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'''Dr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, J.D., Ph.D.''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Владимир Владимирович Путин) (born October 7, 1952) affectionately know known as '''Uncle Vova''', {{fact}} is the [[Christian]] socially [[conservative]] statesman and president of the [[Russian Federation]], <ref>[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/how-russia-became-a-leader-of-the-worldwide-christian-right-214755/ How Russia Became the Leader of the Global Christian Right], By CASEY MICHEL, ''[[Politico]]'', February 09, 2017. politico.com</ref> a position he has held since 2012, {{fact}} after serving as prime minister since May 8, 2008, {{fact}} and previously serving as [[president]] since December 31, 1999<ref>[[Boris Yeltsin]] resigned from the presidency on that day, and Putin was later elected president by 54% of the electorate on March 26, 2000.</ref> Putin holds a law degree where he specialized in international trade<ref>https://www.forexlive.com/news/a-little-known-but-scary-fact-about-vladimir-putin-20220920/</ref> and a doctorate in [[economics]] focusing on energy and particulallry particularly the field of oil and gas.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250171761_The_Putin_Thesis_and_Russian_Energy_Policy</ref> Long targeted In keeping with the axiom that governments derive their just powers by [[globalism|globalists]]the consent of the governed, Putin was announced his candidacy for re-election as President of the subject Russian Federation in December 2023. In Russia, where the President is directly elected by the people, Putin enjoyed an 80% approval rating for his handling of a controversial the economy and scandalous the [[International Criminal Courtforeign policy]] arrest warrant issued by it aggression of the Western powers and the United States in March 2023Ukraine which began in 2014.<ref>[https://www.wndforbes.com/2023sites/dereksaul/2022/03/international31/putins-criminaldomestic-courtapproval-hitsrating-putinreaches-arresthighest-warrantlevel-in-five-years/?utm_source=izooto&utm_mediumsh=push_notification&utm_campaign=ICC_hits_Putin_with_arrest_warrant7b162a283694 Putin’s Domestic Approval Rating Reaches Highest Level In Five Years], Derek Saul, ''[[Forbes]], Mar 31, 2022. forbes.com</ref> The legitimacy of the International Criminal Court <ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putins-approval-rating-soars-since-he-sent-troops-into-ukraine-state-pollster-2022-04-08/ Putin's approval rating soars since he sent troops into Ukraine, state pollster reports], By Peter Hobson, ''[[Reuters]]'', April 8, 2022. reuters.com</ref><ref>[https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia/ Vladimir Putin's approval rating in Russia monthly 1999-2023], Published by law is not recognized by the United States and several of its alliesStatista Research Department, Oct 27, 2023.statista.com</ref>
Vladimir Putin has been accused of running the Russian Federation 's decision in February 2022 to intervene in much the same manner as [[Bill ClintonDonbas war|Ukraine civil conflict]] and followed the precedents set by the [[Hillary ClintonObama]] have been criticized for running the state era doctrine of ''Responsibility to Protect'' or R2P articulated by UN ambassador [[ArkansasSamantha Power]] during the 2011 [[Libyan war]] and sanctioned by [[UN Security Council]] Resolution 1973, the [[United StatesBill Clinton|Clinton]] government - taking money from bombing of [[corruptSerbia]] in 1998 to carve out the separatist province of [[oligarchKosovo]]s and eliminating political opponents , and the [[journalistBush Doctrine]]s. Like of preventative war to protect civilians of the [[Joe BidenDonbas]], Putin has been criticized for using . The Donbas region had endured eight years of atrocities by the U.S.-backed [[law enforcementMaidan coup|Maidan regime]] , which was preparing a large scale military action against Russian-speaking civilians in early 2022.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to harass political opponents-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> Article 51 of the United Nations Charter allows for collective security arrangements.
Vladimir Putin's decision in February 2022 to commit troops to the A baptized [[UkraineRussian Orthodox]] was precedented by [[Christian]] who quotes the [[Bush DoctrineBible]] of preventative war, <ref>https://www.libertynation.com/why-vladimir-putin-quotes-the UN sanctioned doctrine of R2P -bible/ (Responsibility to Protect), as articulated by analyzing with skepticism Putin's quote of [[Samantha PowerScriptures]] during ).</ref> Putin leads the 2011 increasingly [[Libyan warconservative]] and Russia against the 1998 Clinon incursion into [[Kosovohomosexual agenda]], to protect civilians in the [[Donbastransgenderism]] region who had endured eight years of atrocities by , and towards the U.S.[[pro-backed life]] side. [[Maidan coup|Maidan regimeAbortion]] which was preparing a large scale military action against Russian-speaking civilians and other [[leftist]] values had virtually wiped out natural population growth in early 2022[[Soviet]] times,<ref>https://wwwand left an indelible scar on [[culture]].anews Liberals criticize Putin and [[Russia]] because they disagree with him on social issues.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-Putin has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> also criticized liberal values as "against nature" and Article 51 out of the United Nations Charter which allows for collective security arrangementstouch with a more traditional population. According to the Biden regimeOn July 24, Vladimir 2023 President Putin sabotaged the production of baby milk formula in sign a law passed by the Russian State Duma banning [[United Statessex change]] in 2021medical procedures and so-called "gender affirming care". The law passed unanimously by Russia's democratically elected parliament also bans hormone treatment, prohibits people who have changed their gender marker on official documents from adopting children, more than year in advance of the US and EU imposed [[Russian sanctions]]allows spouses of people who have changed their gender marker to have their marriages annulled.<ref>https://wwwnovayagazeta.dailykos.comeu/storiesarticles/20222023/507/14/209791424/putin-signs-Alllaw-roadsbanning-leadsex-tochange-Putinin-even-if-baby-formula-might-be-more-importantrussia-thanen-bombsnews</ref>
Despite Western [[propaganda]] and [[CIA]]/[[National Endowment for Democracy]]/[[Open Society]] meddling in the internal affairs of Russia with calls for an uprising to overthrow Vladimir While President Putin, more than 1 million people turned out in the streets of [[Moscow]] for the 2022 [[Victory Day]] celebrations of the Immortal Regiment for which Vladimir Putin was the featured honored speaker.<ref>https://videopress.com/v/KnJnf4eu</ref> The [[Islamophobic]] racist and CIA puppet, [[Alexander Navalny]] has about 0.5% name recognition inside Russia, despite US and Western propaganda that he could be a alternative stooge president of Russia controlled by [[the West]]. Navalny has since been convicted of acting as an agent of a foreign power. Putin had increased Russia's stature in international affairs despite its underrated economic position.<ref>Seib, Gerald F. (May 6, 2019). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-punches-above-continues hispro-weight-11557150000 Putin Punches Above His Weight]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved May 7, 2019.</ref> As a result of the economic sanctions leveled against Putin, he was booted out of the [[World Economic Forum]].<ref>https://twitter.com/teddyfenton1/status/1498792512772784128|</ref> As of March 2022 however, Putin still maintained a [[Twitter]] account, although not very often used. According to Kremlin press spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Putin considers it dishonest to allow staff and media consultants to script twitter messages in his name.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/04/after-banning-trump-for-denouncing-violence-twitter-lets-putin-keep-his-account/</ref> A baptized Russian Orthodox [[Christian]] who quotes the [[Bible]],<ref>https://www.libertynation.com/whyanti-vladimir-putin-quotes-the-bible/ (analyzing with skepticism Putin's quote of [[Scriptures]]).</ref> Putin leads the increasingly [[conservative]] Russia against the [[homosexual agenda]]globalist policies, [[transgenderism]], and towards the [[pro-life]] side. [[Abortion]] and other [[leftist]] values had virtually wiped out natural population growth in [[Soviet]] times, and left an indelible scar on [[culture]]. Liberals criticize Putin and [[Russia]] because they disagree with mainstream media would rather praise Ukrainian war criminal Zelensky than him on social issues. [[Obama]] even refused to attend the Winter Olympic games held in Russia in 2014. Putin has also criticized liberal values as "against nature" and out of touch with a more traditional population.<ref>Multiple references:
*Isachenkov, Vladimir (June 29, 2019). [https://www.apnews.com/401b6cfd5b9c4a619851196410bc5814 Putin says liberalism ‘eating itself,’ migrant influx wrong]. ''Associated Press''. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
*Calicchio, Dom (June 28, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/world/putin-liberal-values-obsolete-people-in-west-prefer-traditional-values Putin: Liberal values ‘obsolete,’ people in West prefer ‘traditional’ values]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
{{quotebox-float|"he works in a military enterprise, where the so-called "armor" exempts from conscription. But he wrote a statement about joining the party, and then another statement - that he wanted to go to the front. They sent him to a sabotage detachment of the [[NKVD]]. It was a small detachment. He said that there were 28 people there, they were thrown into the near rear to carry out sabotage acts. Blowing up bridges, railway tracks... But they were ambushed almost immediately. Someone betrayed them. They came to one village, then left there, and when they returned after a while, the [[fascist]]s were already waiting for them there. They chased him through the woods, and he survived because he climbed into the swamp and sat in the swamp for several hours and breathed through the reeds.... he told me that a German was at the head of their group. At the same time, a Soviet citizen. But he's German....a couple of years ago, a file was brought to me from the archives of the Ministry of Defense on this group....List of groups, surnames, first names, patronymics and brief characteristics. Yes, 28 people. And led by a German. All as my father said. Of the 28 men, four crossed the front line back to ours. 24 died.<ref>https://ruspioner.ru/cool/m/single/4655</ref>}}
Putin is fluent in the German language and is widely recognized as a Germanophile and admirer of German culture.<ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/hugging-it-out-with-russia/</ref>
[[File:Putin Reagan Gorbachev unverified photo.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Unverified phot of Putin (left, striped shirt}, his son, shaking hands with [[Ronald Reagan]] with Gorbachev (behind, light suit) in [[Red Square]] in 1988.]]
According to a made-for-television documentary entitled, ''The second baptism of Rus'', Putin told a personal story how his mother had him secretly baptized in the Russian Orthodox church as his father, who was a member of the Communist Party organization in the factory where he worked, would have faced serious problems.<ref>https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2013/07/23/putin-christened-in-secret-from-his-father-a26057</ref> Putin was a [[judo]] champion in his youth.<ref>http://nypost.com/2013/11/13/vladimir-putin-is-tougher-than-chuck-norris/</ref> He was educated in law and economics at Leningrad State University before being assigned to work in the [[KGB]].<ref>[http://en.putin.kremlin.ru/ Webpage of Vladimir Putin]</ref> After five years in [[East Germany]], he took up various political positions before becoming [[prime minister]] in 1999.
