Obviously once a socialist always a socialist. Arderns documents that she gained many insights in her International socialist leadership role, that she appreciated the think tanks  of Europe.

In correspondence to the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Ardern corresponded to them on NZ Government letterhead as she discloses how NZ citizens would suffer almost 50% unemployment within 10-20 years in 2018.

That change economically, politically, societally was not just about to happen it was happening now (2018)

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FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN NEW ZEALAND FARMLAND (CORRUPT & CRIMINAL INVESTORS)

Foreign Investment in New Zealand farmland has become much easier when it comes to forestry investment.  Farming groups fear too much productive farming land is being lost. That large scale forestry conversions puts rural life at risk. Farming groups requested the government to urgently review ‘forestry investment’ in New Zealand ( Souce-RNZ 24/2/2022-Nov 2019).

RNZ reported 17^th October 2019 -The NZ Govt deliberately encourages foreign investors to purchase farmland in NZ  A ‘Green Rich List’ was published of NZ’s largest private land owners, the largest being foreign owned forestry companies (Land Information Data). There is a network nationwide. Some members of the NZ public were astounded when mainstream media revealed the Chinese/Malaysia  ‘Tiong Family Group, emerged as the 2^nd largest foreign investor in NZ land. ( 19/10/2019). They are owners of Forestry, Media, Property Assets worldwide.

Investments owned by the ‘Tiong Family Group have emerged in NZ include  ‘Ernslaw One Forests, NZ King Salmon, ‘Rimbunan-Hijau’,Oregan Group (subsidiary of Ernslaw ) and the ‘Neil Group’ a land development company in NZ and Winstone Pulp. (NZ Stuff News Media). NZ King Salmon & the Neil Group are intertwined family enterprise activities, connected to ‘Sarawak Forestry Corporation’  Sarawak Forestry Corporation is a statutory body of the Sarawak Govt formed in 1995.  ( Commercial forestry) A report dated 16^th June 2019 questioned ‘’Why Shell should think twice about before engaging with the timber crooks”

Hikurangi Forest Products is the largest overseas investor in NZ land who was scrutinised for causing serious environmental damage in Tolaga Bay. Hikurangi Forest Products was owned by Samling’s Global Group however it was sold to ‘New Forest’ in 2019 a Sydney based company. ‘New Forests’ is a global forestry investment manager that offers high impact strategies in ‘Sustainable Forestry’

Rimunan Hijau Group owned by the Tiong Family Group have been published many times as having a bad reputation of environmental destruction in Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.  There have been references made to ‘timber barons attempting to enter the tree planning bandwagon. The publishing of false information that 63% of state remained forests remain, however they have been scrubbed by the notorious state corrupted government program in Sarawak. (North West Borneo)

The propaganda machine wrongly promote this as ‘Forest Landscape Restoration’ These are the worst eco-crooks on the planet, however mainstream media persistently blame the deforestation  (destruction of forests) on man made global warming when it really is  an eco-corrupt mafia machine.

Corrupt eco media machines cosy up to corrupt governmental regimes. The Tiong Family group’ who have heavily invested in NZ farmland as forestry investment (owners of Rimbunan Hijau) have key political positions in the ‘Chinese-Malaysia Sarawak United Peoples Party’ and have the lions share of forestry plantation concessions. The Sarawak United Peoples Party is a left wing movement established in 1959 by leftists many are members of the underground communist movement in Sarawak. They have a damming reputation of seriously violating workers.

The ‘Tiong Group’ control the largest Chinese Newspaper conglomerate ‘Media Chinese International Ltd’  The Tiong Group also own oil and gas and numerous other businesses. They also have their roots in ‘Sibu Timber’  ‘Sibu Timber’ logging companies have been reported as having developed activities of stripping out billions of dollars of timber from Sarawak Natural Heritage for decades.

Tiong Family Group ( Rimbunan-Hijau’ were caught illegally destroying remaining forests in the South Pacific (Reported 20^th January 2020) ‘Predator logging company thrown out of the Solomon 2. Islands. Two of the sons of the Tiong Family Group were among the shareholders of the company booted out of the Solomon Islands.

