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Putin Offers Full Amnesty For Money Repatriation, Threatens Crackdown Against FX Speculators
Earlier today Putin used his his annual speech to both houses of parliament, delivered in a chandeliered ceremonial hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, to give a pep talk to an economy that has been faltering in recent months as a result of, if not so much western sanctions which have hurt Europe more than Russia, then certainly tumbling oil prices. As Bloomberg notes, "the ruble is near a record low, the economy is headed for a recession and banks are pleading for state aid." It was Putin's task to try to persuade Russians today that panic isn’t the answer to their economic pain.
In his speech, Putin on one hand appealed to Russian patriotism. As reported by AP, he evoked religious imagery and defended the Kremlin's aggressive foreign policy as necessary for his country's sheer survival. Putin described Crimea as Russia's spiritual ground, "our Temple Mount," and added that national pride and sovereignty are "a necessary condition for survival" of Russia.
"If for many European countries, sovereignty and national pride are forgotten concepts and a luxury, then for the Russian Federation a true sovereignty is an absolutely necessary condition of its existence," he told a full room of Cabinet ministers, lawmakers and community leaders. "I want to stress: either we will be sovereign, or we will dissolve in the world. And, of course, other nations must understand this as well."
Putin also said that Russia is not going to get involved in an expensive arms race, adding that unspecified "unusual solutions" are at the nation's disposal.
"No one will succeed in defeating Russia militarily," he said. "They would have been delighted to let us go the way of Yugoslavia and the dismemberment of the Russian peoples, with all the tragic consequences. But it did not happen. We did not allow it to happen."
Moscow-based analyst Maria Lipman said that despite bellicose statements toward the West in the beginning of his speech, Putin "also spoke about how we are by no means going to isolate ourselves, we are interested in constructive work even with Europeans and Americans."
"This year, as in many fateful historical moments, our people clearly displayed national revival, firm resistance, and patriotism," he said. "And the difficulties we encountered will create new opportunities for us, we are ready to accept any challenge of our time and be victorious."
But while his romantic, emotional appeals were to be expected, what the financial community was focused on was his proposals to stabilize the economy. Among these were a three-year freeze on impromptu inspections and tax checks for companies with a clean record.
Putin also praised the work of the Central Bank, which moved to free float the ruble this year even though the currency hit a record low on Wednesday.
Lipman said that Putin was trying to reassure both the liberal and conservative camps in the government, but realizes his hands are tied by economic factors.
Perhaps the most notable announcement by Putin was that Russia would provide a "full amnesty" for holders of offshore funds, in a push to repatriate some of the $125 billion in capital that is said to have left the nation in 2014. To entice Russia billionaires to keep their cash in Russia Putin reminded everyone how hostile the west could be toward Russian money, using the Cyprus bail-in as an example. To wit:
I announce a full amnesty for capital returning to Russia, and i repeat, a full amnesty. What does that mean? Those people who fully legalize, fully bring back their capital to Russia, should be protected from being dragged to various law enforcement agencies, and from having to prove where they got their money from, and from being exposed to criminal investigations.
We need to reverse the history of capital flight from our country, we need to end this era.... We have already done a lot of work to improve our investment climate, and now we need to turn to implement that legislation.
Do Russians want to be "ripped-off abroad" once again when the next Cyprus takes place? Their best choice is to return to Russia, Putin added.
Finally, and perhaps most entertaining, was Putin, warning that the former KGB spy himself would go after FX manipulators who have succeeded in pushing the Ruble to record lows:
We know who these people are, and we have the means to rein them in. It's time to use these instruments.
Considering the only big FX traders left are other, western, central banks, we wish Putin the best of luck, but please wait so can grab the popcorn before "using these instruments." Or perhaps Putin should just form a task force with the SEC and the FCA: last we checked regulators around the globe were also "eager" to find FX manipulators around the globe...
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He is Latvian ? It's not those f*cker who will enter Eurozone in January 2015 ?
It's that country who have also a gay PM ? Look like liberals and Georges Soros pro gay agenda is working well here, poor Latvia...
Apreciate our "European values" comrade where f*cking in the a*s is the normality now, time to get your first IMF loan also, good luck !
You mentioned Chechnya. Here’s just one revelation of who is doing the pushing behind the US/IMF push for a collectivist one-world government.