[[File:Vladtheimpaler.jpg|thumb|200px|Putin at an conference]]
He was married to Lyudmila Putina, a former stewardess with Aeroflot, from July 28, 1983, until 2014, when the two divorced. They have two daughters.
The legend of Putin began the night of the [[Fall of the Wall]] in Germany. Putin was stationed in the consulate in [[Dresden]]. A mob had raided the [[East German]] [[Stasi]] headquarters and moved on to the Soviet consulate. In the chaos, communication with [[Moscow]] was cut off. Putin, acting alone without instructions and armed only with a pistol, stared down the mob and told them if they took one more step, they would be shot. The mob retreated and returned to continue pillaging the Stasi headquarters.
As the 1990s progressed, Western [[capital]] and corporate raiders flooded into Russia to buy up Soviet assets at bargain basement prices. Prior to the collapse, Soviet enterprises did not operate on the profit motive and received government subsidies, keeping outmoded factories and industries alive while operating at a loss to keep workers employed. When the subsidies and transfers of wealth perished with the Soviet government, the country fell into a deep recession. People were not very enamored toward with the transition to capitalism as foreign investors took control of the nation's economy.<ref>In a review of ''New York Times'' reporter Anne Williamson's book, ''Contagion: The Betrayal of Liberty -- Russia and the United States in the 1990s'', Paul Likoudis writes: "According to the [[socialist]] theoreticians at [[Harvard]], Russia needed to be brought into the [[New World Order]] in a hurry; and what better way to do it than [Jeffrey] Sachs' "shock therapy" -- a plan that empowered the degenerate, third-generation descendants of the original [[Bolshevik]]s by assigning them the deeds of Russia's mightiest state-owned industries -- including the giant gas, oil, electrical, and telecommunications industries, the world's largest paper, iron, and steel factories, the world's richest gold, silver, diamond, and platinum mines, automobile and airplane factories, etc. -- who, in turn, sold some of their shares of the properties to Westerners for a song, and pocketed the cash, while retaining control of the companies.
These third-generation Bolsheviks -- led by former [[Pravda]] hack Yegor Gaidar, grandson of a Bolshevik who achieved prominence as the [[Young mass murders|teenage mass murderer]] of [[White Army]] officers, now heads the Moscow-based Institute for Economies in Transition -- became instant millionaires (or billionaires) and left the Russian workers virtual slaves of them and their new foreign investors."<br>[https://www.blacklistednews.com/HOW_CLINTON_AND_COMPANY_AND_THE_BANKERS_PLUNDERED_RUSSIA_IN_THE_%2790S/48111/0/38/38/Y/M.html HOW CLINTON AND COMPANY AND THE BANKERS PLUNDERED RUSSIA IN THE '90s], Paul Likoudis, January 2, 2016</ref> As in the Dresden incident, Putin's reputation of instinctively standing up to foreign intruders in defense of his country propelled his political rise.
Putin became the brunt of much globalist snarling, typically answered with the words of Barack Obama, "The 80s are calling. They want their foreign policy back".<ref>https://www.salon.com/2012/10/23/obama_the_80s_called_they_want_their_foreign_policy_back/</ref> Putin is known for his quick-witted sense of humor.
===Political career===
{{See also|Speeches of Vladimir Putin}}
In the Yeltsin years during the transition to capitalism, corrupt foreign and domestic [[oligarch]]s took control of the country. Putin's rise to power as a [[populist]] was by taxing and driving out corrupt foreign oligarchs whom the public viewed as looting the country, and throwing in jail corrupt domestic oligarchs as tax cheats.{{fact}} The oligarchs were his political enemies. Putin's success as a leader in Russia came about by reigning in the power of oligarchs.{{fact}} He allowed them to run the Russian economy provided that they stay out of politics, unlike Western so-called "democracies".{{fact}} Contrary to [[Western]] and [[CIA]] propaganda, Putin is not a friend of or controlled by oligarchs; rather, the oligarchs bow to his instructions and demands.{{fact}}
Putin has many controversial statements on [[Communism]] and has a good attitude toward the [[Muslim]] minorities living in the Russian Federation. [[Alexander Dugin]] argues:<ref>http://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/russian-conservative-view-putin-interview-alexander-dugin</ref>
{{Cquote|If we consider the situation in Russia more closely, we will discover that almost all that is said in the West about Putin is wrong. It is a complete caricature. The most important criticism of Putin inside Russia is not from the liberals. Liberals represent the smallest part of the critics. They are absolutely marginal… So the West is absolutely wrong in thinking that there is this big liberal opposition to Putin that is artificially kept down. The real opposition to Putin is growing completely on the other side of Russian society. It is growing discontent with "lunar" Putin, against the Putin who is surrounded by liberals. All the government is completely not only corrupt, it consists of pro-Western liberals. Nothing has changed after the last election.}}
Putin is mainly backed by the [[United Russia]] (''Единая Россия'') party, which currently holds a majority in the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, known as the ''Duma''. As a centrist party, it usually reflects the political views of Putin, which are that of authoritarian statism and [[nationalism]]. On March 14, 2004, he was elected to a second term as president with 71% of the vote. Barred from a third consecutive term by the Russian constitution, Putin ceded the presidency to [[Dmitry Medvedev]] on May 7, 2008, and became Prime Minister, at the time-sharing power with the more moderate Medvedev. Medvedev did not run for a second term, and, as a result, Putin was re-elected in 2012. Putin was again re-elected in 2018, facing little real opposition.
After his 2018 victory, Putin's approval ratings fell significantly due to public disapproval of some of his domestic policies.<ref>Bennetts, Marc (August 12, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/12/vladimir-putin-faces-russia-democracy-movement-dec/ Putin's political milestone marred by plummeting polls, massive protests]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved August 12, 2019.</ref>
Long targeted by [[globalism|globalists]], Putin was the subject of a controversial and scandalous [[International Criminal Court]] arrest warrant issued by it in March 2023.<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2023/03/international-criminal-court-hits-putin-arrest-warrant/</ref> The legitimacy of the International Criminal Court by law is not recognized by the United States and several of its [[vassal state]]s.
Western media describes Putin as running the Russian Federation in the same manner as [[Bill Clinton]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] ran the state of [[Arkansas]] and the [[US]] government - taking money from [[corrupt]] [[oligarch]]s and kleptocrats while killing off [[journalist]]s and political opponents. Like [[Joe Biden]], Putin has been criticized for using [[law enforcement]] to harass and murder political opponents.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/04/putins-and-bidens-chief-political-opponents-are-now-both-under-arrest/</ref> [[Nazi]]s and [[neoconservative]]s<ref>https://www.unz.com/article/russia-the-neoconservatives-and-the-real-issues-involved/</ref> are among Putin's most vociferous critics.<ref>https://www.voltairenet.org/article215855.html</ref> US [[Sen. JD Vance]] explained why the [[Washington, D.C.]] and [[Western alliance|Western]] [[establishment]] hate Putin so much - because Putin made Russia great again after the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], and later the [[CIA]] in the 1990s, had brought Russia down so low.<ref>[https://youtu.be/9mKbu66tgpY Why Does the US Establishment Hate Russia?], Dr. Vladimir Brovkin, Feb 5, 2024. [[YouTube]].</ref>
In the [[Russia#2024_Presidential_elections|2024 presidential election]], incumbent Vladimir Putin faced New People party nominee Vladislav Davankov; [[Liberal Democratic Party of Russia]] nominee Leonid Slutsky; and [[Communist Party]] of the Russian Federation nominee Nikolay Kharitonov. Putin was re-elected with over 87% of the vote amidst a 77% record-high voter turnout and [[NATO]] attacks on the Russian homeland. More than 500 international election observers witnessed the election process, compared to only 40 in the rigged [[2020 presidential election]] in the [[United States]].
During the voting, [[NATO]]-sponsored Ukrainian forces attempted to disrupt the [[democracy|democratic]] process by artillery shelling on polling stations in [[Donbas]] and [[Belgorod]], while launching an invasion with military forces along the border with the Russian mainland.<ref>[https://weapons.substack.com/p/ukraines-effort-to-interfere-in-russias Ukraine's Effort to Interfere in Russia's Election Backfire], [[Stephen Bryen]], MAR 18, 2024. weapons.substack.com</ref> Russian [[citizen]]s however, rallied to the flag of their homeland. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman [[Maria Zakharova]] stated, "NATO barks at our country several times a day, threatens it, ignites conflicts along our borders… It’s no surprise that the whole country united and fought back!."
==Political views==
Putin has been accused of employing the United States [[Democratic party]] tactic of illegal surveillance, harassment, investigation, arrest, and jailing of political opponents and dissidents, ostensibly as agents of a foreign power or domestic terrorists.
Learning from the mistakes of USSR in the Eastern Bloc, he made clear that taking countries against their right to self-determination is counterproductive and drains resources.<ref>https://youtu.be/DHIxry8WfyA</ref>
===Domestic policy===
A [[Christian]] himself, Putin governs a nation that is rapidly becoming more Christian and more [[conservative]], and his snubbing of [[liberal]] [[Obama]] in May 2012 suggests that Putin is well aware of how conservative his country is becoming. On social issues and taxation, Russia under Putin is more conservative today than the [[Western Europe]].
A [[Christian]] himself, Putin governs a nation that is rapidly becoming more Christian and more [[conservative]], and his snubbing of [[liberal]] [[Obama]] in May 2012 suggests that Putin is well aware of how conservative his country is becoming. On social issues and taxation, Russia under Putin is more conservative today than the [[Western Europe]].
[[File:Putin visits girl with leukemia.PNG|thumbnail|300px|right|Putin visits Rogachev, a girl suffering with [[leukemia]] in hospital.]]