Tiong Group’s investment was in a company named ‘Gallego Resources’, which has destroyed swathes of land on the Solomon Islands (Exposed by National Geographic). The Solomon Islands are the second largest suppliers of tropical logs to China (National Geographic). They are also a subsidiary of Sarawak Timber companies this includes the link to  Rimbunan-Hijau that belongs to Sibu based Tiong Family Group.  Rimbunan-Hijau has a record in the Solomon Islands which has mirrored patterns of what has happened in the rainforests of Borneo by the same few Sarawak businessmen. Always follow the money.

Gallego Resources is linked to  Rimbunan-Hijau’s company which is named the ‘Mafrica Corporation whose headquarters are in Sibu, Sarawak and parts of Africa.   Mafrica Corporation has made itself at home in New Guinea, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Central Africa, Republic of Congo and New Zealand. Further information documented with the Solomon Business Registry in 2019 revealed sixteen further companies predominantly forestry owned run by Tiong brothers

Corruption and bribery are rife in the Solomon Islands references have been made to ‘One Pacific Co Ltd.,’. This was set up by Gallego Resources director Wong Hook Ping in 2014.. Shares were hand to the Tiong Group in 2017. It has been reported “Corruption and bribery are rife within the logging industry in the Solomons, a select few benefit at the expense of the many”.  Politicians, public officials and landowners have benefited from royalties, profits, bribes, inducements, tax avoidance practices. MP’s being shareholders of ‘Tiong Family Group’ companies overseas. Timber corruption in the South Pacific has been described as common-place.

Greenpeace have published reports that ‘Tiong Group’ owned Rimbunan Hijau activities have included a total disregard for the law, illegalities in many aspects of their operations. References are made to the Greenpeace report 2004 which includes:-Environmental damages, Human Rights Abuses, Social Conflict, Political Corruption, Treating workers like slaves, Racial and Sexual Abuse and Labour exploitation. That workers are receiving 15cents per hour and have had no wage increases for 10 years..

Dept of Labour- New Guinea have documented ‘safety practices are appalling so bad they cannot be measured, their behaviour unacceptable, that workers spend their time trapped in unsanitary hazardous conditions in camps. They are beaten up by the local police squad who enforce ‘Tiong Groups’ owned Rimbunan Hijau company laws if workers try to open trade facilities.  Rimbunan works outside the law and communities find themselves powerless to act against the powerful Rimbunan-Hijau.                                                                                                                                                    Women in New Guinea are forced to have sex with the company’s bosses and overseas workers.

Note: Rimbunan Hijau is owned by Tiong Family Group that has large investments in farmland in New Zealand. The Overseas Investment Office New Zealand approved of their large investment in NZ Farm land.  Masalia News articles have featured the companies appalling record on human rights & serious environmental issues ‘The Malaysian Multinational that destroys lives, rapes the country, destroys natural resources for self rewards, assisted by corrupt politicians and public servants, protected by its own newspaper.

RNZ Report 20^th September 2018. ‘Malaysian billionaire, the owner of another Tolago Bay forestry company was granted 24 consents to purchase sensitive land between 2005-2017 even though its company faces accusations of Environmental.  Corrupt, criminal foreign investors in NZ land have been given the ‘NZ Governments Good Character Test’ Land Information, NZ Overseas Investment office-manager ‘Vanessa Horne’ said when referring to these companies “After considering various matter, including limitation issues, ages of fines- it’s too long ago to act on the information alone” when it comes to Overseas Investment Consent.

The Council Of Trade Unions reported ‘The OIO Good Character Test only applies to individuals not the company itself, therefore companies with poor records of environmental practices therefore no action can be taken by the current law against these companies, therefore bad practices will continue. NZ Overseas Investment Office (OIO) have said “to take enforcement action it would need to be proved that the person is not fit to hold an asset”. (Note: Even though  corrupt, criminal evidence is well documented of environmental and human rights abused).

The Tiong Family Group have been investing in New Zealand for over 20years, and have been granted more than 90 approved consents to companies controlled by the Tiong Family Group.  Note:- Ardern’s recent trip to Japan ‘A Live Tour of Finding the Rainforest’. A haven for all as NZ and Japan agree to enhance their partnership to protect the pacific (April 22^nd 2022)

Note:- NZ Govt Overseas Investment Office website document ‘The role of nz Govt OIO is to help realise the benefits of overseas investments while protecting NZs sensitive land and asset’. Greenpeace and National Geographic report environmental, racial and human rights abuses and political corruption overseas by companies owned and linked to the ‘Tiong Family Group’. Reports of racial, sexual abuse, exploitations have been made by RNZ, Civil Rights Groups, Greenpeace and National Geographic

Reports include ‘Papua New Guinea rain forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate by Rimbunan -Hijau and the supporting government. That people is communities are being abused. (Rimbunan Hijau owned by Tiong Family Group)

Yet New Zealand Government Department ‘Overseas Investment Office (OIO) give Tiong Group companies a ‘Squeaky Clean Character Test’- A consent to own the 2^nd largest farmland assets in New Zealand.

