Putin - at a meeting with pilots in Torzhok:

This is complete nonsense - the possibility of an attack on some other countries, on Poland, the Baltic states, scares the Czechs. Just nonsense! Another way to deceive your population and extract additional costs from people, force them to bear this burden on their shoulders, that’s all.

Putin on military spending by Russia and the enemy:

Let’s take 2022, military spending, because the results for 2023 are being summed up and calculated, 2024 is too early to say. According to our data, we spent 3.5% of the country's GDP on defense spending. Let’s take data that is not ours, let’s take data from the Stockholm Peace Institute, international data, they have the following calculation: The United States spent 3.5% of GDP on defense, Russia - 4%. Let's say Israel is 4.5%. Ukraine spent 33.5% in 2022. But in absolute terms, what a difference it makes. In 2022, the United States spent, God willing, 811 billion dollars, and the Russian Federation - 72 billion. 72 and 811 - the difference is noticeable, more than ten times.

The United States spends, its defense spending is approximately 40% of global defense spending, 39% of global spending is the United States. And Russia – 3.5%. And, keeping this ratio in mind, are we going to fight with NATO or something? This is just nonsense!

Putin - about attacks on NATO airfields:

If they deliver F-16s, they talk about it, like they are training pilots, I think you understand this like no one else, better than others, this will not change the situation on the battlefield. And we will destroy their planes just as we destroy their tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment today, including multiple launch rocket systems. Of course, if they are used from airfields of third countries, they become a legitimate target for us, no matter where they are located. And the F-16s are also carriers of nuclear weapons, and we will also have to take this into account when organizing combat work.

Putin - on jingoism:

When I listen to our - there are such people everywhere, in any society - jingoistic patriots, including those who say that Russia is only for Russians, then a feeling of anxiety arises in me. Because we have 190 ethnic groups living on the territory of the country and some nationalities are represented by millions of peoples, as soon as we begin to implement these destructive thoughts about the fact that everyone else is strangers here, we will ruin the country. And the main victims will be the Russian people. Therefore, you need to treat this component very adultly, seriously, not wave your arms and wag your tongue, but think when you pronounce every word, every phrase. To think that we have one big united Motherland.

Anyone gets the feeling that the US is going to press for a hot war and prevent truce in Ukraine no matter what?

There has been some regression in China over the past few years that is worrying to me. Significantly more anti-Western and anti-LGBT sentiment (which are being bunched up together) that I’m noticing than in the 2000/2010s. Those were the times of a more liberal era.

Medvedev ditched his usual Western suit and donned a Zhongshan suit in the conference “Knowledge First” two days ago.

lmao this guy.

What is he trying to say? That Russia is a Chinese colony now?

This is just the prelude/excuse to austerity. It’s happening one way or another. Europe is truly fucked.

Russian fascist with well documented association with the neo-Nazis in the early 2000s then turned into a pro-Western liberal who opposes Putin.

Edit: 2011 NY Times profile about Navalny (CW: racism):

Liberals, meanwhile, have deep reservations about him, because he espouses Russian nationalist views. He has appeared as a speaker alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads, and once starred in a video that compares dark-skinned Caucasus militants to cockroaches. While cockroaches can be killed with a slipper, he says that in the case of humans, “I recommend a pistol.”

Norway has banned the landing of a Russian plane with a dying man on board. On a Nordwind Airlines flight from Moscow to Cuba, a person began bleeding internally due to an ulcer.

Passengers on the flight told Shot that the pilots requested permission to land at one of the nearest airports in Norway, but were refused. Afterwards, the pilots announced the plane was turning around back to Moscow. The Norwegian authorities stated that they allowed the airliner to use the country’s airspace in order to “fly back faster.”

At the time the plane landed in Moscow, the injured passenger was still conscious. He was taken away by ambulance.

Seriously Norway?!

Austerity is coming to your 🇪🇺 country in 2024:

This is the beginning of the end of EU and eurozone.

The Supreme Court of Russia upheld the claim of the Ministry of Justice to recognize the international LGBT movement as extremist: “Recognize the international public LGBT movement as an extremist organization and ban its activities on the territory of Russia. The court decision is subject to immediate execution."

Russia having a normal one again.

My fellow liberals, Mussolini wasn’t voted into power.

Mussolini was literally invited into power to “restore order” by the liberals themselves because they didn’t know how to deal with the communists taking over the country.

Mussolini’s fascism was the first successful test case of a liberal experiment to brutally crush Leninism in Europe following the Bolshevik Revolution. Hitler followed in Mussolini’s footsteps.

Don’t have the video link with me, but 3 weeks before Russia invaded, Biden said “if Russia invades, then we will put an end to Nord Stream”, a reporter then asked “how exactly?” and he said “I assure you we’ll be able to do it.”

Democrats would rather lose the election and keep the donors, than to win the election but lose the donors.

It appears that the bourgeoisie is 100% behind Israel. I have not heard of a single corporation that even bothers to both sides like they did with BLM.

Former German leader Schroeder divulges more detail on thwarted Russia-Ukraine peace deal bne intelliNews

We are getting more and more corroborating evidence that the peace deal in March-April 2022 was real, and painted US/NATO as the party behind that denied the deal from moving forward because some wanted to use the opportunity to weaken Russia.

I recommend reading the linked article because there are a lot more details in this story, but the most interesting part I want to point out is this:

According to Schroeder the deal would have included the following main aspects:

• Ukraine would abandon its Nato aspirations;
• The bans on the Russian language in Ukraine would be removed;
• Donbass would remain in Ukraine but as an autonomous region (Schroeder: "Like South Tyrol");
• The United Nations Security Council plus Germany should offer and supervise the security agreements; and
• The Crimea problem would be addressed.

Honestly this sounds like a very good deal for Ukraine considering what they are going through today. All the blood shed since can now be firmly laid on the hands on US and NATO imperialism at this point.