In terms of achievements, Putin has successfully opposed the [[homosexual agenda]] and has supported [[pro-life]] reforms. He has also stabilized the Russian economy and restored Russia's national pride, largely by politically exploiting the financial windfall of Europe's need for Russian oil and gas. Russians were enthusiastic that he ended the social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent pell-mell privatization of the state-owned economy. Many Russians have been mesmerized by the new glitter of Moscow and the restored glamour of St. Petersburg. Russia's revived self-pride follows the humiliation of the chaos after 1991 and the incompetence of his predecessor [[Boris Yeltsin]]. Russians have a long history of authoritarian governments and a strong distaste for anarchy. They have little experience with freedom. The Russian mafia, which is more sophisticated than its counterparts elsewhere, controls more than 40 percent of the total economy. Their control is thought to be even greater in certain areas, such as banking, real estate, and consumer markets.<ref>[http://www.worldbank.org/html/prddr/trans/janfeb97/art4.htm Louise I. Shelley, ''The Price Tag of Russia's Organized Crime'']</ref> In November 2014, Putin started allowing his citizens to own concealed firearms for self-defense, but under certain restrictions.<ref>https://www.rt.com/news/206703-russia-guns-self-defense/</ref> Russia under Putin made it illegal for foreigners without a permit to preach, and banned cults that are harmful to families (Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientology engage in family shunning while Falun Gong, whose founder lives in a luxurious property, prevents family members from seeking medical treatment).<ref>http://forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2197s</ref> Not having a permit is why a Baptist pastor got heavily fined.<ref>http://www.christianpost.com/news/russia-persecution-christians-intensifies-putin-cant-be-trusted-experts-warn-184255/</ref> Like many parts of Europe, blasphemy against the church is also illegal.<ref>http://www.aif.ru/society/law/delo_est_a_boga_net_za_chto_na_samom_dele_sudyat_viktora_krasnova?fbclid=IwAR2bypeUccKIaU4-J0V-Ybe4pl0EsUK32g4EaItpB8pdJ_ZQ5SYS37lh7dU</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/russian-atheist-faces-year-in-jail-for-denying-existence-of-god-during-webchat</ref>
While not generally recognized as an outstanding public speaker before crowds, Putin is known for heart-to-heart talks, somewhat akin to U.S. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s fireside chats, on a wide range of topics and issues of interest and concern to the Russian people his using the [[television]] format.
==== Russian demography has long been an existential issue to Vladimir Putin ====
=== Views on abortion ===Putin rejects any constitutional protections to [[abortion]], as existed in the United States prior to the ''See also:Dobbs'' decision, but does not have the power to ban abortion under [[Russia]]'s fertility rateconstitutional system. Putin has supported and enforced [[pro-life]] laws in Russian which would be invalidated by [[pro-abortion]] courts in the United States. In 2017, he said that he will allow societal (including church) views to guide him on the issue:<ref>[http://fortune.com/2017/12/14/vladimir-putin-russia-abortion-pro-choice-press-conference/ An article biased in favor of [[abortion]]but useful for its quotations]</ref>
[[Russia's fertility rate]] of 1.58 births per woman is one of :“In the lowest fertility rates in modern world, the world.<ref name="IntelliNews">[https://intellinews.com/russian-fertility-rates-fall-decision is up to-record-lows-on-thewoman herself,” Putin said, and indicated that additional pro-back-of-a-deteriorating-economy-life proposals “must be careful, considered and-sanctions-pressure-243191/ Russian fertility rates fall to record lows based on the back of a deteriorating economy general mood in society and sanctions pressure], bne IntelliNews, 2022</ref> It's fertility rate is below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per womanmoral and ethical norms that have developed in society.”
Russian demography has long been Putin's "the decision" is an existential issue ambiguous phrase that could include the decision to Vladimir Putinhave the pregnancy in the first place. In 2021 Also, he declared “saving the people of Putin is very pro-[[Russia ]] and if thinks abortion is our top national priority".<ref>[https://fortune.com/2022/10/18/russia-population-historic-decline-emigration-war-plunging-lowering the birth-rate-form-perfect-storm/ Russia’s population is in a historic decline as emigrationharmful way, war and a plunging birth rate form a ‘perfect storm’], Fortune magazine, 2022</ref>then he could abolish it based on national interests.
Bne IntelliNews indicated in 2022:{{Cquote|Between 1993 and 2008, Russia’s population saw a considerable decline in its population from 148.37mn to 143.25. However, after Russian President Vladimir Putin took over in 2000 he put demographics at the top of the agenda and launched a comprehensive reform to boost the population, as featured by bne IntelliNews in “Putin’s babies”. The fruits of these reforms began to appear in around 2008 when the population began growing again...===Views on wokism===
The population increased again Putin told the Valdai Club in October 2021,<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/538121-putin-children-swap-gender-monstrous/</ref>[[File:Putin popularity.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Vladimir Putin's Popularity rating rose to 14583% during the Russia-Ukraine war.9mn recently; however, <ref>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-30/card/putin-s-approval-rating-jumps-after-invasion-poll-shows-fm8f4uSdiVfTxORQOE0v</ref>]]{{quotebox-float|"We see with bemusement the population was expected process unfolding in countries that have grown accustomed to peak at viewing themselves as the end flagships of 2020 and [[Progressive|progress]]. Of course it's none of our business what is projected happening - the social and cultural shocks that are happening in some Western countries. Some believe that aggressive blotting out of whole pages of your own history, and the requirement to start declining againrenounce the traditional interpretation of such basic values as mother, father, family, and the distinction between sexes are a milestone towards a renewal of society...we have a different point of view. We believe, at least the overwhelming majority of Russian society, that we need to rely on our own spiritual values and our historical traditions.
These problems were already very visible at On the end culture of our multi-ethnic nation, the 1990sproponents of so-called 'social progress' believe that they are bringing a new consciousness to humanity. Something that is [[political correctness|more correct]]...The recipes they come up with are nothing new. Paradoxical as it may seem, when demographers became increasingly alarmed at where but this is something we saw in Russia was heading.<ref name=It happened in our country before and after the [[October Revolution|1917 Revolution]]. The [[Bolshevik]]s followed the dogmas of [[Marx]] and [[Engels]]. And they also declared that they were going to change the traditional lifestyle, the political, the economic lifestyle, as well as the very notion of [[morality]], the basic principles. Fully, healthy society they were trying to destroy, century-long values. Revisiting the relationship between people. They were encouraging informing on one's own beloved and families. It was hailed as "IntelliNewsthe March of Progress"/>}}and it was very [[Popular Front|popular across the world]]. And it was supported by many.
Demographers estimate Russia will fall from being As we see it is happening right now. Incidentally, the 9th most populous country in the world to being the 17th by 2050Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant of other opinions different from their own.<ref name="IntelliNews"/> And estimates indicate I think this should remind you of something that is happening...it is with puzzlement that we see the practices Russia's population will drop from 2014's 142 million used to 128 million by 2050have, and that we left behind... The fight for equality and against discrimination turns into an aggressive dogmatism on the brink of absurdity. When great authors of the past such as [[Shakespeare]] are no longer taught inschools and universities because they did not understand the importance of gender or race.<ref name="IntelliNews"/>
===Political career===And [[File:V Putin.jpg|thumb|200pxHollywood]]In . There are leaflets reminding what you should do in the Yeltsin years during the transition to capitalismfilms - how many personalities and actors you've got, what kind of color, what sex, corrupt foreign and domestic [[oligarch]]sometimes it's took control even stricter than what the Department of Propaganda of the countrySoviet Communist Party Central Committee did. Putin's rise to power as And the fight against racism, which is a lofty goal, turns into [[populistcancel culture]] was by taxing and driving out corrupt foreign oligarchs whom the public viewed as looting the country, and throwing in jail corrupt domestic oligarchs as tax cheatsreverse discrimination. The oligarchs were his political enemies. Putin's success as a leader Racism in Russia came about by reigning in the power of oligarchsreverse. He allowed them to run the Russian economy provided that they stay out of politics, unlike Western so-called "democracies"It tears people apart. Contrary to Whereas the true fighters for [[Westerncivil rights]] and , they were trying to eliminate those differences....[[CIAMartin Luther King]] propagandasaid "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, Putin but by the content of their character." That is not a friend true value. ...in Russia, most of our Republics simply do not care what skin color you have. He or controlled by oligarchs; rathershe, the oligarchs bow to his instructions that's not that important, because each and demandsevery one of us is a human being. That's the most important thing.
Putin has many controversial statements on [[Communism]] The discussion about the rights of men and women has turned into a good attitude toward the [[Muslim]] minorities living total phantasmagoria in the Russian Federationa number of Western countries. [[Alexander Dugin]] argues:<ref>http://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/russian-conservative-view-putin-interview-alexander-dugin</ref>{{Cquote|If we consider the situation in Russia more closelyThose who risk saying that men and women still exist, we will discover that almost all and that this is said in the West about Putin is wronga biological fact, are virtually ostracized. It ..And this is a complete caricaturenot new. The most important criticism ..In the 1920s, Soviet culture-warriors invented a so-called ‘[[newspeak]]’, believing that in this way they would create a new sense of Putin inside Russia consciousness and redefine people’s values...This is not to mention things that are simply monstrous, like when children are taught from the liberalsan early age that a boy can easily become a girl and vice versa. Liberals represent the smallest part of the critics. They .In fact, they are absolutely marginal… So indoctrinating them into the West is absolutely wrong in thinking alleged choices that there is this big liberal opposition are supposedly available to everyone – removing parents from the equation and forcing the child to Putin make decisions that is artificially kept downcan ruin their lives. The real opposition to Putin is growing completely on the other side of Russian society. It .This is growing discontent with "lunar" Putin, borderline crime against humanity - all under the Putin who is surrounded by liberals. All the government is completely not only corrupt, it consists guise of pro-Western liberals"progress. Nothing has changed after the last election"<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6sIZ8-C1vw</ref>}}
Putin is mainly backed by === Views on communism and the Soviet Union ===[[United Russia]] (''Единая Россия'') party, which currently holds a majority in the lower chamber of the File:Solzhenitsyn and Putin.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Russian parliament, known as the ''Duma''. As a centrist party, it usually reflects the political views of President Vladimir Putin, which are that of authoritarian statism and presents [[nationalismhuman rights]]. On March 14, 2004, he was elected to a second term as president with 71% of the vote. Barred from a third consecutive term by the Russian constitution, Putin ceded the presidency to activist [[Dmitry MedvedevAlexander Solzhenitsyn]] on May 7, 2008, and became Prime Minister, at the time-sharing power with the more moderate Medvedevan award. Medvedev did not run for a second term, and, as a result, Putin was re-elected Solzhenitsyn set in 2012motion the movement that toppled Soviet communism. ]]Putin was again re-elected in 2018famously said, facing little real opposition"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."<ref>https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/vladimir_putin_452527</ref>