“This harshness towards Putin is perhaps explained by the fact that, in the US, the leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). The list of the self-styled 'distinguished Americans' who are its members is a rollcall of the most prominent neoconservatives who so enthusastically support the 'war on terror'. They include Richard Perle, the notorious Pentagon adviser; Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged on the invasion of Iraq by predicting it would be "a cakewalk"; Midge Decter, biographer of Donald Rumsfeld and a director of the rightwing Heritage Foundation; Frank Gaffney of the militarist Centre for Security Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military intelligence officer and one-time vice-president of Lockheed Martin, now president of the US Committee on Nato; Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, a former admirer of Italian fascism and now a leading proponent of regime change in Iran; and R James Woolsey, the former CIA director who is one of the leading cheerleaders behind George Bush's plans to re-model the Muslim world along pro-US lines. The ACPC heavily promotes the idea that the Chechen rebellion shows the undemocratic nature of Putin's Russia, and cultivates support for the Chechen cause by emphasizing the seriousness of human rights violations in the tiny Caucasian republic. It compares the Chechen crisis to those other fashionable 'Muslim' causes, Bosnia and Kosovo - implying that only international intervention in the Caucasus can stabilise the situation there. In August (2004), the ACPC welcomed the award of political asylum in the US, and a US-government funded grant, to Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister in the opposition Chechen government, and a man Moscow describes as a terrorist. Coming from both political parties, the ACPC members represent the backbone of the US foreign policy establishment, and their views are indeed those of the US administration....Allegations are even being made in Russia that the west itself is somehow behind the Chechen rebellion, and that the purpose of such support is to weaken Russia, and to drive her out of the Caucasus. The fact that the Chechens are believed to use as a base the Pankisi gorge in neighbouring Georgia - a country which aspires to join Nato, has an extremely pro-American government, and where the US already has a significant military presence - only encourages such speculation. Putin himself even seemed to lend credence to the idea in his interview with foreign journalists on Monday."
--John Laughland, trustee of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group
The Chechens' American friends, 8 September 2004
Ha ha ha ruskie internet trolls who uses ad hominem tactics are so pathetic :) doesnt even hide them http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
LMAO
THAT LYING 5 FOOT 6 INCH TALL KOMMIE KGB COLONEL MOTHER FUCKER
Admit it, Republi-Ken, you're queer for Putin. Your unrequited homoerotic fantasy is the source of your anger.
Just in case someone wants to read the official line,
http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/23341
Just a few points I wish to share with you all,
1. If putin is such a grand master at chess why has he spent most of his speech today banally criticising
the West for Russias present woes ? Did he not have a plan for the rouble and oil prices dropping ?
2. Is there a difference between a rebel Chechen fighter in Chechnya and a rebel pro russian fighter in Ukraine ?
2b. Is Putin sure that the local law enforcement will take care of the rebels ? (goose and gander again)
3. How many ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Tatars voted in the Crimean elections ?
4. What is the difference between Temple mount in Jerusalem and Sevastopol ?
5. How much of that dirty money is coming back to russia ?
I think after this speech we are seeing cracks in his ZH aura. Some of his references are somewhat ridiculous.
Most definitely akin to a poor game of checkers Pane putin.
Lastly, what does Mr putin, the rouble rate to the $ and the price of a barrel of oil have in common ?
They all hit 63 next year !
Man, living in your world of delusions might be nice.
Why not delude yourself to some of the points raised Stooge.
My world is just fine.
Wrong -Putin is at least 7 feet tall. He towers over the mental midget "leaders" in the US and west.
Wrong again.
10 Foot is the usual saying, ESPECIALLY with your description. +1000
Why are you projecting Obama’s and Bloomberg's and the AP's warmongering on Vladimir Putin?
And as for the KGB, Bush #I was head of the CIA.
Putin’s career in the KGB also saw a considerably different organization than the old agency under Stalin. Essentially, the modern KGB is a bureaucratic organization where career officers are promoted based on their service to the nation.
As J. Michael Waller wrote in his book, ”Russia: Death and Resurrections of the KGB”: The KGB has many structures and functions that were necessary for the preservation of a democratic society. “Like any country, and more than most, Russia needs services to fight organized crime, terrorism, and weapons trafficking; to conduct intelligence and counter-intelligence, to guard borders and protect elected leaders; and to perform various other duties related to law enforcement and national security.”
In short, the modern KGB is not like the CIA; it’s considerably more inclusive with its responsibility to the Russian Federation. The CIA is a spy agency.
