If I was Putin, I would give a speech to the West saying: Your government chose this for you. They chose this path. They lied to you telling you that we would run out of ammunition in 3 days. Telling you that our army is depleted knowing that we have committed less than 20% of our forces and are firing 25000 shells a day. Telling you that Ukraine is winning while we control 20% of their land and over 50% of their GDP producing commodities. They failed to tell you that in January 2022 Zelensky had amassed 1000s of soldiers on the Donbas borders, ready to take it back by force and they supported this. That in the days before the SMO shelling on civilians had increased. That on February the 21st Russia recognised the Donbas Republics and they asked for assistance and we assisted under article 51 of the UN charter. They called Russians monsters to manufacture your consent for a proxy war, knowing it would make you poorer.
The west is based on a "rules based order" where sanctions are imposed not based on the threat posed, but on challenging the hegemony of the Anglo-American axis and who still trade with countries committing atrocities today.
That axis in hypocrisy, has been responsible for the deaths and displacement of millions of people over the decades. I would remind people of the collateral damage of bombing
weddings... of enacting regime changes that often lead to civil wars....of the same people who cried "weapons of mass destruction"...the everlasting effect of colonialism and slavery, the looting of resources from poorer countries (as happened to Russia in the 1990s).
I would remind Europe that 25 million Russians died defeating Hitler on the Eastern front and it was the Red Army that stormed Berlin, we paid that price in blood so that Europe could be free, and now you call us Nazis? 1000s of Russian Jews and Polish were murdered in WW2 by the
Bandera/Waffen SS aligned Ukrainian insurgent army.
For 8 years we begged the West to enforce or implement the Minsk agreements. We asked them to show the atrocities committed against the Eastern Donbas for the crime of being "Russian", the Odessa massacre, the daily shelling by the Ukrainian Govt, the disappearances, the children's graves and nothing.
I knew that the West is agreement incapable and hypocritical, that's why for the last 8 years we formed alliances. We stockpiled weapons knowing that War would come. Maybe that's why the Global South representing 85% of the world population supports or is neutral towards Russia. They too have been victims of this "rules based order", they too have suffered regime change and looting by Western nations. The "non civilised" world is ready for revenge.
NATO said not one inch to the left in 1991, we told you it was a red line and you ignored our concerns. Instead you surrounded us.
So to the people of the West, your leaders did this, forgetting the lessons of WW2 they armed and trained an army with nationalist battalions (2% or 20% doesn't matter) who became the best trained army in Europe by shelling civilians in the east. They sent weapons which killed Russian soldiers and of now which I have a cache of to study. They vowed to destroy Russia via sanctions and starve the Russian people, ignoring the hunger that would be caused to Global south who held dollars to buy Russian grain.
They banned everything Russian and caused the economic instability. So when you freeze this year ask them? Did you consent to your taxes being used to kill civilians for 8 years? Did you consent to being poorer and your children's futures being ruined. What kind of leaders would arm a place aligned with those who your elderly generation died for in WW2?
I vow to destroy the West as they vowed to destroy Russia and will avenge every murdered person in the East. Russia sits on 60 trillion dollars of resourced and we produce our own food.
Together with the nations of BRICS, we will create parallel systems and currencies to trade in encouraging widespread de-dollarisation.
I invite the global south to join in the vision of creating a multipolar new world order based on international law and mutual respect not dominated by a single power afraid of losing its number 1 spot, but on trading as peers.
We will not leave the Donbas as the last time we did people were tortured for 8 years. The west is happy to fight to the last Ukrainian and as Kissinger said "To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal"?,
We will trade with friendly countries based on respect and law. We will protect mother Russia by any means. Remember, I am the weak one, I waited 8 years trying to get Minsk implemented. I ordered the withdrawal from Donbas in 2014. Those behind me are angrier because of the Russophobia, your leaders actions showed moderates that you really do hate us. 80% of my people support me.