After his 2018 victory, Putinhas before called the [[Bolshevik]]s traitors for Russia's approval ratings fell significantly due to public disapproval defeat in the First World War.<ref>https://www.rt.com/politics/putin-accuses-bolsheviks-treason-877/</ref> However, he has also expressed that "[he] liked Communist and socialist ideas very much and [he] like[s] them still." and compared the Soviet code of some of his domestic policiesconduct to the [[Bible]].<ref>http://www.newsweek.com/russias-putin-says-he-always-liked-communist-socialist-ideas-419289</ref><ref>https://pjmedia.com/faith/tyler-o-neil/2018/01/17/putin-soviet-communism-is-very-similar-to-christianity-party-rules-are-a-bible-excerpt-n101328</ref> Putin also has compared communism with Christianity.<ref>BennettsNewman, Marc Alex (August 12January 16, 20192018). [https://www.washingtontimesthenewamerican.com/world-news/2019asia/augitem/12/vladimir28051-putincommunism-facesvery-russiasimilar-democracyto-movementchristianity-dec/ Putin's political milestone marred by plummeting pollsputin-claims Communism “Very Similar” to Christianity, massive protestsPutin Claims]. ''The Washington TimesNew American''. Retrieved August 12January 17, 20192018.</ref> Putin has been accused by Western media of embracing the tactics of Soviet dictator [[Joseph Stalin]].<ref>https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-stalin-model-20150611-story.html</ref> In addition, he implies in an interview with [[Larry King]] dated September 8, 2000 that his Christianity isn't actually sincere by stating in Russian that he "believes in the power of man" or "I believe in human beings." Though a few years later, his faith became more genuine.<ref>https://www.quora.com/Is-Vladimir-Putin-personally-religious</ref> Furthermore, around October 2017, he hosted the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students Communist event and gave a speech that strongly implied that he adhered to Communism.<ref>http://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/10/non-communist-putin-opens-major-international-communist-youth-festival/</ref><ref>http://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/07/russia-to-host-major-international-communist-youth-festival-on-putins-instructions/</ref>
==Political views==Putin Since passage of Sen. [[John McCain]]'s [[Magnitsky Act]], also known as the Russia sanctions bill which was signed into law by [[Barack Obama]] in an attempt to cripple the Russian Federation, Russia has been accused of employing driven back into competition with the United States [[Democratic partymilitary-industrial complex]] tactic of illegal surveillanceIt has provided arms and materiel to various communist groups, harassmentincluding [[Angola]], investigationand has voiced a desire to reconnect with Latin America shortly before the FSLN regained power in Nicaragua and has supported [[Nicaragua]] via foreign aid, arrestshipping tanks, and jailing political opponents and dissidentseven posting a GLONASS tracking station on the Caribbean coast, ostensibly as agents alongside similar arming of North Korea.<ref>https://westernfreepress.com/is-vladimir-putin-a foreign power or domestic terrorists-communist/</ref><ref>https://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/12/is-vladimir-putin-a-communist/</ref> Putin is a close ally of the [[Venezuela]]'s Marxist Dictator [[Nicolás Maduro]] which he defends internationally.<ref>https://www.dw.com/es/la-alianza-estrat%C3%A9gica-de-maduro-y-putin/a-46618225</ref><ref>https://www.infobae.com/america/venezuela/2019/06/06/vladimir-putin-volvio-a-respaldar-a-maduro-y-dijo-que-sus-asesores-militares-cumpliran-las-obligaciones-de-rusia-en-venezuela/</ref> He also indicated that he still keeps his KGB card while citing his contemporaries within the KGB had discarded theirs after the USSR's fall.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/putin-his-communist-party-membership-card-i-still-keep-it-home</ref>
Learning from === Views on Islam ===In January 2018 Putin said that "[t]raditional Islam is an integral part of the mistakes Russian cultural code". He also vowed to support Islamic religious education.<ref>https://themoscowtimes.com/news/putin-calls-for-revival-of USSR -islamic-education-in -russia-60276</ref> Putin has openly endorsed the Eastern Blocright of the Chechen people to cultural hegemony in the Chechen Federated Republic of the Russian Federation under [[Ramzan Kadyrov]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/03/26/putin-insists-on-russian-law-in-chechnya-while-supporting-muslim-president/</ref> Kadyrov has de facto established Islamic rule in the region and was condemned by the international community for slaughtering gay citizens.<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/chechnya-ramzan-kadyrov-gay-citizens-massacre-chechen-leader-do-not-exist-russia-vladimir-putin-a7675906.html</ref> Chechen authorities have imposed a compulsory Islamic dress code for women.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-12705300</ref> ==Foreign relations==Putin had increased Russia's stature in international affairs despite its underrated economic position.<ref>Seib, he made clear that taking countries Gerald F. (May 6, 2019). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-punches-above-his-weight-11557150000 Putin Punches Above His Weight]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved May 7, 2019.</ref> As a result of the economic sanctions leveled against their right Putin, he was booted out of the [[World Economic Forum]].<ref>https://twitter.com/teddyfenton1/status/1498792512772784128|</ref> As of March 2022 however, Putin still maintained a [[Twitter]] account, although not very often used. According to selfKremlin press spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Putin considers it dishonest to allow staff and media consultants to script Twitter messages in his name.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/04/after-determination is counterproductive banning-trump-for-denouncing-violence-twitter-lets-putin-keep-his-account/</ref> Despite Western [[propaganda]] and drains resources[[CIA]]/[[National Endowment for Democracy]]/[[Open Society]] meddling in the internal affairs of Russia with calls for an uprising to overthrow Vladimir Putin, more than 1 million people turned out in the streets of [[Moscow]] for the 2022 [[Victory Day]] celebrations of the Immortal Regiment for which Vladimir Putin was the featured honored speaker.<ref>https://youtuvideopress.becom/v/DHIxry8WfyAKnJnf4eu</ref> The [[Islamophobic]] racist and CIA puppet, [[Alexander Navalny]] has about 0.5% name recognition inside Russia, despite US and Western propaganda that he could be an alternative stooge president of Russia controlled by [[the West]]. Navalny has since been convicted of acting as an agent of a foreign power.
===Relations with NATO===
In the face of the NATO onslaught, Putin repeatedly warned the West with the refrain of a made popular by [[Yulia Chicherina]] during the ongoing NATO-funded [[Donbas war]],<ref>https://youtu.be/HdVkbCGEyT8</ref> "we have nowhere to retreat."<ref>https://youtu.be/i0YqXRPHisE</ref> Putin told the nation in a televised address on February 24, 2022 “I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border. It is a fact that over the past thirty years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries …In response, we invariably faced either cynical [[deception]] and [[lies]] or attempts at pressure and [[blackmail]]."
===2007 Munich Security Conference speech===
{{See also|Putin 2007 Munich Security Council speech}}
Between 2000 when Vladimir Putin became the president of the Russian Federation and 2007, he was wined and dined, glad-handed by the rich and famous, praised by [[George W. Bush]] and greeted with decorous respect by the [[British royal family]]. That all changed with President Putin's address to the [[Western alliance|western political elite]] on February 10, 2007 at the 43rd Munich Security Conference.<ref>[https://youtu.be/Jg_75wla-nE Putin's famous historic Munich speech in 2007]. English voice over.</ref> Putin told the gathering that Russia would cooperate with the [[Western alliance|Western powers]] on areas of mutual interest such as [[nuclear proliferation]] and international [[terrorism]]. The offer of cooperation fell on deaf ears.
Putin pointed out that the Western powers, through their [[regime change]] [[war]]s had destabilized the world and created an atmosphere of extreme mistrust and anxiety concerning the idea that [[the West]] now had virtual ''carte blanche''' to do what it liked anywhere it liked and at any time it liked. Putin explained with utmost clarity that Russia would not be lending itself to the Western project to dominate all other people of the planet, while still acting responsibly to assist where mutual interests were involved. Russia was going to remain an independent, [[sovereign]] nation and make her own decisions. This was anathema to the Western ruling class who, after [[9/11]], assumed the whole world would back them, no questions asked. Thus, the tables were turned against Vladimir Putin.
===Relations with the EU===
Despite EU sanctions, Russia under cooperation between Putin and [[German]] Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]] continued expanding economically into Western Europe.<ref>Strobel, Warren P. (March 11, 2019). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-economic-clout-in-europe-grows-despite-sanctions-study-says-11552333028 Russia’s Economic Clout in Europe Grows Despite Sanctions, Study Says]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved March 11, 2019.</ref>
===Relations with Ukraine===
In September of 2023 Putin said of Ukraine:
{{quotebox-float|“I think it’s important to repeat that Western handlers placed at the head of modern Ukraine an ethnic [[Jew]], a man of Jewish background, with Jewish roots – in this way, in my opinion, covering up the anti-human basis of the current Ukrainian state...That makes the entire situation so highly disgusting, to have an ethnic Jew mask the glorification of [[Nazism]] and those who carried out the [[Holocaust]] in Ukraine at the time, exterminating 1.5 million people...Ordinary [[Israel]]i citizens have figured this out the best...Just look at what they say online...When you look at actual archival documents, the blood in your veins simply freezes, it is impossible to look at it without tears, and this needs to be pulled out and shown...Who are the current authorities glorifying?...These anti-humans are putting bloody killers on a pedestal, and carry banners with their portraits as they march down the main streets of their cities”.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/bbSU2NuG3ApG/</ref>}}
===Relations with the United States===
In 2016, Vladimir Putin said about the United States' openness, its amazing achievements and American ingenuity: "I like the creativity. Creativity when it comes to tackling your country's problems. They're openness. Openness and open-mindedness. Because it allows them to unleash the inner potential of their people. And because of that America has achieved such amazing results."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6426OZFzcvM Preview: Vladimir Putin reveals what he admires about America], CBS News, 2016</ref>
===Relations under George W. Bush===
Initially relations between [[George W. Bush]] and Putin were good, with Putin lending support to Bush's war on global terror. Putin was restrained from giving much assistance outside the Russian Federation, being pre-occupied with the [[Islamist]] movements waging [[jihad]] inside his own borders.
In Bush's late second term, Putin was concerned about jihadist infiltration from [[Turkey]] and [[Syria]] through the [[Republic of Georgia]], {{fact}} and intervened. Former members of the [[Warsaw Pact]], who were more supportive of the war on terror than even the US population, then asked for deployment of missile defense systems on their territories, which the [[Bush administration]] was inclined to favor as a reward for their help. Russia considered missile defense deployment on their borders overt acts of hostility. Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, in competition to outdo each other, condemned George W. Bush and [[Condoleezza Rice]] by sidling up to the Russians and Islamists whom the [[Democrat]]s portrayed as oppressed victims of a [[globalism|global]] [[neocon]] [[conspiracy]].{{fact}}
===Relations under Barack Obama===
According to former Obama Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]], candidate Donald Trump was a Putin asset - a lie which gained widespread [[liberal media]] circulation in the United States perpetrated by paid [[FBI]] informants and other [[subversive]] elements of the [[Democratic party]] working in the United States [[civil service system]].
[[Obama]] refused to attend the Winter Olympic games held in Russia in 2014.