NOTE:  Must add this – Prince Charlie was not happy when mummy ‘Queen Elizabeth’ knighted Tiong Hiew King, the founder, chairman of the Rimbunana Hijau Group in 2019. What a smack in the face for Charlie boy after all he established the ‘ 2007 Princes Rainforests Project’ .

The Rainforests are being destroyed by greedy wealthy conglomarates not man-made climate change Ardern and her political cronies in the toilet bowl of Wellington promote and publicise.

Ardern and her political cronies should stop throwing farmers under the tractor and using them as their whipping boy, time to expose the government own links to corrupt criminal Eco Mafia’s.

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Populations are declining. Population decline can be caused by one or a combination of many possible trends. Aging, birth-rates, emigration, fertility rates and high mortality rate, wars and violence also disease and catastrophes. Lets add corrupt criminal governments, global elitist regimes to this too.   A shrinking population means wealth can increase and top that off with a shrinking workforce which is being rapidly imposed on civilians worldwide today by the introduction of advanced AI technology

In 2018 Ardern gave a speech in Belgium where she publicly informed her audience that New Zealand’s workforce risks declining by 48% or more within 20 years. Also in her speech she boasted several times that she was the leader of the Youth International Socialist’s several years back. That also that its important to stay true to open borders.

Ardern agreement with World Economic Forum that New Zealand is to become the guineapig state for AI Reimagining Regulations’ Where Agritech would be widely promoted, replacing traditional farming.This being seeds, crops having sensors controlled by a group of drones, using AI Data, self driving machinery. Several Agri-businesses (farms) could be operated by one person in a room. This means the severe cutting back of livestock.  Farmers have done their utmost to appease Ardern’s socialist/Marxist demands, regulations (commands by comrade Ardern). Even though NZ Farmers have fenced off 98% or more of their farmland from waterways still the government demands more. (Eco-Fascism).  You only have to join the dots and seriously look at what the NZ Government has determined for the future of NZ. It’s not a pretty sight, and its far from being kind. It’s cruel and it’s nasty

As for population control, we as New Zealanders are living under a COVID veiled death cult. Increased suicide, assisted suicide, increased abortions – Arderns introduced one of the worst abortions Acts in the world.  How many people have not visited doctors, hospitals to be checked out, scanned for possible cancer. What about the zoomed, telephone doctor-patient meetings to determine whether a person is sick or not?  As our govt promote tele-health and tele-medicine.  Lets not forget the cherry picking of what the govt relays to the public of NZ, note Ardern and her political cronies never publicize the deaths and serious harm done to New Zealand citizens post the COVID19 Jabs.

Free speech is severely and seriously targeted. Political policing targeting those that speak up about any of the Acts  the govt has imposed on NZrs. Including that of Climate Alarmism. And the dumbing down of education, the politicking of school children.  The teaching of Critical Race theory where children are made to feel guilty because of the colour of their skin. Mental Health Authorities in the UK have documented they are alarmed at the anxiety that children are suffering in UK Schools around being taught climate alarmism hence introducing a new mental disorder namely ‘Eco-Anxiety’

NOTE:- Many countries are facing demographic changes, shrinking populations. It has been projected by analysists at ‘Business Insider’ and other outlets twenty countries that have the greatest decline over the next three decades (2020-2050)

Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Greece, Latvia, Ukraine, Serbia, Bosnia, Estonia, Hungry, Poland, Georgia, Croatia, Portugal, Moldova, North Macedonia, Japan, Cuba, Albania and Italy                  Bulgaria’s population is expected to decline by 22.5% from 6.9 million in 2020 to 5.4 million in 2050. Mass outbound migration is the largest contributor towards Bulgaria’s population decline.   Lithuanian population is projected to shrink by 22.1% over the next three decades. The population is expected to shrink from 2.7 million to 2.1 million people. Like Bulgaria, Lithuania’s largest population loss is due to mass migration. Latvia is expecting a 21.6% population loss between 2020 and 2050. Latvia has lost about one-fifth of its population since joining the European Union in May 2004. Latvia’s population loss is caused by economic migration and low birth rates.

