Not a good speech by Putin. Nothing of substance said. No scale down. No scale up. Everything is going well. Stay the course. The West are unreliable partners. Promises broken. Russia the innocent victim. Retaliation? Nah. Economy stronk. Solidarity stronk. All Russia united. Victory soon.
Blah-blah-blah indeed.
Girkin on the man-that-look-like-Putin's speech: nothing of substance has been said, the same old drivel about successes in the army and economy.
Frankly, the majority of Russian commentators not on the gov-s payroll seem to be of a similar opinion.
So much for the announcement of the great Jeet Kun Do offensive.
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Maybe I’ll have more to say on the speech tomorrow.
Pretty disappointing though.
I honestly expected better and even then I was letdown.
Let’s see what the Kremlin tea leaf readers have to say though.
when the country is mired in a protracted war, under assault from the American Empire and still has many people, especially those in power, who would prefer to collaborate with the Empire a very different speech was needed. Granted, I can't read it in its original Russian but recaps of Putin's greatest hits isn't particularly inspiring and could have been written by an intern or AI from old speeches. Yeah, there was the START issue but are the families of soldiers going to be excited because Russia pulled out of START? Sounds rather abstract to me.
The expectations of the 5d crowd are a good tell of what should have been said. To be inspiring, there should have been a vision of the next stage of building a multipolar world and/or the war. However, it is hard to set out a clear vision of where you are going with the war when you clearly don't want to fight it.
A nothing-burger of a speech. IMO this just reinforces your assertions, Rolo.