The Putin Thread

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
That speech is supposed to come from OUR leaders.

What are we to make of that?

Well — it could be said that Putin is now the real Leader of the Free World.

[ExomatrixTV]

• Putin Video Uploaded 7 years Ago:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WhZOi2y75SM

[Lunesoleil]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
That speech is supposed to come from OUR leaders.
What are we to make of that?

Well — it could be said that Putin is now the real Leader of the Free World.

hello Bill, what should we think of Putin ❓, thank you for your feedback

[ExomatrixTV]

Posted by Lunesoleil (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
That speech is supposed to come from OUR leaders.
What are we to make of that?

Well — it could be said that Putin is now the real Leader of the Free World.

hello Bill, what should we think of Putin ❓, thank you for your feedback

Do not assume that Bill Ryan wants to tell others "what to think" but rather he shares his perspectives/insights that are beyond the mass conditioning, and you are always responsible for your own quality of thinking/judging based upon OWN research/efforts.

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[Lunesoleil]

Given the current state of affairs, giving your opinion is often subjective.
They want us to believe that it is Putin's fault, because the system is corrupt to the root and has been for centuries.
We are more and more awakened against lies and that is not necessarily good.
Too much fear is not good either. I have the impression in the forum everyone is potentially a Troll except maybe Putin...

[Tintin]

A wonderfully articulate man, whatever your view of him may be. I have a whole ton of respect for him, and maybe a little admiration.

Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/72757

Plenary session of the United Cultures Forum

Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the 9th St Petersburg International Cultural Forum – the Forum of United Cultures.

November 17, 2023 19:35 St Petersburg



Plenary session of the United Cultures Forum. Photo: Pavel Bednyakov, RIA Novosti

Moderator of the discussion – Special Presidential Envoy for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy.

The forum’s organisers include the Government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture, and the St Petersburg city government. Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova is the head of the Organising Committee.

After the end of the plenary session, Vladimir Putin visited the halls of the eastern wing of the General Staff building that is part of the exposition complex of the State Hermitage Museum.

* * *

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, friends! Ladies and gentlemen!

I am very happy to welcome you to St Petersburg. Symbolically, this city has traditionally hosted the international cultural forum because our northern capital is a unique example of the mutual enrichment of Russian and other world cultures.

St Petersburg was created by outstanding architects from several diverse countries. It is a concentration of brilliant achievements by great writers, musicians, scientists, actors and thinkers in the broadest sense of this word. Their creative works have become an inalienable part of the cultural heritage of our world.

St Petersburg is also one of the visible incarnations of the worldwide responsiveness of the Russian people, the Russian soul that was described, among others, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It also reflects their ability to comprehend, accept and develop all the best things rather than underscore the differences, to find commonality, rise to the height of mutual spiritual enrichment and go forward together. These principles have been close to Russia and our people throughout our history. A country-civilisation, Russia has carefully kept the languages and traditions of all peoples living in it and is a unique unity of a multitude of distinctive cultures.

The experience of the millennium-old history of our country convincingly shows that cultural diversity is the greatest blessing while the interaction of cultures is one of the conditions for stable and peaceful development. After all, some of the main reasons for today’s international tensions are rooted in the claims of some forces to exclusivity, including cultural exclusivity, their disregard for the customs and spiritual values of others, a striving to subject everyone and everything to unification under their own pattern that they consider the best and most universal. This distasteful globalisation and, let me add, cultural expansionism, have led to cultural suppression and deprivation and have multiplied the potential for conflict.

We are convinced that the future belongs to free, multilinear, and diverse cultures, the broadest possible dialogue of humanitarian communities in the multipolar world that is forming today. As I understand it, the current Forum of United Cultures is intended to be a part of this dialogue. We believe that creatively-minded and enlightened individuals want to build a fair, sustainable, and secure world. We believe that this is backed by a sincere desire to improve the situation around the world in all the meanings of this word in the Russian language: the world as accord, the world as society, and the world as all humanity and the entire planet.

I am aware that you have drafted a busy programme, and understanding history through culture has become a key topic of discussion. Notably, and this is stating the obvious, archives and documentary evidence of events in the form of original sources seem to be accessible by everyone today. Well, first, not by everyone, and second, they are mostly used by specialists and professionals. Most people, however, learn about the past from books, films, theatre, paintings, and music. The truth about history and the most complex chapters of the past can undoubtedly be learned from masterpieces of world culture, including Russian, European, American, Chinese, Indian, Arab, and many other great works.