Sharon Tennison in “Who is Vladimir Putin? Why Does the US Government Hate Him?” sheds more light on Putin and the KGB:
“March 2000: I arrived in St.Petersburg. A Russian friend (a psychologist) since 1983 came for our usual visit. My first question was, ‘Lena what do you think about your new president?’ She laughed and retorted, ‘Volodya! I went to school with him!’ She began to describe Putin as a quiet youngster, poor, fond of martial arts, who stood up for kids being bullied on the playgrounds. She remembered him as a patriotic youth who applied for the KGB prematurely after graduating secondary school (they sent him away and told him to get an education).
“He went to law school, later reapplied and was accepted. I must have grimaced at this, because Lena said, ‘Sharon in those days we all admired the KGB and believed that those who worked there were patriots and were keeping the country safe. We thought it was natural for Volodya to choose this career.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-vladimir-putin-why-does-the-us-government-hate-him/5381205
Thanks JR, that's interesting reading.
I can believe what Lena said about Putin in his younger days as a patriot because whenever I see him speak or interact with journos etc, that is exactly what I see in him. His speech today to the Duma sets out exactly what he feels about the West's aims and intentions towards Russia. He was right to say that if Ukraine wasn't used as the big stick against Russia, it would have been something else.
Unless he's the world's best actor and I'm totally misled, I'd say that Putin is a genuine Russian patriot and tries his best to position Russia on the world stage as an equal partner.
But of course this is exactly what the West doesn't want. They want a defeated and subservient Russia lead by a Western sycophant who sells out his country and its resources for their gain. Putin is smart enough to have spotted this and won't let it happen.
What might be very interesting is some first hand comments from a westerner who has spent a year or so living in Moscow: Edward Snowden. He would either confirm that it's a giant façade and Putin plans to take over the world, or that our assessment is accurate. I suspect it would be the latter.
What might be very interesting is some first hand comments from a westerner who has spent a year or so living in Moscow: Edward Snowden.
Exactly, smacker, on all accounts. And the silence from Snowden in the western media is deafening.
Well we never know, maybe Tyler will manage to make contact with Edward and invite him to write a brief Exclusive Guest article for ZH to let us know about life in Moscow and what he thinks of Putin's Russia.
Ray Mcgovern - CIA veteran - knows how to contact him.
http://wantarevelations.com/2014/11/confirmation-criminal-cover/
PUTIN PRAISES CENTRAL BANK !!
anyone who is behind the Central banks is a TRAITIOR to the People !!!
Fuck you Putin
almost forgot... Fuck you Obama
From previous posts, I guess you're a zionist and I wouldn't normally take the bait but I see this obsfucation a lot in the comments.
There is a world of difference between a national central bank and a privately subscribed central bank - the words, "Federal Reserve" has the ring of .gov about it, but it has nothing to do with the electorate. One is in theory answerable to the public and the latter is usually owned and operated by the Squids (GS, JPM, etc).
All Wars Are Banker's Wars. (Youtube video)
Zero Hedgers, Vlad needs a few more flacid, compliant men to judo flip like a sack of potatoes while the video rolls.
Are you up for it? You'll receive a signed t-shirt with his likeness as a token of appreciation.
Always remember, 'Russia plays the long game'. Like breaking up the Soviet Union into 15 discrete entities, then decades later trying to reassemble them.
Or invading Afghanistan (1980), then un-invading it (1988).
Yep, that Russian/Soviet experience is quite the model! :-)
Too many Putin lovers here. Ask religious minorities how they have faired in Russia in recent years with their property confiscated, their groups banned, their books banned (The subversive "My Book of Bible Stories" and the like. Those Baptist, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormons are a threat to the state!
Putin wants the world to go back to the way it used to be. It will not.
“For the Russian Federation, a true sovereignty is an absolute necessary condition of its existence,” Putin said.
That’s the mark of a patriot, in this case, a Russian patriot. These are words Obama not only will not speak, his handlers will not allow him to declare American sovereignty. In one case, America has been overturned with a tsunami of Third World immigration and a ban on European immigrants. But in a larger sense, America’s sovereignty was completely destroyed when the Federal Reserve System finally achieved total political control, and spread its tentacles to central banks and politicians around the world.
There is a frightening push for world government to be controlled by those who call themselves “bankers” and Putin has just declared the Russian Federation will not be in it.
