “decisions divorced from reality and taken contrary to commonsense,” he added, as direct losses from the sanctions alone could exceed $400 billion in a year.

Energy prices and inflation are self-inflicted

Blaming the high energy prices and inflation in the West on Russia – “Putin’s price hike,” as the White House put it – is a “stupidity” and “designed for people who can’t read or write,” the Russian president said. “Don’t blame us, blame yourselves,” Putin said. The EU “blindly believing in renewable sources” and abandoning long-term natural gas contracts with Russia led to the spike in energy prices last year, according to the Russian leader. Meanwhile, both the US and the EU addressed the Covid-19 pandemic by printing trillions of dollars and euros.

‘Elite change’ awaits the West

Policies undertaken by EU and US leaders are exacerbating inequalities and divisions in their societies, not just in terms of welfare but in terms of values and orientations of various groups, Putin said. “Such a detachment from reality, from the demands of society, will inevitably lead to a surge of populism and the growth of radical movements, to serious social and economic changes, to degradation and, in the near future, to a change of elites,” the Russian leader said.

If there’s a famine, it won’t be Russia’s fault

US and EU sanctions against Russia – in particular fertilizer and grain exports – are one of the reasons for growing global food insecurity, Putin pointed out. If there is famine in the world’s poorest countries, “this will be entirely on the conscience of the US administration and the European bureaucracy.

Troubles with food supply have arisen over the past several years – not months – due to the “short-sighted actions of those who are accustomed to solving their problems at someone else’s expense,” distorting the trade flows by printing money in a sort of “predatory colonial policy,” Putin said.

Russia is ready to send food to Africa and the Middle East, where the threat of famine is most acute, but faces “logistical, financial, transport” obstacles imposed by the West, he said.

Reasons for the Ukraine conflict

Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February because the West refused to abide by its obligations, and it was “simply impossible to reach any new agreements with them,” Putin said. The decision was “forced, but necessary,” as Russia had every right as a sovereign country to defend its security and protect its citizens and residents of Donbass from “genocide by the Kiev regime and neo-Nazis who received the full protection of the West.” The West spent years turning Ukraine into an “anti-Russia” state and pumping it with weapons and military advisers, Putin said, pointing out they “did not give a damn” about Ukraine’s economy or the lives of its people, but “spared no expense to create a NATO foothold in the east, directed against Russia, to cultivate aggression, hatred and Russophobia.” “All the objectives of the special military operation will be unconditionally achieved,” Putin said.

Economic development is an expression of sovereignty

In the 21st century, sovereignty can’t be partial, Putin argued. All of its elements are equally important and complement each other, and the economy is one of them. There are five key principles Russia will follow in economic development: Openness, freedom, social justice, infrastructure, and technological sovereignty. Russia will “never follow the path of self-isolation and autarky,” but will expand interactions with anyone who wishes to trade, Putin said, adding there are “many such countries.” Moscow will also support private enterprise, build and repair its transportation infrastructure, seek to reduce social inequality, and ensure its key technologies are not dependent on foreign imports.

“Truly sovereign states are always committed to equal partnerships,” while “those who are weak and dependent, as a rule, are busy looking for enemies, planting xenophobia, or finally losing their originality, independence, blindly following the overlord,” he said. (ER: Which certainly describes the West.)

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5 Comments on The Old World is Over: Key Takeaways from Putin’s First Major Speech Since Russia’s Military Offensive in Ukraine [VIDEO]

  1. Dear President Putin,
    I believe if anyone can do the right thing, it must surely be you. However, I have yet to hear you state the solution publicly. If you need my help, please let me know.

  2. All of the world leaders who kiss the WEF, NWO, WHO donkeys, are the ones that are the biggest threat to mankind. I feel Russia is better off with Putin than we in Canada, US, UK, etc with psychopathic wanna be leaders. Putin seems to care about the people which is more than I can say about Canada. The grass is alway greener on the other side of the fence when one lives in mud. There is an issue that I do not speak Russian and wonder if what is being translated is true. It would help if someone, like a citizen, that speaks Russian could verify what Putin is saying. Trust has been eroded regarding any government, etc and so called leaders. The question is would Putin’s way of governing fix anything? Would we be better off? Is this just another way to do the same thing under different dictators where the people are still the sheep? The same thing, just different characters, is this all about ownership by the globalists, Pharma, Corporations, Banks, etc a place where the sheep feel comfortable in their cages? Sounds like the same old.

  3. I don’t know what life on the ground is like for Russians, and all leaders say what they think people want to hear, but I gotta say, Putin is the only one speaking with common sense and political acumen right now. I’ve said all along this ‘invasion’ talk by the EU, US, et al was a lie, and I’ve seen Putin as the only sane leader not following the globalists. Whether the citizenry live in fear or in comfort, remains to be seen but I tell ya: I’d rather have Putin than Trudeau and his band of the (M)erry (B)rotherhood any day.

  4. (ER Editor here) We can only agree with you, Peggy. When you listen to Putin, you get someone in reality, capable of cogent analysis of the madness that’s taken over the West. Who still thinks like a ‘leader’ in charge of a ‘country’ of ‘citizens’. Those concepts have been lost here.

  5. I’ve done a ton of research over the past few years and I believe the west is the problem. Putin is right. He seems to be taking care of his country and his people. The west is trying to kill it’s people.

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