Ukraine’s population is projected to drop from 43.7 million in 2020 to 35.2 million in 2050, a 19.5% loss. High emigration rates coupled with high death rates and low birth rates are to blame for Ukraine’s population loss. The country’s birth rate is 9.2 births per 1,000 people and its death rate is 15.2 deaths per 1,000 people. The Serbian population is expected to decline from 8.7 million to 7.1 million over the next 30 years. This is a decline of about 18.9%. Many of Serbia’s highly educated and skilled workers have left the country to find better job opportunities since there are very few in Serbia. The high migration rates are coupled with low fertility rates.  The population is projected to decline by 18.2%, shrinking from 3.3 million in 2020 to 2.7 million in 2050.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s fertility rate is well below the population replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman at 1.26 births per woman. Croatia’s population is expected to shrink by 18.0%. The population is projected to drop from 4.1 million to 3.4 million over the next 30 years. The population reached its peak in 1991 at 4.78 million but has been declining since because of low birth rates and an aging population.

Moldova’s population will decline by 16.7% from 2020 to 2050. The population is expected to fall by 600,000 from 4 million to 3.4 million. Poverty and corruption in Moldova have pushed the highly-skilled, young workers away from the country and the aging population has been plagued by poor living standards and high mortality rate. Japan’s population is projected to lose 20.7 million people between 2020 and 2050. The population is expected to shrink from 126.5 million to 105.8 million, a 16.3% decline. Japan’s population has been falling since 2011 due to very low fertility rates (1.42 births per woman) and an aging population.

The Albanian population is expected to decrease by 15.8% over the next 30 years, falling from 2.9 million people to 2.4 million people. It is estimated that over 38% of the Albanian population lives abroad. Romania’s population is projected to decline by 15.5% from 2020 to 2050. The population will reduce from 19.2 million to 16.3 million over the next three decades. Between 2007 and 2015, about 3.5 million Romanians have gone abroad to escape poverty and widespread corruption.  The population of Greece is expected to shrink from 10.4 million to 9.0 million, 1 13.4% over the next 30 years.

Greece’s population began declining in 2011 when the first negative birth rate was recorded. Greece’s population could decline up to 50% over the next 50 years if nothing is done to combat it.  Estonia’s population of 1.3 million is projected to decline by 12.7% to 1.2 million by 2050. Compared to other Baltic states, Estonia’s population decline has been relatively slow and stable. Immigration has delayed a quicker population decline in recent year.

Hungary’s population is projected to drop from 9.7 million in 2020 to 8.5 million in 2050. This is a population decline of about 12.3%. Hungary’s population has fallen by about over 40,000 per year and shows no signs of slowing down. Policies Hungary to help slow the population decline are focused on boosting birthrates. Poland’s population is predicted to drop by 12.0%. Over the next 30 years, the population will drop from 37.8 million to 33.3 million people. Low birth rates and continued emigration are the two main reasons for Poland’s population decline. The population is expected to decline by 11.8%, shrinking from 4.0 million to 3.5 million from 2020 to 2050.

The decline in Georgia’s population is caused by the emigration in search of better jobs in other countries.  The Portuguese population is projected to decline from 10.2 million to 9.1 million over the next three decades, a 10.9% decline. Portugal has made attempts to lure back those who emigrated, whether or not they are highly paid or highly skilled and North Macedonia’s population is expected to drop by 10.9%, shrinking from 2.1 million to 1.9  million from 2020 to 2050.

Cuba’s population of 11.3 million is expected to shrink to 10.2 million by 2050, a 10.3% decline. The young people leaving the country and low birth rates are resulting in an increasingly aging population. Cuba’s population is expected to be the ninth-oldest in the world by 2050. Italy’s population is projected to shrinking by 10.1% from 2020 to 2050. The current population of 60.5 million people will reduce to 54.4 million over the next 30 years. Births are at an all-time low since the unification of Italy and young people are leaving Italy to other European countries for job opportunities. Population has fallen by 24.6% since its independence in 1991

‘INFORMATION FROM STATS NZ (GOVT) WEBSITE: These are just a few of the calculations by population studies. Stats NZ(Govt)  National Population projection: 2020 – 2073. Indicates the future population of New Zealand, probable outcomes based on different fertility, mortality and migration assumptions.