For freedom lovers, like me, it is comforting to know that there is one place on earth the banking cartel, now led by dual-citizen Stanley Fischer, does not control. And my hope is that this Russian Federation sovereignty will become the new model for free peoples that once was the torch carried by the American nation.
+100
These instruments he is talking about would include Polonium Tea and staple guns?
Btw. Russia scrapped South Stream. Putin will not sell gas to Europe via South Stream. If the EU thinks it's smart: Russia will sell its gas to China and whomever wants to buy. So Europe will remain dependent on ME oil and gas. And it is a mess there. Putin just said: "Fuck the EU".
Putin announced the end of South Stream in the same press conference where he announced a new gas deal with Turkey. The new deal is for the same amount of gas that would have gone through South Stream. This deal has been in the works for months. Putin would not cut off a branch while he is still sitting on it - that trick is for Europeans.
Nice analysis here of the fix Europe is finding itself in, and the politicians won't really "get it" until next winter of 2015/2016:
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-importance-of-cancellation-of-south.html
One has to wonder if "fuck the EU" was the plan all along: US hawks will be soaring high come election-year.
Hillary Clinton = Hitler with a vagina?
(Nice link, BK-- things to think about)
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A bit ridiculous considering that the polonium tea is a concoction brewed by the Anglo-Israeli-Russian oligarch mafia.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/07/31/theresa-may-raises-an-o...
anybody find this speech in english?
commentators using adjectives eg 'bellicose', 'romantic, 'emotional' have their own agenda.
'just give me the news, i'll decide if it's 'romantic'
http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/23341
There you go.
My, my, Sooooooooo many newly minted CIA commenters.....TAX CONFISCATION AT WORK.....DESTROYING ANY FORUM NOT UNDER CONTROL
The best solution for Russia would probably be this:
1. Let the Russian central bank print money and then lend the money to the Russian government or a pension fund controlled by the government. The interest rate should be 0 % or near 0 %. Then let the government or the pension fund buy Russian stock at fire sale prices. This solution would resemble how the Feederal Reserve is propping up the American stock market by printing money for the primary dealers. I also think that it should be a better idea to print money in order to prop up the stock market if the stock market is undervalued, like in Russia.
2. Attract dumb money from the west. Ask the Chinese to create mutual funds based in Hong Kong that buy Russian stock. If the Russians and Chinese sign a non-confiscation of assets treaty, Western retail investors won´t be afraid to invest in these mutual funds.
This got to be less risky for Russia than attracting smart money and oligarch money. Smart money sometimes have political agenda. Smart money is also more simple to influence by those who have a political agenda.
My impression is that Putin himself has a rather poor understanding of basic economics. He doesn´t see simple solutions to Russia´s problems. He is trying to do things the hard way although it is not necessary. He has adressed some of Russias problems. But my assessment is that Russia would have been better of by now with an economy that did not depend on Western investments to the same extent. However, he seems to understand that foreign media ownership may cause problems for himself and increase the risk for a return to early 1990s Yeltsin style rule.
If the US is behind this attack on Russian soil as mentioned on page one here
http://johngaltfla.com/wordpress/2014/12/03/12-03-2055-et-breaking-news-...
Then I would expect some sort of similar response here
perhaps taking out a few like George Soros
this is definitly escalating quickly
If Putin was serious about solving the problem, wouldn't he just polonium some folk?
Doubtful, as he's never done that before.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/07/31/theresa-may-raises-an-o...
Gotta laugh at the Obama-ist escape hatch he puts in his seemingly sincere offer...
"Those people who fully legalize, fully bring back their capital to Russia, should be protected from being dragged to..."
Always read the fine print. Unless they come home 100%, they are still going to get whacked.
Keeping your flat on Canary Wharf? Sorry, offer does not apply to you. Small checking account in New York to pay for son's college expenses? Sorry, offer does not apply to you.
Carrying an American Express card? Enemy of the state.
If you like your bank account, you can keep your bank account. Hardy-har-har.
From Dec 4th, 2014, Putin's speech to Parliament:
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" ... Speaking of the sanctions, they are not just a knee-jerk reaction on behalf of the United States or its allies to our position regarding the events and the coup in Ukraine, or even the so-called Crimean Spring. I’m sure that if these events had never happened – I want to point this out specifically for you as politicians sitting in this auditorium – if none of that had ever happened, they would have come up with some other excuse to try to contain Russia’s growing capabilities, affect our country in some way, or even take advantage of it.