However, for those who engage in the falsification of history – unfortunately, there have always been enough of them at historical points of inflection – genuine art, so to speak, is a thorn in the side. It is in the way of these people’s efforts to distort the past in favour of their fleeting ideological or, as we often see, gender constructs, and it makes it hard for them to sow discord among people. That is why liars fabricate falsehoods in cinema, journalism, and literature.

Everything that does not fit in the mould of their historical forgeries is simply crossed out. Entire layers of history and art from Western Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America are passed under silence, as if nothing had happened, and there have recently been attempts to cancel our culture altogether. I say “attempts” because, by definition, we understand that this is impossible, but nevertheless, they are trying to cancel a culture that is based on genuine freedom and graciousness, love for humanity and spirituality. In and of itself, a policy of canceling Russia is anti-cultural, neocolonial, and racist.

But the truth is that the authors of these ideas had issues with this infamous cancellation, just like with the so-called anti-Russia sanctions, right from the very beginning. One of many examples is the enormous interest in the International Tchaikovsky Competition. The online audience exceeded 50 million people. In the modern world, canceling such things is simply not possible. It is strange that the people who are trying to do so do not understand this. By the way, of these 50 million people, more than half are residents of Europe who do not want anyone to decide for them what music to listen to, what to watch, and what to read.

Despite all the bans and sanctions, art still has no borders. It has always been that way, and it will undoubtedly be that way especially so in our time of rapid technological progress, which creates both vast opportunities and new risks. We must calculate the consequences of these fundamental tectonic processes, achievements in genetics, quantum mechanics, AI technology, and other innovation-driven areas.

As I understand it, this issue has also become a subject here at the forum, and it is certainly logical: only culture can ensure the safety and reasonability of innovation. Culture is the most natural ethical regulator of technological progress. The forum organisers suggest considering this as the basis of social development and humanism. As a carrier of national identity, traditions and the faith of our fathers, it serves as a guarantee of preserving our spiritual roots. This is extremely important both for the individual and for the country as a whole; it protects us from everything superfluous and momentary, gives us stability in the face of challenges, and serves as a moral reference point that allows us to remain human in the most difficult conditions.

The whole world was shocked by the news that the legendary ancient Arch of Triumph in Palmyra, Syria, was destroyed by terrorists, and for us the very word “Palmyra” is also a symbol. I would like to draw your attention – the Russian part of the audience knows this, and I will tell our friends and guests from abroad – the fact is that the city we are in, St Petersburg, is also called the Palmyra of the North from time to time. During the siege of the city, the Nazi barbarians and their satellites tried to destroy it in the same way.

In 2016, after the liberation of Palmyra in Syria, our experts from the Institute for the History of Material Culture took urgent measures to save the monument: they examined the ruins of the arch, fixed every fragment, created a unique project for the restoration of this UNESCO World Heritage Site, and soon, together with their Syrian colleagues, will begin recreating it.

Russia and our people have a deeply recognised responsibility for the preservation of world heritage and traditional values. It is in our national character to be sensitive to the pain of others and to strive for justice, as well as to care for the preservation of our common heritage – I am referring now to the Russian language. It has been and remains a language of inter-ethnic communication for hundreds of millions of people around the world. This is confirmed by the initiative of the President of Kazakhstan, Mr Tokayev, to establish an International Organisation for the Russian Language. The proposal was certainly supported by Russia and our colleagues, the leaders of the CIS countries, but there is no doubt that the number of members in this organisation will grow.

Next year Russia will chair two international organisations at once: BRICS and the CIS. A large cultural programme has been planned. We are also looking forward to increasing cultural and humanitarian cooperation with the states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, ASEAN, and the leading regional associations in Africa and Latin America.

We are paying great attention to culture at the state level. We are spending considerable funds on its development and are certainly not planning to reduce this funding. On the contrary, we will be seeking additional reserves, supporting creative figures and organisations, programmes for the protection of monuments and development of historical cities, and launching unique projects based on digital solutions. One is the already operating Pushkin Card. This cultural and educational programme for youth allows every Russian citizen between 14 and 22 to visit museums, theatres, concerts and other cultural institutions at state expense. Such commonly available educational programmes are not only opening art to young people, but also serving to assert the principles of equality and social justice.