Please Note: NZ Government are using predictions, probabilities and assumptions, all devoid of facts, this is nothing new however these predictive assumptions and probabilities determine government Bills, Acts, Orders and Policies that control New Zealanders lives. ( Noted by Carol Sakey).  However the governments information website heads the following as Key Facts:-  (NOTE:  Carol Sakey calls these namely ‘Legal Fictions’)

NZ Governments -Short Term projections are as follows:- Annual population growth has a 50 percent probability of being between 0.5 and 0.9 percent in 2021 and between 0.5 and 1.2 percent in 2022. New Zealand’s population (5.09 million in 2020) has a 90 percent probability of increasing to 5.13–5.51 million in 2025 and to 5.19–5.94 million in 2030.

NZ Governments – Long Term Projections:- New Zealand’s population (5.09 million in 2020) has a 90 percent probability of being between 5.34–7.13 million in 2048 and 5.27–8.48 million in 2073.

THE WRITER CAROL SAKEY NOTES:-  MAIN CITIES OF NEW ZEALAND ARE TO BE FUTURISTIC CITIES WITH HUGE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS.  NZ GOVERNMENT DETERMINING RURAL MIGRATION TO EXTREMELY CONDENSED  HIGHLY POPULATED URBAN/ CITY AREA’S (UN HUMAN HABITAT 3)

New Zealand STNZ: Projection- Populations- Very High Migration. (2020-2073) Stats NZ -Govt.   : Projection: Population: Very High Migration data was reported at 8,554,000.000 Person in 2073. This records an increase from the previous number of 8,495,700.000 Person for 2072. New Zealand STNZ: Projection: Population: Very High Migration data is updated yearly, averaging 6,950,100.000 Person from Jun 2020 to 2073, with 54 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8,554,000.000 Person in 2073 and a record low of 5,093,500.000 Person in 2020. New Zealand STNZ: Projection: Population: Very High Migration data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics New Zealand. The data is categorized under Global Database’s New Zealand

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This is lengthy but well worth a read- Carol Sakey.

Read it so that you understand the situation.  You will not get a word of truth from the mouths of Western politicians and presstitutes.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, friends,

I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic events in Donbass and the key aspects of ensuring the security of Russia.

I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and about the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from year to year. 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 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite our protests and concerns. Its military machine is moving and, as I said, is approaching our very border.

Why is this happening? Where did this insolent manner of talking down from the height of their exceptionalism, infallibility and all-permissiveness come from? What is the explanation for this contemptuous and disdainful attitude to our interests and absolutely legitimate demands?

The answer is simple. Everything is clear and obvious. In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union grew weaker and subsequently broke apart. That experience should serve as a good lesson for us, because it has shown us that the paralysis of power and will is the first step towards complete degradation and oblivion. We lost confidence for only one moment, but it was enough to disrupt the balance of forces in the world.

As a result, the old treaties and agreements are no longer effective. Entreaties and requests do not help. Anything that does not suit the dominant state, the powers that be, is denounced as archaic, obsolete and useless. At the same time, everything it regards as useful is presented as the ultimate truth and forced on others regardless of the cost, abusively and by any means available. Those who refuse to comply are subjected to strong-arm tactics.

What I am saying now does not concerns only Russia, and Russia is not the only country that is worried about this. This has to do with the entire system of international relations, and sometimes even US allies. The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a redivision of the world, and the norms of international law that developed by that time – and the most important of them, the fundamental norms that were adopted following WWII and largely formalised its outcome – came in the way of those who declared themselves the winners of the Cold War.

Of course, practice, international relations and the rules regulating them had to take into account the changes that took place in the world and in the balance of forces. However, this should have been done professionally, smoothly, patiently, and with due regard and respect for the interests of all states and one’s own responsibility. Instead, we saw a state of euphoria created by the feeling of absolute superiority, a kind of modern absolutism, coupled with the low cultural standards and arrogance of those who formulated and pushed through decisions that suited only themselves. The situation took a different turn.