====Obama/Biden Maidan coup====
{{See also|Maidan coup}}
[[File:Revolution of Dignity.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Russian victims of the Obama-backed "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/1XFO5</ref>]]
Putin is seen as an antagonist by [[liberal]]s in the West, who are angry about their inability to push the [[homosexual agenda]] and pro-[[abortion]] policies on Russia. Putin views [[NATO enlargement ]] by absorbing former Soviet client states as a potential threat to the Russian Federation. Putin has proposed a policy of "Findlandization", i.e., making permanently neutral the Ukraine and Georgia and not incorporating them into NATO under the US's Partners for Peace program. Putin's alleged rigged election system, nuclear energy contracts and military alliance with Iran have heightened tensions. According to [[mainstream media]], the decline of [[human rights]] in Russia has been dramatic; for example, Russian riot police beat a number of protesters and journalists at an anti-Putin rally at Pushkin Square in Moscow,<ref name="The Economist, April 21, 2007">''The Economist'', April 21, 2007</ref> and Putin rigged national elections for his party <ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSL03585550._CH_.2400</ref>
Putin has even exercised power over the Russian supreme court. Justice Vladimir Yaroslavtsev was forced to resign after warning that Russian security agencies now control the country as they did in Soviet times and expressing alarm over their lack of accountability. Justice Anatoly Kononov was likewise forced out after defending Yaroslavtsev.<ref>[http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2009/12/are_you_an_independent_russian_judge_youre_fired.htm ''Are You An Independent Russian Judge? You're Fired'', RobertAmsterdam.com]</ref>
Despite these negatives – or perhaps because of the strong hand they reveal – Putin remains popular in Russia.<ref>http://www.levada.ru/prezident.html Putin's Approval Ratings</ref> Since coming to power, Putin has expanded Russia's economy and reduced inflation. The majority of Russians are relatively uninterested in politics outside of issues affecting their personal prosperity,<ref name="The Economist, April 21, 2007"/> and journalist [[Anna Politkovskaya]] argued that the Russian people, as a whole, have been willing to tolerate violence in the name of "comfort and peace and quiet".<ref>Politkovskaya, Anna. Putin's Russia. London: Harvill Press, 2004</ref>
===="Do you even understand what you have done?" and "zones of chaos" speech====
On September 28, 2015 President Putin spoke at the opening of the United Nations session on the Obama/Biden regime's "[[Arab Spring]]" [[color revolution]]s and the creation and funding of the [[Islamic State]] terror regime, and a "zone of chaos", as he referenced it, throughout the [[Middle East]] and across [[North Africa]]:
{{quotebox-float|"You can not play and manipulate words. Each term must have uniformly understood criteria. No one is obliged to adapt to a single model, which is considered to be the only one by someone. The export of social experiments often led not to progress, but to degradation. Export revolutions, which now someone calls democratic, continues....Human rights are no longer put into anything. I want to appeal to those who brought the situation to this: do you even understand what you have done ?! This led to the formation of anarchy zones filled by [[extremist]]s and [[terrorist]]s, including ISIS. But after all, ISIS did not arise out of nowhere. Many militants are former [[Iraq]]i military personnel who were literally thrown out of service after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. And also - [[Libya]]ns, residents of the country where the [[coup d'etat]] took place, recruited by [[ISIL]]. In addition, they are members of the so-called [[Syria]]n opposition - they are armed, trained, then they are transferred to ISIS. Terrorist organizations emerged as a weapon against undesirable regimes. It aims to dominate the Islamic world and beyond."}}
===Relations under Donald Trump===
{{See also|Russiagate}}
During the [[2016 Presidential election]], Obama [[CIA]] director [[John Brennan]] invented a fake narrative that he had received information from foreign intelligence sharing programs that associates of Donald Trump were meeting and taking money from Russian operatives. Brennan passed the fake narrative to [[James Comey]] who began counterintelligence surveillance on [[Paul Manafort]] and others in the Trump orbit.
[[File:Brennan-1984-620x336 (1).jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[John Brennan]] as Big Brother in a 2019 rendition ''[[meme]]'' during [[Deep State coup 2.0]].<ref>https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/11/16/toxic-john-brennan-sends-message-president-trump-may-downfall-swift/</ref>]]
The underpinnings of Brennan's [[fake news]] narrative read something like this:
{{quotebox-float|"CIA Dir. John Brennan received information from British GCHQ intelligence as part of an allegedly "routine" intelligence sharing agreement about Trump associates' business dealings in Russia.<ref>https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/interview-richard-dearlove-europe-intelligence-mi6</ref> The information is said to have originated with Estonian intelligence. [[Estonia]] is requesting a missile defence system at this time,<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/b9453544-228c-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d</ref><ref>http://linkis.com/atlanticcouncil.org/fAWKh</ref> while Trump adviser [[Newt Gingrich]] refers to the country of 1.3 million inhabitants as a 'suburb of St. Petersberg', which has 5.3 million inhabitants. Gingrich, rumoured to be on the short list for Secretary of State, says he doubts American leaders would risk [[nuclear war]] over Putin's actions in the region.<br>Allegedly, the information that triggered Brennan to act was a tape-recorded conversation that mentioned money from the Kremlin to the Trump Campaign."}} In actuality, John Brennan received nothing from UK intelligence.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/22/nunes-interview-no-official-intelligence-used-problems-for-brennan/ </ref> Brennan's fake narrative became the basis of the [[Trump-Russia hoax]], taken as gospel by [[leftist]]s and the [[mainstream media]]. Brennan shared his invented narrative with [[DNI [[James Clapper]] and disgraced [[FBI]] director [[Jimmy the Weasel Comey]] to form a Joint Counter-Intelligence Task Force.<ref>''NYT'', 1/19/17</ref>
President [[Donald Trump]] accused Putin of taking [[Crimea]] by force and asked whether Obama was too soft on Russia.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-russia-latest-tweet-accuse-crimea-obama-too-soft-distance-campaign-team-white-house-a7581511.html Donald Trump accuses Russia of taking Crimea by force in attempt to distance himself from campaign allegations]</ref> In March 2017 the US department of state strongly condemned the arrests of hundreds of protesters against Vladimir Putin's government.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/26/hundreds-arrested-mass-protests-against-vladimir-putins-government/ Washington condemns arrests of hundreds of protesters against Vladimir Putin's government]</ref> The US Secretary of State [[Rex Tillerson]] said that US sanctions against Russia will remain in place until Moscow "reverses the actions" it has taken in Ukraine.<ref>[https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/31/politics/rex-tillerson-russia-ukraine/ Tillerson: US to maintain Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia until Crimea is returned]</ref>
In response to the April, 4 chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun in [[Syria]], President Trump launched 59-Tomahawk rockets on a Syrian Air base nearby, tensions led up with Russia, Syria's ally, Putin has called that the US attack was an "illegal act of aggression",<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4389332/Russia-calls-airstrikes-Syria-act-aggression.html</ref> and answered this attack by sending a frigate to the military base in Syria.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/world/middleeast/russia-iran-us-strikes-syria.html?_r=0</ref> In April 2017 Putin explained that the US-Russia relations have gotten worse under Trump, contrary to narratives put out by the liberal mainstream media that Trump is too "soft" to Putin and is Putin's 'puppet' .<ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/228064</ref>
When President Trump met President Putin at the Helsinki Summit in June 2017, Brennan, then out of government, called the meeting "treason".<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/18/rand-paul-goes-after-john-brennan/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/03/18/nolte-threats-against-trump-made-by-john-brennan-and-samantha-power-must-be-investigated/</ref>
In December 2017 Putin warned President Trump because of his decision to move the US embassy from [[Tel Aviv]] to [[Jerusalem]] and stated that he was "deeply concerned".<ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/239041 Putin 'deeply concerned' by Trump's Jerusalem move]. ''IsraelNationalNews''. December 18, 2017. Retrieved August 31, 2018.</ref> Putin also opposed Trump's withdrawal from the [[Iran nuclear deal]] and told that Russia would continue to honor its obligations under this deal.<ref>[https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/putin-criticizes-u-s-over-iran-deal-at-summit-with-china-1.6158932 Putin Criticizes Trump Over Iran Nuclear Deal]. ''Haaretz''. June 10, 2018. Retrieved August 31, 2018.</ref>
In March 2018, Putin unveiled his revamped nuclear missile program, which was a response to the NATO challenge.<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/putin-calls-for-raising-living-standards-in-annual-address Putin Shows Off New Nuclear Weapons, Warns West to ‘Listen’]</ref>
===Relations with Joe Biden===
''[[Newsweek]]'' reported three weeks after [[Operation Denazification]] in Ukraine began that Putin's Approval Ratings in Russia rose from 60% before the operation to 71%.<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-approval-rating-poll-latest-levada-russia-1687543</ref>
During the [[Israeli-Hamas war]] of 2023 Putin remarked, "I doubt that there were deliveries of weapons from Ukraine, but I have no doubt there were leaks of weapons from Ukraine...We know the level of [corruption]] in Ukraine is very high...Why, they even sell weapons to Russia, and if they can sell them to Russia, nothing surprises me anymore”.<ref>[https://awutar.com/news/putin-comments-on-alleged-ukrainian-footprint-of-us-weapons-in-hamas-possession/ Putin comments on alleged Ukrainian footprint of US weapons in Hamas possession], Awutar, October 14, 2023.</ref>
{{Anchor|Empire of Lies}}
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin addressed the nation and made clear the objective of the [[Special Military Operation]] in Ukraine was not [[regime change]]:
{{quotebox-float|"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 demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation. It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force."<ref name="bloomberg.com">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/full-transcript-vladimir-putin-s-televised-address-to-russia-on-ukraine-feb-24</ref>}}
====Biden & BoJo sabotage peace negotiations====
{{See also|2022 Istanbul peace negotiations}}
''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's unannounced surprise visit to Kyiv shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in [[Istanbul]]. The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the [[Minsk Accords]]. ''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in essence what Johnson told Zelensky according to sources close to the Ukrainian dictator:
[[File:Zelensky and Boris.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Zelesnky and BoJo. Boris Johnson sabotaged peace efforts between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died needlessly in the following months.]]
[[File:Volodymyr Zelensky, Justin Trudeau, and Chrystia Freeland applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the Waffen SS Galicia Division during a session of the Canadian Parliament September 24 2023.PNG|right|300|thumb|[[Volodymyr Zelensky]], [[Justin_Trudeau#Support_for_Nazism|Justin Trudeau]], and [[Chrystia Freeland]] applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the [[Waffen SS Galicia Division]] during a session of the Canadian Parliament, September 24, 2023.]]
