On Friday, with a rambling speech, lamenting the fall of the Soviet Union, condemning gender transitions for children, and proclaiming that, “the destruction of this Western hegemony is irreversible,” Russian President Vladimir Putin, marked the illegal annexation of a territory representing 15 percent of Ukraine.
The four regions in question “held” wartime referendums, throughout the past week asking civilians if they would like Russia to annex their land. That was non-threatening, we can all wager. The vast majority of the free world rejected the referendum as a sham, since reports on the ground, indicated that soldiers went door-to-door, in some regions, clearly brandishing weapons and forcing citizens to vote in favor of the annexation.
These are the Ukraine regions of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and the two regions of eastern Donbas, Donetsk and Luhansk. The pro-Russia leaders in all four areas, claimed that an overwhelming number of participants, as many as 99 percent of voters in the Donbas, supported joining Russia. Further these same four leaders, attended the event in Moscow in which Putin officially signed legal documents, formalizing the colonization of those regions.
Putin welcomed the four Ukrainian regions as culturally, ethnically, and traditionally Russian.
In a broad often, rambling speech Putin claimed-
“They made their choice and our common destiny and millennia of history are behind us,” Putin proclaimed. “These feelings cannot be destroyed by anyone, which is why older generations and the youth, those who remember the tragedy of the collapse of the Soviet Union voted for our unity, for our common shared future.”
- Russian President Vladimir Putin
Adding that he was not pursuing reconstruction of the communist dictatorship, The Soviet Union, he claimed-
“Russia today doesn’t need this [the restoration of the Soviet Union], we are not striving for this, but there is nothing stronger than the willingness of millions of people who culturally – in their faith and their language, in their traditions – consider themselves to be part of Russia,”
- Russian President Vladimir Putin
Putin, at one point, urged the Ukrainian government to consider peace talks with Russia, which of course were to include that Kyiv accepts Russia’s claims to these regions it already “annexed”. He said-
“I would like everyone, including the authorities in Kyiv and their real masters in the West, to hear me and remember that the people of [the four territories] are becoming our citizens. Forever,”…adding “We call on the Kyiv regime to immediately cease fire, cease all hostilities – the war it unleashed in 2014 and return to the negotiating table. We are ready for this.”
- Russian President Vladimir Putin
Though the pro-Russian candidate for Ukraine office of President in 2014, was soundly beaten by now Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Putin refers to the administration as a “regime”, and has yet to reconcile with his proclamations that Zelensky is a dictator, and not duly elected.
Later in the speech Putin launched into a tirade against Western society in general, referring to Western values as-
“Satanic.”… Adding …“The destruction of this Western hegemony is irreversible, the world will never be the same,”… “For great, historic Russia, for future generations, for our children and grandchildren we need to protect them from these experiments which aimed to break their soul and their consciousness. … We are fighting for our culture, for our language so that it’s impossible to cancel it and remove it from history.” AND
“Would you like Mom and Dad in Russia, in our country, to be replaced with Parent Number 1 or Parent Number 2?” he asked. “Do we really want our children taught from primary school about perversion and a path to degradation … the idea that there are other genders other than man and woman and ideas about gender reassignment surgery?”
- Russian President Vladimir Putin
Putin also took the opportunity to accuse “Anglo-Saxons”, of bombing the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, which suffered at least four mysterious “leaks” this week. However, multiple governments of the nations affected, have publicly speculated that “sabotage” played a role in what may be irreversible damage to the pipelines, but no evidence has revealed any obvious culprit.
Mirroring the events that triggered the Russia-Ukraine war in the first place in 2014, when Russia colonized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, the current annexation of the Donbas, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia is history repeating itself. Crimea as well, held a sham “referendum” in which it claimed 90 percent of citizens voted to join Russia.
Putin signed both, documented annexing Crimea at the time, and a law that facilitated the future annexation of other territories, that should accelerate the process for the four regions, Putin is in the process of colonizing this week. How convenient.
What a dangerous place to live – neighbor to a tyrant that can send armies, to take over your homeland, and force his will upon your family. War is ugly enough, but when your capture becomes a permanent point of tyranny, the mental anguish is something Americans can’t quite comprehend.
This is indeed a dark series of events for Ukraine and its people, and an even bigger wake up call for America who seems to take the freedoms we have for granted. Further, we have leftist radicals within our own borders, who are trying to reshape the America we know, to conform with Putin’s style of communism.
This nation needs to rise up and fight the cancer within our own borders. It is not enough or possible to place a simple band-aide over this disease, so it can continue to fester and kill this nation. The cancer needs cut out and removed to save this country, that so many have fought and died to preserve. America – your vote is your voice – get out and shout to the hill tops, “from sea to shining sea”!
“Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts. ”
-Gordon B. Hinckley