There are many examples of this. First a bloody military operation was waged against Belgrade, without the UN Security Council’s sanction but with combat aircraft and missiles used in the heart of Europe. The bombing of peaceful cities and vital infrastructure went on for several weeks. I have to recall these facts, because some Western colleagues prefer to forget them, and when we mentioned the event, they prefer to avoid speaking about international law, instead emphasising the circumstances which they interpret as they think necessary.

Then came the turn of Iraq, Libya and Syria. The illegal use of military power against Libya and the distortion of all the UN Security Council decisions on Libya ruined the state, created a huge seat of international terrorism, and pushed the country towards a humanitarian catastrophe, into the vortex of a civil war, which has continued there for years. The tragedy, which was created for hundreds of thousands and even millions of people not only in Libya but in the whole region, has led to a large-scale exodus from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe.

A similar fate was also prepared for Syria. The combat operations conducted by the Western coalition in that country without the Syrian government’s approval or UN Security Council’s sanction can only be defined as aggression and intervention.

But the example that stands apart from the above events is, of course, the invasion of Iraq without any legal grounds. They used the pretext of allegedly reliable information available in the United States about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. To prove that allegation, the US Secretary of State held up a vial with white power, publicly, for the whole world to see, assuring the international community that it was a chemical warfare agent created in Iraq. It later turned out that all of that was a fake and a sham, and that Iraq did not have any chemical weapons. Incredible and shocking but true. We witnessed lies made at the highest state level and voiced from the high UN rostrum. As a result we see a tremendous loss in human life, damage, destruction, and a colossal upsurge of terrorism.

Overall, it appears that nearly everywhere, in many regions of the world where the United States brought its law and order, this created bloody, non-healing wounds and the curse of international terrorism and extremism. I have only mentioned the most glaring but far from only examples of disregard for international law.

This array includes promises not to expand NATO eastwards even by an inch. To reiterate: they have deceived us, or, to put it simply, they have played us. Sure, one often hears that politics is a dirty business. It could be, but it shouldn’t be as dirty as it is now, not to such an extent. This type of con-artist behaviour is contrary not only to the principles of international relations but also and above all to the generally accepted norms of morality and ethics. Where is justice and truth here? Just lies and hypocrisy all around.

Incidentally, US politicians, political scientists and journalists write and say that a veritable “empire of lies” has been created inside the United States in recent years. It is hard to disagree with this – it is really so. But one should not be modest about it: the United States is still a great country and a system-forming power. All its satellites not only humbly and obediently say yes to and parrot it at the slightest pretext but also imitate its behaviour and enthusiastically accept the rules it is offering them. Therefore, one can say with good reason and confidence that the whole so-called Western bloc formed by the United States in its own image and likeness is, in its entirety, the very same “empire of lies.”

As for our country, after the disintegration of the USSR, given the entire unprecedented openness of the new, modern Russia, its readiness to work honestly with the United States and other Western partners, and its practically unilateral disarmament, they immediately tried to put the final squeeze on us, finish us off, and utterly destroy us. This is how it was in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-called collective West was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia. What victims, what losses we had to sustain and what trials we had to go through at that time before we broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus! We remember this and will never forget.

Properly speaking, the attempts to use us in their own interests never ceased until quite recently: they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to human nature. This is not going to happen. No one has ever succeeded in doing this, nor will they succeed now.

Despite all that, in December 2021, we made yet another attempt to reach agreement with the United States and its allies on the principles of European security and NATO’s non-expansion. Our efforts were in vain. The United States has not changed its position. It does not believe it necessary to agree with Russia on a matter that is critical for us. The United States is pursuing its own objectives, while neglecting our interests.

Of course, this situation begs a question: what next, what are we to expect? If history is any guide, we know that in 1940 and early 1941 the Soviet Union went to great lengths to prevent war or at least delay its outbreak. To this end, the USSR sought not to provoke the potential aggressor until the very end by refraining or postponing the most urgent and obvious preparations it had to make to defend itself from an imminent attack. When it finally acted, it was too late.

As a result, the country was not prepared to counter the invasion by Nazi Germany, which attacked our Motherland on June 22, 1941, without declaring war. The country stopped the enemy and went on to defeat it, but this came at a tremendous cost. The attempt to appease the aggressor ahead of the Great Patriotic War proved to be a mistake which came at a high cost for our people. In the first months after the hostilities broke out, we lost vast territories of strategic importance, as well as millions of lives. We will not make this mistake the second time. We have no right to do so.