{{quotebox-float|"if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the [[Western alliance|collective West]], which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."<ref>[https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-allies-led-uks-johnson-sabotaged-tentative-ukraine-russia-peace-deal Western Allies Led By UK's Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal... In April], Tyler Durden, SEP 01, 2022. zerohedge.com</ref>}}
Only a month after Russia was forced by innumerable actions by [[the West]] to achieve the aims of protecting the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region and the Russian Federation itself from a malevolent Ukrainian regime becoming a NATO state on its border, Russia initiated peace negotiations. These bore fruit in March 2022 when significant progress was announced from Istanbul where the talks between the two sides were being held. Russia removed its troops from around the capital Kiev, sent there with the goal, not of conquest, but of bringing the [[Kiev regime]] to its senses and to negotiate a peaceful outcome. This avenue toward a peaceful resolution of all areas of concern was swiftly blocked via a visit to Kiev by then British prime minister Boris Johnson. This one act condemned upwards of half a million Ukrainians to their deaths and the potential destruction of Ukraine as a viable state.<ref>[https://aearnur.substack.com/p/in-ukraine-the-western-powers-have IN UKRAINE THE WESTERN POWERS HAVE CREATED A POISONOUS WEB OF LIES], AEARNUR, NOV 11, 2023. aearnur.substack.com</ref>
The sudden failure of the Istanbul agreement led to the immediate influx of mass amounts of the latest U.S. gear such as [[HIMAR]]s. Zelensky was secretly promised unlimited funding and military support as bait. Stuck between the path of peace or the chance to go down in history as the one man who could do what [[Genghis Khan]], [[Napoleon]], and [[Hitler]] could not do. Zelensky chose to put his faith in NATO’s invincibility. Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko confirmed what happened:
{{quotebox-float|"I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March. A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: We simply ditched the Russians in March. He boasted about it... Friends, I know them all personally.
I appeal to Ukrainians. You are ruled by [[sociopath]]s who do not understand the consequences".<ref>[https://twitter.com/Andromeda11711/status/1670500664403951616 Andromeda11711 tweet, Jun 18, 2023:]<small>💥 "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March."
Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on the Istanbul peace treaty: "A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: 'We just got rid of the Russians in March. He bragged about it... Friends, I know them all personally. They are ruled by sociopaths. They don't understand the consequences.
Yesterday, Putin gave the Kiev regime a real knockout blow.
Imagine Zelensky beating his chest and assuring the Ukrainians that there are no agreements with Russia. That's exactly why the Bucha fake was staged: the Kiev regime needed to show that the Russians hadn't left on their own, but that the Kiev region had supposedly been liberated by the Ukrainian military. The provocation in Bucha was necessary to falsify the reason for the rejection of the agreements by making a fuss in the Western media.
Britain, China, the USA, Turkey, France and Belarus were listed as security guarantors for Ukraine in the Istanbul Treaty, which Ukraine did not want to fulfil. Of course, Zelensky was forbidden by Washington and London to comply, but in this situation it does not matter, because it was Ukraine that violated the treaty.
Yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin completely destroys the myth of Ukraine's independence in decision-making and clearly shows the people of Ukraine what Zelensky got them into: he had an opportunity to avoid a disaster.
There would have been no deaths or destruction. A viable Ukrainian economy would have been preserved. No one would have interfered with Ukraine's "independence"! But it was the Kiev regime that dragged Ukraine into a major war, and it can no longer stop what is happening.
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====Partial mobilization====
But I would like to tell them: look, please forgive me, to the [[Holy Scripture]]s – the main texts of all of the world’s religions. Everything is explained there, including that a family is the union of a [[man]] and a [[woman]]. But even these holy texts are now being questioned. The [[Anglican Church]], for example, now plans, and for now only plans, to consider the idea of a [[gender-neutral]] God. What can we say here? “Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing”.<ref>[http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70565 Presidential Address to Federal Assembly], February 21, 2023.</ref>}}
=== Views =Remarks on abortion the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive====On July 21, 2023 at a televised National Security Council meting Putin rejects any constitutional right to commented on the much publicized [[abortion2023 Spring/Summer Ukrainian counteroffensive]]:{{quotebox-float|"People in Ukraine are asking a legitimate question more often: for what, as exists in for the United Statessake of whose selfish interests, but is not ready to ban abortion from [[Russia]] either. Instead, Putin has supported are their relatives and enforced [[pro-life]] laws in Russian which would be invalidated by [[pro-abortion]] courts in the United Statesfriends dying. In 2017Gradually, he said that he will allow societal (including church) views to guide him on the issue:<ref>[http://fortuneslowly, but clarity comes.com/2017/12/14/vladimir-putin-russia-abortion-pro-choice-press-conference/ An article biased in favor of [[abortion]] but useful for its quotations]</ref>
:“In We can see the modern worldpublic opinion changing in Europe, too. Both the decision Europeans and European elites see that support for Ukraine is up to the woman herself,” Putin saidin fact, a dead end, an empty, endless waste of money and indicated that additional pro-life proposals “must be carefuleffort, considered and based on the general mood in society and fact, serving someone else’s interests, which are far from European: the moral and ethical norms that have developed in societyinterests of the overseas global hegemon, which benefits from the weakening of Europe. The endless prolongation of the Ukrainian conflict is also beneficial to it.”
Putin's "Judging by the decision" actual state of affairs, this is an ambiguous phrase that could include the decision to have the pregnancy in the first placeexactly what today’s US ruling elites are doing. AlsoAnyways, Putin this is very pro-[[Russia]] and if thinks abortion is lowering the birth rate logic they follow. It is largely questionable whether such a policy is in line with the American people’s true, vital interests; this is a harmful wayrhetorical question, then he could abolish and it based on national interestsis up to them to decide.
===Views However, massive efforts are being taken to stoke the fire of war – including by exploiting the ambitions of certain East European leaders, who have long turned their hatred for Russia and Russophobia into their key export commodity and a tool of their domestic policy. And now they want to capitalise on wokism===the Ukrainian tragedy.
Putin told the Valdai Club in October 2021In this regard,<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/538121-putin-children-swap-gender-monstrous/</ref>[[File:Putin popularity.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Vladimir Putin's Popularity rating rose I cannot refrain from commenting on what has just been said and on media reports that have come out about plans to 83% during establish some sort of the Russiaso-Ukraine war.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russiacalled Polish-ukraineLithuanian-latest-news-2022-03-30/card/putin-s-approval-rating-jumps-after-invasion-poll-shows-fm8f4uSdiVfTxORQOE0v</ref>]]{{quotebox-float|"We see with bemusement the process unfolding in countries that have grown accustomed to viewing themselves as the flagships of [[Progressive|progress]]Ukrainian unit. Of course it's none This is not about a group of our business what is happening - the social mercenaries – there are plenty of them there and cultural shocks that they are happening being destroyed – but about a well-organised, equipped regular military unit to be used for operations in some Western countries. Some believe that aggressive blotting out of whole pages of your own historyUkraine, and the requirement including to renounce allegedly ensure the traditional interpretation security of such basic values as mothertoday’s Western Ukraine – actually, fatherto call things by their true name, family, and for the distinction between sexes are a milestone towards a renewal subsequent occupation of societythese territories...we have a different point of view. We believeThe outlook is clear: in the event Polish forces enter, at least the overwhelming majority of Russian societysay, [[Lvov]] or other Ukrainian territories, they will stay there, that we need to rely on our own spiritual values and our historical traditionsthey will stay there for good.
On the culture of our multi-ethnic nation, the proponents of so-called 'social progress' believe that they are bringing a new consciousness to humanity. Something that is [[political correctness|more correct]]...The recipes they come up with are And we will actually see nothing new. Paradoxical as it may seemJust to remind you, following WWI, but this is something we saw in Russia. It happened in our country before and after the [[October Revolution|1917 Revolution]]. The [[Bolshevik]]s followed the dogmas defeat of [[Marx]] Germany and its allies, Polish units occupied Lvov and [[Engels]]. And they also declared adjacent territories that they were going to change the traditional lifestyle, the political, the economic lifestyle, as well as the very notion had been part of [[morality]], the basic principles. Fully, healthy society they were trying to destroy, centuryAustria-long values. Revisiting the relationship between people. They were encouraging informing on one's own beloved and families. It was hailed as "the March of Progress" and it was very [[Popular Front|popular across the worldHungary]]. And it was supported by many.
As we see it is happening right now. IncidentallyWith its actions incited by the West, Poland took advantage of the Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant tragedy of other opinions different from their own. I think this should remind you of something that is happening...it is with puzzlement that we see the practices Civil War in Russia used to have, and that we left behindannexed certain historical Russian provinces... The fight for equality and against discrimination turns into an aggressive dogmatism on In dire straits, our country had to sign the brink Treaty of absurdity. When great authors of the past such as [[Shakespeare]] are no longer taught Riga inschools 1921 and universities because they did not understand recognise the importance annexation of gender or raceits territories.
And Even earlier, back in 1920, Poland captured part of [[HollywoodLithuania]]. There are leaflets reminding what you should do in – the films - how many personalities and actors you've gotVilnius region, what kind of color, what sex, and sometimes it's even stricter than what a territory surrounding the Department of Propaganda of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee did. And the fight against racism, which is a lofty goal, turns into present-day [[cancel cultureVilnius]] and reverse discrimination. Racism in reverse. It tears people apart. Whereas the true fighters for [[civil rights]], So they were trying to eliminate those differences....[[Martin Luther King]] said "I have a dream claimed that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by fought together with the color of their skinLithuanians against so-called Russian imperialism, but by the content then immediately snatched a piece of land from their character." That is a true value. ...in Russia, most of our Republics simply do not care what skin color you have. He or she, that's not that important, because each and every one of us is a human being. That's neighbour as soon as the most important thingopportunity presented itself.