Domestic businesses are also playing a creative role in cultural development. They are preserving the cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia, opening new creative spaces, some at former industrial zones, and replenishing the collections of our museums and libraries with priceless artefacts. They are doing all this from the heart. This mission deserves the deepest gratitude.

The participation of business people in the development of culture is a supra-national, unifying process and hence businesses, Russia’s development institutions and the EAEU, BRICS and SCO economies will come up with even more initiatives. There is no doubt of this, and I hope the theme of so-called business culture and philanthropy will become a traditional item on the forum’s agenda.

I would like to emphasise that Russia is determined to engage in the closest joint work with all those who share our values of peace, friendship and mutual respect, and who are ready to take part in creating a modern multipolar world along the lines of civilisational and cultural diversity.

The successful development of humanity depends on the preservation of the identities of people, on the existence of equal rights and opportunities for all states. The Forum of United Cultures, its discussions and ideas are designed to facilitate the achievement of these goals. Attracting more authoritative and young creative figures, pedagogues, scientists, entrepreneurs and benefactors, it is capable of becoming a permanent venue for important decision-making in the humanitarian area. No doubt, Russia is willing to ensure these efforts.

Thank you very much for being here, for being with us. Thank you for your attention.

(Applause.)

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Lunesoleil (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
That speech is supposed to come from OUR leaders.
What are we to make of that?

Well — it could be said that Putin is now the real Leader of the Free World.

hello Bill, what should we think of Putin ❓, thank you for your feedback

The New Leader of the Free World.

(America's president, whoever it is or will be, is no longer the leader of free anything.)

Ask anyone in the 'global south' (better called the 'global majority'), and that's what they'll say as well.

[ExomatrixTV]

• If someone had told me before 2014 what would happen in Ukraine... | Putin, Russia:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SPTcPw1E7to

Putin: Let's drink so that no matter how high we fly, we will never be separated from the team! Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the IX St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum - Forum of United Cultures.

[ExomatrixTV]

• 🎯 DECLARATION: Pascal Najadi to Klaus Schwab on President Putin Declaring Schwab & WEF Legitimate Military Targets:

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v3q432t/?pub=ir01b

[Tintin]

It's Mother's Day in Russia today, November 26th. If anything this allows another glimpse into the persona, and what inspires and motivates him; he's certainly a sensitive individual, and shows genuine affection here as most of us men do when we speak of our mothers. Here Vladimir Putin talks about his

Source: https://twitter.com/simpatico771/sta...98105975980275

Text:

⚡️Rare moment Putin talks about his mother's past:

💐 Vladimir Putin talks about the strength of his mom Maria, who survived the WWII Leningrad blockade - in which 800,000 civilians were starved to death by fascist invaders.

Another 600,000 soldiers died in the defense of the city. Maria lost her 3-year-old son Viktor (Putin's older brother), giving birth to Vladimir after the war.

🌹 Today, Sunday 26 November is Mother's Day in Russia.

[Vicus]

The West opposes all the peoples of Russia – Putin 28 Nov, 2023

Russophobia, racism and other forms of neo-Nazism have become the official ideology of Western elites, the president has claimed

The official ideology of ruling Western elites today is aimed not only against Russian people, but against all the peoples of Russia, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday during a plenary session of the international Russian People’s Council.

“The West does not need such a big and multinational country like Russia,” the president said, adding that Russia’s diversity and unity “simply doesn’t fit in with the logic of Western racists and colonizers.”

That’s why, according to Putin, the West has started playing “the old tune” of calling Russia a “prison of nations,” describing the Russian people as “slaves” and even going as far as to call for the “decolonization” of Russia.

“We’ve heard this all before,” he said, adding that what the opponents of Russia really want is to dismember and plunder the country, if not by force, then by sowing discord within its borders.

Putin went on to warn that any outside interference or provocations aimed at causing ethnic or religious conflicts in the country would be regarded as an “aggressive act” and an attempt to once again use terrorism and extremism as a tool to fight Russia.

“We will react accordingly,” he declared.

The president stressed that Russia’s current fight for sovereignty and justice is “without exaggeration” of a “national liberation nature” because it a fight for the security and the wellbeing of its citizens.

Putin also noted that the Russian people, as they have already done in the past, have once again become a roadblock for those who are striving for global domination and are trying to push forward their “exceptionalism.”