Those who aspire to global dominance have publicly designated Russia as their enemy. They did so with impunity. Make no mistake, they had no reason to act this way. It is true that they have considerable financial, scientific, technological, and military capabilities. We are aware of this and have an objective view of the economic threats we have been hearing, just as our ability to counter this brash and never-ending blackmail. Let me reiterate that we have no illusions in this regard and are extremely realistic in our assessments.

As for military affairs, even after the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable part of its capabilities, today’s Russia remains one of the most powerful nuclear states. Moreover, it has a certain advantage in several cutting-edge weapons. In this context, there should be no doubt for anyone that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country.

At the same time, technology, including in the defence sector, is changing rapidly. One day there is one leader, and tomorrow another, but a military presence in territories bordering on Russia, if we permit it to go ahead, will stay for decades to come or maybe forever, creating an ever mounting and totally unacceptable threat for Russia.

Even now, with NATO’s eastward expansion the situation for Russia has been becoming worse and more dangerous by the year. Moreover, these past days NATO leadership has been blunt in its statements that they need to accelerate and step up efforts to bring the alliance’s infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders. In other words, they have been toughening their position. We cannot stay idle and passively observe these developments. This would be an absolutely irresponsible thing to do for us.

Any further expansion of the North Atlantic alliance’s infrastructure or the ongoing efforts to gain a military foothold of the Ukrainian territory are unacceptable for us. Of course, the question is not about NATO itself. It merely serves as a tool of US foreign policy. The problem is that in territories adjacent to Russia, which I have to note is our historical land, a hostile “anti-Russia” is taking shape. Fully controlled from the outside, it is doing everything to attract NATO armed forces and obtain cutting-edge weapons.

For the United States and its allies, it is a policy of containing Russia, with obvious geopolitical dividends. For our country, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a nation. This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact. It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty. It is the red line which we have spoken about on numerous occasions. They have crossed it.

This brings me to the situation in Donbass. We can see that the forces that staged the coup in Ukraine in 2014 have seized power, are keeping it with the help of ornamental election procedures and have abandoned the path of a peaceful conflict settlement. For eight years, for eight endless years we have been doing everything possible to settle the situation by peaceful political means. Everything was in vain.

As I said in my previous address, you cannot look without compassion at what is happening there. It became impossible to tolerate it. We had to stop that atrocity, that genocide of the millions of people who live there and who pinned their hopes on Russia, on all of us. It is their aspirations, the feelings and pain of these people that were the main motivating force behind our decision to recognise the independence of the Donbass people’s republics.

I would like to additionally emphasise the following. Focused on their own goals, the leading NATO countries are supporting the far-right nationalists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine, those who will never forgive the people of Crimea and Sevastopol for freely making a choice to reunite with Russia.

They will undoubtedly try to bring war to Crimea just as they have done in Donbass, to kill innocent people just as members of the punitive units of Ukrainian nationalists and Hitler’s accomplices did during the Great Patriotic War. They have also openly laid claim to several other Russian regions.

If we look at the sequence of events and the incoming reports, the showdown between Russia and these forces cannot be avoided. It is only a matter of time. They are getting ready and waiting for the right moment. Moreover, they went as far as aspire to acquire nuclear weapons. We will not let this happen.

I have already said that Russia accepted the new geopolitical reality after the dissolution of the USSR. We have been treating all new post-Soviet states with respect and will continue to act this way. We respect and will respect their sovereignty, as proven by the assistance we provided to Kazakhstan when it faced tragic events and a challenge in terms of its statehood and integrity. However, Russia cannot feel safe, develop, and exist while facing a permanent threat from the territory of today’s Ukraine.

Let me remind you that in 2000–2005 we used our military to push back against terrorists in the Caucasus and stood up for the integrity of our state. We preserved Russia. In 2014, we supported the people of Crimea and Sevastopol. In 2015, we used our Armed Forces to create a reliable shield that prevented terrorists from Syria from penetrating Russia. This was a matter of defending ourselves. We had no other choice.

The same is happening today. They did not leave us any other option for defending Russia and our people, other than the one we are forced to use today. In these circumstances, we have to take bold and immediate action. The people’s republics of Donbass have asked Russia for help.