The policy of containment was not invented yesterday. It has been carried out against our country for many years, always, for decades, if not centuries. In short, whenever someone thinks that Russia has become too strong or independent, these tools are quickly put into use. ..."
full transcript:
http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts/23341
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That was completely paranoid delusional baloney, from a barking idiot. Here's a guy who pretends he's never once done anything wrong, like taken Crimea, stolen the Navy and part of the air force of a sovereign state, and trained and armed pro-Russian fifth column rebels to slice-off the east of Ukraine. What absurd insane crap and nonsense!
If one bit of that completely paranoid delusional bullshit were true, why was not one finger lifted against Russia when it invaded and sliced off all of norther central Georgia, in August 2008?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Georgia
The 'West' and "the US and its Allies", did absolutely nothing about this aggression in 2008! In fact we were horrified Russia would do such a thing, and were equally aghast that Russia was willing (and so lightly) to risk all of its economic and diplomatic relationships and linkages with the West, and to risk actually triggering exactly the situation we see today of a broad international foreign-policy consensus choice to impose escalating international sanctions against Russia because doing nothing and giving the benefit of the doubt clearly doesn't work with the out-moded boofheads in the Kremlin.
We did absolutely nothing about Georgia, so Putin's Kremlin did it again in Crimea five years later.
And we again effectively did absolutely nothing about that, the west even said openly that there was "no military solution in Crimea". So a few months latter Russia uses ultra-nationalist proxies it has trained and armed to slice off a large part of eastern Ukraine, as well.
Then finally the "West" and the "US and its Allies", actually did something, and imposed progressive and escalating sanctions while Putin laughed it off and said it was all totally inconsequential, a bit like getting mauled by a dog with no teeth.
So now Putin is getting the reality-check and squeals like a lame little arsehole who then - get this! - laughably claims to his parliament and to his duped people that no matter how allegedly 'innocent' and 'self-defensive' were his actual military attacks, and invasions, and thefts, and murders, in the neighboring State lands (and Russia is already the largest sovereign territory on earth), he now asserts that the "West" and "US and its Allies", would have always dreamed-up some feigned excuse to impose sanctions to undermine, destabilize and dismember Russia, anyway!
Which is rank delusional paranoid conspiracy-theory drivel which does not stand up to even cursory analysis, reality-checks and a brief factual retort.
Putin's speech is a one-eyed delusional clown spewing imaginary phantoms to a militarized ultra-nationalist cohort and all those Russian ultra-nationalist cretins lap it up like a bowl of vodka as the dog then rolls around in its ultra-nationalist do-no wrong fecal mania and gets up wagging its tail and claiming to smell like a perfumed manicured poodle.
Well this speech was a good example of why it's unfortunately time to run the Russian state economy and finances to the ground.
Moscow could have got everything it wanted via diplomacy, trade and peace. But instead the ultra nationalist morons, chief among them being Vladimir Putin himself, simply couldn't resist the inner-thug, their in-built tendencies, and the inability to defer such gratification to win the big prize that was available. Moscow could have won the de-Americanization of EU foreign policies and ended the Allied interventionism.
But instead their inner irrepressible belligerence undermined all they had achieved and were on the verge of.
There's a cost to wallowing in and fostering phoney ultra-nationalist delusions, Vlad, and sorry but you're not half as smart as you think you are. A smart leader would have actually gained everything instead of looking-on and whining limply like a delusional little jerk while watching everything slip away, making paltry laughable excuses about the West as a fig-leaf for your own gross failure, and inventing wild laughable conspiracies to blame others for your own inner-thuggish incompetence, incredible stupidity and failure to lead Russian people into a far better time, and a far better circumstance that was then available to them.
You stupid bastard, you've completely blown it!
You successfully snatched defeat out of the jaws of game-changing victory, you could have triumphed, but instead Russia will now turn to shit, and struggle for decades.
In Oct 2012 Russia had prevented a US bombing attack on Syria and Damascus, it had NATO on the back foot at a painful moral disadvantage, the UK was red-faced and embarrassed and Washington's warmongers were stymied, rattled and chastened.
You, Vladimir had also had a closer and more strategic relationship with Iran. Plus the Black Sea coast was surrounded by peace then, and more or less was in a neutral and balanced strategic circumstance.
You Vladimir, had the opportunity of the Olympic spectacle, and the F1 spectacle to show Russia in a whole new light as an equal and admirable European nation.
But look at you now!