“We are fighting today not only for the freedom of Russia, but for the freedom of the whole world,” the president said, stating that Moscow is now “at the forefront of creating a more equitable world order” and that “without a sovereign, strong Russia, no lasting, stable world order is possible.”

https://swentr.site/russia/588140-putin-west-racism/

[Vicus]

Western education systems degrading - Putin


RT
Tue, 28 Nov 2023


Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia, November 27, 2023

Schools and universities in the West have abandoned the liberal arts in favor of gender studies and other "pseudosciences," Russian President Vladimir Putin remarked in a speech on Tuesday.

"In the West, they are now practicing not only the policy of 'cancel culture', but also the actual abolition of liberal arts education," Putin told a gathering of the World Russian People's Council in Sochi.

"As a result, both [Western] culture and education are becoming primitive," he continued. "Many classical subjects are simply thrown out of Western curricula, replaced by some kind of gender and similar sciences - pseudosciences, of course."


The phenomenon highlighted by Putin has also been extensively condemned by Western conservatives, who have decried attempts by left-wing academics to cancel the study of ancient Greece and Rome over the so-called "whiteness" of these ancient societies, and to insert transgender ideology into the fields of medicine, archaeology, and psychotherapy, among countless other examples.


Explaining that education influences culture, Putin recommended that instead of following these Western trends, Russians should "learn from our ancestors, who both in traditional and avant-garde art, set an example for the whole world."

"I am convinced that the country's sovereignty and the strengthening of its role in the world are impossible without the flourishing of its original culture," he declared.


As "woke" ideology proliferated on American college campuses in recent years, the quality of students being admitted to these institutions has appeared to decline. Last month, the creators of the ACT college admissions test revealed that scores on the ubiquitous entry exam had fallen to a three-decade low. Several months earlier, a study by Northwestern University and the University of Oregon found that, for the first time in nearly 100 years, the average IQ scores of college-aged Americans were declining. The scientists behind the study attributed the dip to "a change of quality or content of education."

https://www.sott.net/article/486448-...egrading-Putin

[Bill Ryan]

Putin gave this speech a few days ago, transcribed and published in English here:

• http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/72863

Plenary session of the World Russian People’s Council

Vladimir Putin addressed, via videoconference, the plenary session of the World Russian People’s Council. The key topic of the forum, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the organisation’s establishment, is the Present and Future of the Russian World.

~~~

The official text is all there for us to read, but in this new 20-minute video Alexander Mercouris presents his own summary and analysis, stating that in his opinion it's the most important speech Putin has made this year. (And that's saying something. )

To risk my own one-sentence summary, Putin was explaining how Russia, Belarus and Ukraine all belong together pretty much as one 'nation' — whether literally or figuratively.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=c7BCZ5y_9BE

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Iranian media was attracted by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin's speech, who recited a poem by Persian poet Omar Khayyam within the framework of the international cultural forum:

"The drop began to cry that it parted from the sea, why do we beg God for forgiveness, the light and the shadow faithfully divide the world into parts, hardly a drop knows what happiness is!".

Note: we and the Persians have known each other too long. So don't be surprised by this cultural infiltration

@Slavyangrad

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1730947860038906048

[Bill Ryan]

I wonder if the UAE would have done this for Joe Biden. Putin received a King's Welcome when he arrived in Abu Dhabi...it was quite something.

Fighter Jets Announce Putin's Arrival in UAE

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9VTgdjosdxA

[pounamuknight]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Putin received a King's Welcome when he arrived in Abu Dhabi

Next he dropped by The Kingdom next door. The Crown Prince kinda made a big deal out of it

After his multipolar jaunt in the Mashriq, he welcomed an esteemed Persian friend to Moscow

Meanwhile...

[Tintin]

"...an accomplished gentleman."

I think I'll just let the tweet and video do the talking here but please do check out the 4 minute interview. There's the usual excruciating drivel about Ukraine but she's just delightful here, and very humourous too. There's a glorious piece of spontaneity here as well in the dog segment and a shot of the actual dance scene cited

[Bill Ryan]

This short clip was shown by Judge Napolitano during his conversation today with Ray McGovern. I'd not seen it before, and this was the only source I found, where the very brief incident is replayed 3 times. It dates from January 2020, long before the current conflicts in Ukraine and Israel. The comments on the video are a bunch of fun to read.

Putin Replaces Dropped Cap of Palestinian Honor Guard

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=stKQDcL3Q9E

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1734088443263648178

[Ravenlocke]

The Duran
20 minutes, topic,

Isolated Putin

Putin’s trips to the Middleast
Russian economy

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CYAiHXDk3RA