The discussion about the rights of men and women has turned into a total phantasmagoria in a number of Western countries...Those who risk saying that men and women still exist, and that this As is a biological factwell known, are virtually ostracized...And this is not new...In Poland also took part in the 1920s, Soviet culture-warriors invented a so-called ‘partition of [[newspeakCzechoslovakia]] following the [[Munich Agreement]] with [[Adolf Hitler]]’, believing that in this way they would create a new sense of consciousness and redefine people’s values...This is not to mention things that are simply monstrous1938, like when children are taught from an early age that a boy can easily become a girl and vice versa...In fact, they are indoctrinating them into the alleged choices that are supposedly available to everyone – removing parents from the equation and forcing the child to make decisions that can ruin their lives...This is borderline crime against humanity - all under the guise of "progress."<ref>https://www.youtubeby fully occupying Cieszyn [[Silesia]].com/watch?v=g6sIZ8-C1vw</ref>}}
=== Views on communism In the 1920-1930s, Poland’s Eastern Borderlands (Kresy) – a territory that comprises present-day Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and part of Lithuania – witnessed a tough policy of Polonisation and assimilation of local residents, with efforts to suppress local culture and the Soviet Union ===[[File:Solzhenitsyn and Putin.jpgOrthodox Church|right|300px|thumb|Russian President Vladimir Putin presents [[human rightsOrthodoxy]] activist [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] with an award. Solzhenitsyn set in motion the movement that toppled Soviet communism.]]Putin famously said, "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."<ref>https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/vladimir_putin_452527</ref>
Putin has before called the [[Bolshevik]]s traitors for Russia's defeat in the First World War.<ref>https://www.rt.com/politics/putin-accuses-bolsheviks-treason-877/</ref> However, he has I would also expressed that "[he] liked Communist and socialist ideas very much and [he] like[s] them stillto remind you what Poland’s aggressive policy led to." and compared It led to the Soviet code national tragedy of conduct 1939, when Poland’s Western allies threw it to the [[Bible]]German wolf, the German military machine.<ref>http://wwwPoland actually lost its independence and statehood, which were only restored thanks in a large measure to the Soviet Union.newsweek.com/russias-putin-says-he-always-liked-communist-socialist-ideas-419289</ref><ref>https://pjmedia.com/faith/tyler-o-neil/2018/01/17/putin-soviet-communism-is-very-similar-to-christianity-party-rules-are-a-bible-excerpt-n101328</ref> Putin It was also has compared communism with Christianity.<ref>Newman, Alex (January 16, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/28051-communism-very-similar-thanks to-christianity-putin-claims Communism “Very Similar” to Christianity, Putin Claims]. ''The New American''. Retrieved January 17, 2018.</ref> Putin has been accused by Western media of embracing the tactics of Soviet dictator [[Joseph Stalin]].<ref>https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-stalin-model-20150611-story.html</ref> In addition, he implies in an interview with [[Larry King]] dated September 8, 2000 Union and thanks to Stalin’s position that his Christianity isn't actually sincere by stating in Russian that he "believes Poland acquired substantial territory in the power of man" or "I believe in human beings." Though a few years laterwest, his faith became more genuineGerman territory.<ref>https://www.quora.com/Is-Vladimir-Putin-personally-religious</ref> Furthermore, around October 2017, he hosted the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students Communist event and gave It is a speech fact that strongly implied that he adhered to CommunismPoland’s western lands are a gift from Stalin.<ref>http://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/10/non-communist-putin-opens-major-international-communist-youth-festival/</ref><ref>http://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/07/russia-to-host-major-international-communist-youth-festival-on-putins-instructions/</ref>
Since passage of Sen. Have our [[John McCainWarsaw]]'s [[Magnitsky Act]], also known as the Russia sanctions bill which was signed into law by [[Barack Obama]] in an attempt to cripple the Russian Federation, Russia has been driven back into competition with the [[military-industrial complex]] It has provided arms and materiel to various communist groups, including [[Angola]], and has voiced a desire to reconnect with Latin America shortly before the FSLN regained power in Nicaragua and has supported [[Nicaragua]] via foreign aid, shipping tanks, and even posting a GLONASS tracking station on the Caribbean coast, alongside similar arming of North Korea.<ref>https://westernfreepress.com/is-vladimir-putin-a-communist/</ref><ref>https://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/12/is-vladimir-putin-a-communist/</ref> Putin is a close ally of the [[Venezuela]]'s Marxist Dictator [[Nicolás Maduro]] which he defends internationally.<ref>https://www.dw.com/es/la-alianza-estrat%C3%A9gica-de-maduro-y-putin/a-46618225</ref><ref>https://www.infobae.com/america/venezuela/2019/06/06/vladimir-putin-volvio-a-respaldar-a-maduro-y-dijo-que-sus-asesores-militares-cumpliran-las-obligaciones-de-rusia-en-venezuela/</ref> He also indicated that he still keeps his KGB card while citing his contemporaries within the KGB had discarded theirs after the USSR's fall.<ref>https://www.cnsnewsfriends forgotten this? We will remind them.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/putin-his-communist-party-membership-card-i-still-keep-it-home</ref>
=== Views on Islam ===In January 2018 Putin said Today we see that "[t]raditional Islam is an integral part of the Russian cultural code". He also vowed regime in Kiev is ready to support Islamic religious education.<ref>https://themoscowtimesgo to any length to save its treacherous hide and to prolong its existence.com/news/putin-calls-They do not care for-revival-the people of-islamic-education-in-russia-60276</ref>Ukraine or Ukrainian sovereignty or national interests.
Putin has openly endorsed They are ready to sell anything, including people and land, just like their ideological forefathers led by Petlyura, who signed the right of so-called secret conventions with Poland in 1920 under which they ceded Galicia and Western Volhynia to Poland in return for military support. Traitors like them are ready now to open the Chechen people gate to cultural hegemony their foreign handlers and to sell Ukraine again. As for the Polish leaders, they probably hope to form a coalition under the NATO umbrella in order to directly intervene in the conflict in Ukraine and to bite off as much as possible, to “regain,” as they see it, their historical territories, that is, modern-day Western Ukraine. It is also common knowledge that they dream about Belarusian land. Regarding the Chechen Federated Republic policy of the Ukrainian regime, it is none of our business. If they want to relinquish or sell off something in order to pay their bosses, as traitors usually do, that’s their business. We will not interfere. But Belarus is part of the Union State, and launching an aggression against Belarus would mean launching an aggression against the Russian Federation under [[Ramzan Kadyrov]]. We will respond to that with all the resources available to us. The Polish authorities, who are nurturing their revanchist ambitions, hide the truth from their people. The truth is that the Ukrainian cannon fodder is no longer enough for the West. That is why it is planning to use other expendables – Poles, Lithuanians and everyone else they do not care about. I can tell you that this is an extremely dangerous game, and the authors of such plans should think about the consequences.<ref>https://www.breitbartsonar21.com/national-security/2016/03/26/putin-insistsissues-onstark-russianwarning-lawto-inpoland-chechnya-while-supportingand-muslim-presidentnato/</ref> Kadyrov has de facto established Islamic rule }} ====Remarks on the 80th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of Donbas from Nazism====On September 8, 2023, President Putin remarked in a nationwide address:{{quotebox-float|"This day, 80 years ago, the region legendary, unconquered Donbass - a century-old stronghold of Russia, a land of hard workers, warriors, a rich and generous region - was condemned by liberated from the international community Nazi invaders...Its resources were of colossal importance to the enemy, to seize them was one of the goals of the German attack on the Soviet Union...And the Nazis did everything to keep the Donetsk Steppes for slaughtering gay citizensthemselves, to force people to work for the war machine of the [[Third Reich]].<ref>https://www.independent.coThe importance of Donbass was understood in those years even in [[Berlin]].uk/news/world/europe/chechnya-ramzan-kadyrov-gay-citizens-massacre-chechen-leader-do-..Its capture was one of the main goals of [[Nazi Germany]]'s attack on the Soviet Union in 1941...The new owners of this region, having occupied it, tried with all their might to keep Donbass in their hands and force its inhabitants to work for themselves, for their Armed Forces...But here the Nazis met powerful and desperate resistance...It could not-exist-russia-vladimir-putin-a7675906be broken during the approximately 700 days that the occupation lasted.html</ref> Chechen authorities have imposed a compulsory Islamic dresscode ..During this time, many residents of Donbass died here...And these were not only partisans and underground fighters, but also civilians, including children...As during the [[Great Patriotic War]], the residents of [[Donbas war|Donbass nine years ago in 2014]], again fought back against the revival of [[Nazism]]”.}} ==== 2024 U.S. presidential endorsement ====In February 2024, Putin endorsed the disputed incumbent [[Joe Biden]] for womenthe upcoming 2024 United States presidential election.<ref>[https://www.bbcfoxnews.com/news/world/putin-europeclaims-12705300prefers-more-predictable-biden-trump Putin claims he prefers 'more predictable' Biden over Trump]</ref> ==Anti-Putinism==Anti-Putinism is a [[neoconservative]] movement aimed at [[demonizing]] the Russian leader and promoting [[globalism]] and the [[military industrial complex]].
==Criticism==
According to Western [[propaganda]] sources, "Putin's Russia is an authoritarian system, with restricted capitalism, a rubber stamp parliament, compliant media, imprisoned or exiled oligarchs, harassed NGOs, marginalized pro-Western democratic parties, and a foreign policy based on confronting [[Western]] hypocrisy, double standards, and cultural decadence, all based on money from oil and gas."<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2016/09/20/putin-brings-back-the-kgb-as-russia-moves-from-authoritarian-to-totalitarian/#48e4a416398a</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32860526]</ref> Corporate media television host Sean Hannity claims that Putin is a thug and a "bad actor" who cannot be trusted.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2018/02/16/hannity-examining-key-points-from-russian-indictments.html Hannity: Examining key points from Russian indictments]</ref>
Putin critics allege many political opponents have been "[[Jeffrey Epstein|Epsteined]]" or [[Arkancide]]d. However many of his countrymen credit Putin with cleaning up [[corruption]], particularly among [[Western alliance|Western]] [[oligarch]]s and looters. [[Robert Kraft]], an [[NFL]] plantation master<ref>https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10016725-colin-kaepernick-compares-nfl-combine-to-slavery-in-colin-in-black-and-white</ref> who was arrested on a morals charge in [[Florida]], accused Putin of stealing Kraft's [[Super Bowl]] ring. Putin responded that Kraft gave it to him as a gift.