In this context, in accordance with Article 51 (Chapter VII) of the UN Charter, with permission of Russia’s Federation Council, and in execution of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic, ratified by the Federal Assembly on February 22, I made a decision to carry out a special military operation.

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. At the same time, we have been hearing an increasing number of statements coming from the West that there is no need any more to abide by the documents setting forth the outcomes of World War II, as signed by the totalitarian Soviet regime. How can we respond to that?

The outcomes of World War II and the sacrifices our people had to make to defeat Nazism are sacred. This does not contradict the high values of human rights and freedoms in the reality that emerged over the post-war decades. This does not mean that nations cannot enjoy the right to self-determination, which is enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter.

Let me remind you that the people living in territories which are part of today’s Ukraine were not asked how they want to build their lives when the USSR was created or after World War II. Freedom guides our policy, the freedom to choose independently our future and the future of our children. We believe that all the peoples living in today’s Ukraine, anyone who want to do this, must be able to enjoy this right to make a free choice.

In this context I would like to address the citizens of Ukraine. In 2014, Russia was obliged to protect the people of Crimea and Sevastopol from those who you yourself call “nats.” The people of Crimea and Sevastopol made their choice in favour of being with their historical homeland, Russia, and we supported their choice. As I said, we could not act otherwise.

The current events have nothing to do with a desire to infringe on the interests of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. They are connected with the defending Russia from those who have taken Ukraine hostage and are trying to use it against our country and our people.

I reiterate: we are acting to defend ourselves from the threats created for us and from a worse peril than what is happening now. I am asking you, however hard this may be, to understand this and to work together with us so as to turn this tragic page as soon as possible and to move forward together, without allowing anyone to interfere in our affairs and our relations but developing them independently, so as to create favourable conditions for overcoming all these problems and to strengthen us from within as a single whole, despite the existence of state borders. I believe in this, in our common future.

I would also like to address the military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Comrade officers,

Your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and did not defend our common Motherland to allow today’s neo-Nazis to seize power in Ukraine. You swore the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and not to the junta, the people’s adversary which is plundering Ukraine and humiliating the Ukrainian people.

I urge you to refuse to carry out their criminal orders. I urge you to immediately lay down arms and go home. I will explain what this means: the military personnel of the Ukrainian army who do this will be able to freely leave the zone of hostilities and return to their families.

I want to emphasise again that all responsibility for the possible bloodshed will lie fully and wholly with the ruling Ukrainian regime.

I would now like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside. No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history. No matter how the events unfold, we are ready. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words will be heard.

Citizens of Russia,

The culture and values, experience and traditions of our ancestors invariably provided a powerful underpinning for the wellbeing and the very existence of entire states and nations, their success and viability. Of course, this directly depends on the ability to quickly adapt to constant change, maintain social cohesion, and readiness to consolidate and summon all the available forces in order to move forward.

We always need to be strong, but this strength can take on different forms. The “empire of lies,” which I mentioned in the beginning of my speech, proceeds in its policy primarily from rough, direct force. This is when our saying on being “all brawn and no brains” applies.

We all know that having justice and truth on our side is what makes us truly strong. If this is the case, it would be hard to disagree with the fact that it is our strength and our readiness to fight that are the bedrock of independence and sovereignty and provide the necessary foundation for building a reliable future for your home, your family, and your Motherland.

Dear compatriots,

I am certain that devoted soldiers and officers of Russia’s Armed Forces will perform their duty with professionalism and courage. I have no doubt that the government institutions at all levels and specialists will work effectively to guarantee the stability of our economy, financial system and social wellbeing, and the same applies to corporate executives and the entire business community. I hope that all parliamentary parties and civil society take a consolidated, patriotic position.

At the end of the day, the future of Russia is in the hands of its multi-ethnic people, as has always been the case in our history. This means that the decisions that I made will be executed, that we will achieve the goals we have set, and reliably guarantee the security of our Motherland.

I believe in your support and the invincible force rooted in the love for our Fatherland.

LINK TO PUTINS FULL SPEECH ON ODYSEE (EMPIRE OF LIES) https://odysee.com/@AussieFighter:8/Vladimir-Putin—%E2%80%9CEmpire-of-Lies%E2%80%9D-Speech—Full—February-24,-2022

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