Now, Syria's main regional ally, Iran, is working closely with "the US and its Allies" in Iraq, and is even running air strikes in support of parallel strategic military and security aims. Plus the US is actually bombing Syria now! Plus it is even bombing many of the same targets as the Syrian air force is bombing!
While the Black Sea and the Caucus's area is a scene of escalation, vulnerability and sliding strategic imbalance.
And the Russian position, economy, finances, and influence has not been as weak for over a decade! Its influence over the west is now almost non-existent and is universally distrusted and basically shunned.
You really couldn't have screwed the Russian pooch any faster if you'd tried Vlad!
And blaming others for your stupidity and complete failure (which is far from over yet) diminishes you even faster, you come off in that speech sounding like an ignorant and irrelevant dolt, cursing heaven with hypocritical assertions of sending bad fortune your way that was equal to your deeds heaven beheld.
If you're Russia's idea of an Alpha-male archetype leader, then Russia as a nation is unfortunately destined to remain in this tedious decadal cycle of collapse and enfeeblement well - into the future.
And no, the evil West didn't beat-up on you - get real! The West didn't even begin to beat up on you. It didn't even try.
You've simply gone from the verge of triumph to dowsing yourself in petrol and flicking a lighter while we've all watched on aghast at you, you bloody fool!
Ever heard the saying, "The buck stops here!"? Well it stops with you mate, you can't pass this buck to anyone else, Russia's status and near term situation starts and ends with you, Vlad.
Peace out!
Your ADF stripes are showing,
Sea like you drank from the vessel of military power and are still a bit drunk.
Russia's history shows that it is not delusional paranoia to expect empires to come after it.
You has trouble comprehending something as clearly written as this?
"...Moscow could have got everything it wanted via diplomacy, trade and peace. But instead the ultra nationalist morons, chief among them being Vladimir Putin himself, simply couldn't resist the inner-thug, their in-built tendencies, and the inability to defer such gratification to win the big prize that was available. Moscow could have won the de-Americanization of EU foreign policies and ended the Allied interventionism. ..."
From that, the pointing out that peace would have got him everything, you take that to mean that I'm promoting war and militarism and somehow construe "ADF stripes"?
Smoke less pot.
Citing history as a form of apologetics? We could say that Germany is about to start WWIII because it kicked off the last two, but we all know the Germany of 2014 is not the Germany of 1914. Similarly Putin's preaching of mere assertions of concerted western conspiracy, to the converted of his ultra-nationalist church, is an absolutely pitiful throwback. What Putin is claiming would be completely laughable if it were not as perilous as parlous. History has nothing to do with his remarks the man is playing the part of a thuggish paranoid gangster, and each day it becomes clear that he is not play-acting the role, he's a dangerously unhinged heavily-armed belligerent who actually takes the parts of other countries, then acts like it was really his land all along. Hitler did exactly the same thing and had exactly the same attitude and excuses and he blamed the West for his actions in exactly the same ways.
FYI: NDA's are used by accident investigators to prevent personal, national, political and commercial interference, biasing, derailing and undermining of formal investigations, based on physical produceable and demonstrable evidence. But feel free to assume such commonplace investigative tools used by the NTSB and ATSB and similar accident investigation agencies are a grand cover-up. It would make a nice wall-paper embellishment for the crowd-sourced contrived thesis which suits your personal preference. Alternatively you could demonstrate a capacity to sort the issues yourself and also the honesty to hold all conclusions in abeyance, that way you wouldn't have to spend all day, day after day, assing about in this melange of overblown feeble misfiring-ganglia-generated swill of crowd-sourced 'truth'. Maggi 2-minute noodles are awesome, add boiling water and wait 2-minutes and you have an authentic oriental meal! You don't even have to cook! Maggi crowd-sourced truth! You don't even have to think! Eat yer bog, call it fudge, whatever.
The ADF went to a Sydney Mardi Gras in 2007 and came back as a gender confused sex change aspirant with senior commanders who think a deployed combat force must have read and discussed as a group the Feminine Mystique then get in touch with their inner vegan via a progressive series of Yoga retreats. Brawn is also not needed in combat when you have appropriate sensitivity training and inclusiveness plus taxpayer funded sex-change operations for stigmatised and emotionally scarred diggers who have been having all sorts of bother finding the right shoes to go with their new handbags. God help us if there's a real war this century as someone might break a nail in the bums-rush to hoist up the white fag.
Excuse the typos.