According to the [[Biden regime]], Vladimir Putin sabotaged the production of baby milk formula in the [[United States]] in 2021, more than year in advance of the US and EU imposed [[Russian sanctions]].<ref>https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/14/2097914/--All-roads-lead-to-Putin-even-if-baby-formula-might-be-more-important-than-bombs</ref>
==Quotes==
*"Anyone “I think all sober-minded people who doesn't regret really are involved in [[politics]] understand that the passing idea of a Russian threat to, for example, the Soviet Union has no heart[[Baltics]] is complete madness. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains Are we really about to fight [[NATO]]? How many people are there in the NATO countries? About 600 million, correct? There are 146 million people in Russia."<ref>Parfitt, Tom (December 23 Yes, 2007)we're the biggest nuclear power. But do you really think that we're about to conquer the Baltics using [https://www[nuclear weapons]]? What is this madness?” *“Look at what they're doing with their own people.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/23/russia.tomparfitt Spy who came in from It is all about the colddestruction of the family, of cultural and national identity, perversion and abuse of children, including [[pedophilia]], all of which are declared normal in their life”. *"Parent number one'and 'The Guardianparent number two': 'birth parent' instead of '[[mother]]', banning the use of the phrase 'breast milk' and replacing it with 'human milk' so that people who are insecure about their [[gender]] will not be upset. Retrieved September 15..This is nothing new...In the 1920s the Soviet so-called ''kulturträgers'' also invented the so-called ‘[[newspeak]]’, 2018proposing that in this way they could create a new consciousness and change society's values”.<ref>https://loveexpands.com/quotes/vladimir-putin-1324586/</ref>
*“Either they don't understand what they are doing to their own country, in which case they are simply stupid, or they understand everything in which case they are dangerous and corrupt.”<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-putin/putin-offers-transcript-to-prove-trump-did-not-pass-russia-secrets-idUSKCN18D1EA</ref>
*“I think all sober-minded people who really are involved in politics understand that the idea of a Russian threat to, for example, the Baltics "[[Berlusconi]] is complete madnessbeing tried because he lives with women. Are we really about to fight NATO? How many people are there in the NATO countries? About 600 millionIf he were [[homosexual]], correct? There are 146 million people in Russiano one would lift a finger against him. Yes, we're the biggest nuclear power"<ref>https://www. But do you really think that we're about to conquer the Baltics using nuclear weapons? What is this madness?”azquotes.com/quote/1202445</ref>
*If nukes head towards Russia we are going to Paradise"There is also the so-called [[liberal]] idea, but they won't which has outlived its purpose. Our [[Western alliance|Western]] partners have time to repentadmitted that some elements of the liberal idea, such as [[multiculturalism]], are no longer tenable."<ref>https://youtuwww.beft.com/video/YeNwyVG8Egsa49cfa25-610e-438c-b11d-5dac19619e08</ref>
*"Hitler tried Russia’s ethnic and cultural diversity is an all-conquering force that many people outside the country fail to destroy grasp...Our nation was built on the value of multinational harmony...It’s the most important foundation of our consolidation, which only becomes stronger in the face of foreign pressure and threats...Our adversaries are people with neocolonial thinking, dimwits in fact, who do not understand that this diversity makes us stronger...When they talk about us, they think about themselves and imagine that we are like them...They say Russiahas to be partitioned into dozens of small states. Everyone needs ..The goal is clear – to remember how that endedsubjugate them, exploit them and use them for profit...But attempts by these morons to sow discord within Russia are doomed to failure."”
*"If you try I have the impression – and this is particularly true for European countries – that these former colonial powers are still living in the paradigm of colonial philosophy, and they are used to bite Russialiving at the expense of others. They still fail to get rid of this paradigm in their daily policies. But it is time to draw certain conclusions and act differently, we'll knock your teeth outin a more civilised manner."- September 16, 2022.<ref>http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/press_conferences/69366</ref>
*"[[Berlusconi]] is being tried because he lives with womenIt’s probably possible to falsify anything. If he ..Just like the previous elections in the United States were homosexualfalsified through voting by mail...Well, no one would lift a finger against himit’s clear what voting by mail is."<ref>https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1202445</ref>They bought ballots for $10, wrote them in, and without any supervision from observers, tossed them into mailboxes...And there you go."
*"There is also the so-called [[liberal]] idea, which “Washington has outlived a habit of discarding previous agreements depending on political whims, as seen with its purposeexit from the multilateral agreement on the Iranian nuclear program. Our Western partners have admitted that some elements of ..The Ukraine conflict is rooted in the liberal idea, such same problem...We were told as [[multiculturalism]]far back as 1991 – by the then-US administration – that NATO would not expand further east...Since then, are no longer tenablethere have been five waves of NATO expansion."<ref>https://www.ft.com/video/a49cfa25-610e-438c-b11d-5dac19619e08</ref>How can we agree on anything if every new administration starts from scratch?”.
*"Parent number one' and 'parent number two'Let me repeat: 'birth parent' instead of 'mother'we did not start the military activities, banning the use of the phrase 'breast milk' and replacing it with 'human milk' so that people who we are insecure about their gender will not be upsettrying to end them...This is nothing newThey started the war...In the 1920s the Soviet so-called ''kulturträgers'' also invented the so-called ‘[[newspeak]]’For eight years, proposing that in this way they could create war continued – a new consciousness war to exterminate people who live there, who feel themselves related by blood to Russia and change society's values”Russian culture.<ref>https://loveexpands.com/quotes/vladimir-putin-1324586/</ref>.How long were we supposed to tolerate that?”
*"We all hear about the so-called ‘Putin price hike’ in the West. When I see this, I wonder who they expect would buy this stupidity – people who cannot read or write, maybe. Anyone literate enough to read would understand what What is actually happeningnow in Ukraine will never suit Russia. In Russia there will never be anything neo- Vladimir Putin, June 17, 2022Nazi."
*"First“I have many friends since childhood who are Jewish. They say that Zelensky is not a Jew, they [he is a disgrace to the West] jumped aheadJewish people...I’m not joking, and then, after cutting off Russian gas supplies, returned to everything that was reviledthis is not irony...And if you jump aheadThe current Ukrainian authorities openly celebrate Nazi figures, get cheap Russian gasmost notably [[Stepan Bandera]], and then cut off a Ukrainian nationalist who collaborated with the supply [[Third Reich]] during World War II...Out of this gas yourself and immediately switch back to everything that was previously condemned, including six million Jews killed during the [[coalHolocaust]]-fired generation, this1.5 million were from Ukraine, of coursewith Ukrainian nationalists heavily involved in mass executions...However, nobody wants to hear about Bandera being an [[anti-Semite]], because Zelensky himself is not the best option for solving global problems”a Jew. - September 5..But with his actions, 2022he provides cover for this scum.”
*"I Have we forgotten that we all live in a world that is based on biblical values? Even atheists all live in this world. We don't have the impression – and to think about this is particularly true for European countries – that these former colonial powers every day, attend church and pray, thereby showing we are still living devout Christians or Muslims or Jews. In the soul, in the paradigm of colonial philosophyheart, there must be some fundamental human rules and they moral values. In this sense, [[traditional values]] are used to living at the expense of others. They still fail to get rid more stable, is more important for millions of people than this paradigm liberal idea, which, in their daily policies. But it my opinion, is time really ceasing to draw certain conclusions and act differently, in a more civilised mannerexist." - September 16, 2022.<ref>httphttps://enyoutu.kremlin.ru/eventsbe/president/transcripts/press_conferences/69366FbY0VpyjtuI?t=4817</ref> *"We all hear about the so-called ‘Putin price hike’ in the West. When I see this, I wonder who they expect would buy this stupidity – people who cannot read or write, maybe. Anyone literate enough to read would understand what is actually happening. - Vladimir Putin, June 17, 2022.
*"The cost of food on the world market has returned to the levels of the beginning of the year, and it is currently 40 percent higher than in 2020...This is a direct consequence - without any exaggeration - of the predatory policy pursued by the world’s richest countries, which continue to actively buy food using, among other things, the printing of money, which they are constantly carrying out.”
*"Now they are persistently trying to convince you that all your difficulties are the result of some hostile actions of Russia, that you have to pay for the fight against the mythical Russian threat from your own wallet. All this is a lie. And the truth is that the current problems that millions of people in [[the West]] face are the result of many years of actions by the ruling [[elitism|elites]] of their states, their mistakes, myopia and ambitions. Well, how can this be printed in the West?”
*"First, they [the West] jumped ahead, and then, after cutting off Russian gas supplies, returned to everything that was reviled...And if you jump ahead, get cheap Russian gas, and then cut off the supply of this gas yourself and immediately switch back to everything that was previously condemned, including [[coal]]-fired generation, this, of course, is not the best option for solving global problems”. - September 5, 2022.
*"There’s a lot of noise right now about our strikes against the energy infrastructure of the neighboring country...Yes we are doing it, but who started it?...Who struck the [[Crimean bridge]]?...Who blew up the power lines of the Kursk Nuclear Power Station?...Who is not providing water to Donetsk?...Not providing water to a city of one million is an act of genocide...No one said a word about it anywhere...At all...Complete silence...Just as we make a move, do something in response...Noise and crackle start from the whole universe...This will not stop us from completing military objectives.”
*"Now they If nukes head towards Russia we are persistently trying going to convince you that all your difficulties are the result of some hostile actions of RussiaParadise, that you but they won't have time to pay for the fight against the mythical Russian threat from your own walletrepent. All this is a lie"<ref>https://youtu. And the truth is that the current problems that millions of people in [[the West]] face are the result of many years of actions by the ruling [[elitism|elites]] of their states, their mistakes, myopia and ambitions. Well, how can this be printed in the West?”/YeNwyVG8Egs</ref>
*“Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult "Who wants to predict. Whoever becomes the leader live in this sphere will become the ruler of the a world.”without Russia, anyway?
*"Let me repeat: we did not start the military activitiesIf you try to bite Russia, we are trying to end them'll knock your teeth out...They started the war...For eight years, that war continued – a war to exterminate people who live there, who feel themselves related by blood to Russia and Russian culture...How long were we supposed to tolerate that?”"
*"Russia’s ethnic and cultural diversity is an all-conquering force that many people outside the country fail Hitler tried to graspdestroy Russia.Everyone needs to remember how that ended..Our nation was built on " *"Anyone who doesn't regret the value passing of multinational harmonythe Soviet Union has no heart.Anyone who wants it restored has no brains..It’s the most important foundation of our consolidation"<ref>Parfitt, which only becomes stronger Tom (December 23, 2007). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/23/russia.tomparfitt Spy who came in from the face of foreign pressure and threatscold].''The Guardian''.Retrieved September 15, 2018.Our adversaries </ref> *"We are going to pursue terrorists everywhere. If they are people with neocolonial thinking, dimwits in factthe airport, who do not understand that this diversity makes us stronger.we will pursue them in the airport..When they talk about usAnd if we capture them in the toilet, they think about themselves and imagine that then we are like will waste themin the outhouse." *''Russia is fighting for the [[freedom]] of the whole world..They .We openly say Russia that the [[dictator]]ship of one [[hegemon]] is becoming decrepit...She has become, as they say, a [[double standard|double-dealing peddler]] and is simply dangerous to be partitioned into dozens of small statesthose around her...The goal This is already clear – to subjugate them, exploit them and use them for profitthe entire world majority...But attempts by these morons I want to sow discord within emphasize: without a sovereign, strong Russia , no lasting, stable world order is possible...It is our country, the [[Russian world]], as has happened more than once in [[history]], that has blocked the path of those who claim world domination."<ref>https://europerenaissance.com/2023/11/28/putin-said-that-russia-is-fighting-for-the-freedom-of-the-whole-world/</ref> *“Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are doomed difficult to failurepredict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”
==See also==
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://youtu.be/6PR3m0FU8UQ PUTIN Is Our Everything. Literally. Do U Want To Know What Inside Putin's Mind? Experience PUTIN AI].
*[https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/portrait-of-power/ Portrait of Power: Demystifying Vladimir Putin], by Sean McMeekin, Claremont Review of Books, summer 2022 essays.
*[https://youtu.be/abYJ9WNHndo The Roots of the Russian Deep State (or Why 5th Columnists are Expendable to their Handlers)], by Matthew Ehret, February 22, 2024
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