Putin

2024 - 12 - 20

Putin: "Olisi pitänyt aloittaa sota aikaisemmin, mutta joka tapauksessa, mitä yleisesti?"

antisemitismin - Donald Trump - lehdistötilaisuus - Oreshnik-missili - Syyrian sota - Ukraina - Vladimir Putin - Yhdysvallat - Zelenskyy

Putin kertoo venäläisille, miksi Ukraina olisi pitänyt valloittaa aiemmin ja tarjoaa sotatanssia Trumpin kanssa!

Venäjän presidentti Vladimir Putin on jälleen kerran ollut valokeilassa, kun hän suhtautui varmasti vuodenvaihteen lehdistötilaisuudessaan. Hän paljasti, että hänen mielestään Venäjän olisi pitänyt aloittaa täysimittainen hyökkäys Ukrainaan aikaisemmin ja että maa olisi voinut olla paremmin valmistautunut sotaan. Sen sijaan, että maailmassa siirryttäisiin rauhaan, Putin päätti, että on parempi puhua uhkaavista ohipuhumisista ja kavalista sotasuunnitelmista. Kun Zelenskyy häntä arvosteli ja vieno epäily oli hänen motiivissaan, Putin vakuutti, että maan sotilaallinen operaatio on vahvistanut Venäjää – ehkä se on vain seuraava vladi-vitsa!

Putin kuitenkin paistatteli pisteet, sanoen olevansa valmis keskustelemaan tulevaisuudesta Yhdysvaltojen presidentin Donald Trumpin kanssa. Tämä poliittinen tanssi toi mieleen vanhan kunnon rock-kappaleen, jossa jokainen osapuoli näytti keskittyvän vain omaan etuunsa, ja yritti samalla esittää mukavaa kaveria. ”Valmistellaan dueli”, hän sanoi, ”ja katsotaan, kuinka amerikkalaiset sulavat, kun heidän pommi-pommiansa kohtaa meidän Oreshnik-missilaitteet.” Kuulostaa kuin hyvältä idean muunnelmalta!

Kun Putin kehui arjen sotilaallisia voittoja Ukrainasta ja tiivisti yhteistyötarjouksensa Trumpin suuntaan, unohtui samaan hengenvetoon puhua Syyrian Assadista, joka oli jäänyt Putinin taustapeiliin. Asiantuntijat arvioivat, että Putin saattaa olla enemmän itsekeskeinen kuin koskaan aikaisemmin, mikä on huolestuttavaa Kremliä katsoen. Sen sijaan, että olisi eteenpäin katsoja, hän tuntuu olevan enemmän vanhan koulukunnan poliitikko, joka puhuu ykkösestä.

On järkevää pitää mielessä, että kun kysytään, mitä putinilainen johtajuus tarkoittaa, pitkät lehdistötilaisuudet, epämääräiset uhat ja skandaalit ovat tulleet koko tämän ajan valtiollisiksi brandeiksi. Loppujen lopuksi Putin on jälleen kerran esittänyt itsensä rauhassa, vaikka tilanne Ukrainassa on mitä on. Joten vitsikkäästi sanottuna, alkuperäinen riita on vain häilyvää!

Tiesitkö, että Putin on monesti käyttänyt samanlaista retoriikkaa kuin kaksi vuotta aikaisemmin? Hänen tilaisuutensa ovat olleet hirveitä tunteiden vuoristoratoja ja ovat saaneet ihmiset kuiskimaan sodasta tai rauhasta. Venäjä on monimuotoinen maa, eikä sen presidentin sanotut sanat yksinkertaisesti voi kävellä yhden lausunnon varassa. Ja loppujen lopuksi, kuinka kova on sota, jos kaikki osapuolet vain odottavat, että naapuri avaa kahvin ja keskustelu alkaa?

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I should have invaded Ukraine earlier, Putin tells Russians in TV ... (BBC News)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia should have launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier and been better prepared for the war.

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Putin boasts of Ukraine gains, denies fall of Assad in Syria dented ... (PBS NewsHour)

The Russian leader sought to project strength and ease at his annual news conference and call-in show Thursday.

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Putin says he's 'ready' for potential talks with Trump during year-end ... (CNN)

Russian President Vladimir Putin put a positive spin on a spate of recent setbacks Thursday, insisting in a marathon news conference that Russia had ...

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Putin Challenges West to 'High-Tech Duel' to Test Missile Defense (Military.com)

Putin, speaking at his annual end-of-year news conference, also said he was ready to work with US President-elect Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine ...

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Putin says Russia ready to compromise with Trump on Ukraine war (Voice of America)

The Russian president says that his forces were moving toward achieving their primary goals in Ukraine and touted what he said was the invincibility of a ...

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Putin Glosses Over Russian Setbacks, Including Syria (The New York Times)

The Russian president, in a marathon annual news conference, said that he had not yet met with Bashar al-Assad, the ousted Syrian leader who fled to Moscow, ...

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Putin says West's air defenses have 'no chance' against Russian ... (ABC News)

Russia's war on Ukraine dominated the opening stages of President Vladimir Putin's annual marathon press conference on Thursday.

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Putin promises to ask Assad about whereabouts of American ... (CNN)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would enquire about the whereabouts of Austin Tice, the American journalist missing in Syria, while responding to a ...

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Russia-Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy slams Putin's missile 'duel ... (Aljazeera.com)

This live page has now been closed. Russian President Vladimir Putin suggests a missile “duel” with the United States that would show how Russia's new Oreshnik ...

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Zelenskyy calls Putin a 'dumbass' (POLITICO.eu)

Ukraine leader also hit out at Russian president during Thursday's European Council summit in Brussels, calling him “crazy.”

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Putin boasts of gains in Ukraine at annual news conference meant ... (The Associated Press)

President Vladimir Putin has boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the downfall of a key ally in Syria had ...

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Putin says Russia is ready to compromise with Trump on Ukraine war (Reuters)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on ...

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Zelensky calls Putin a 'dumbass' for challenging a missile 'duel' (CNN)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a tart response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual year-end news conference Thursday, hurling a rude ...

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Putin says he should have launched full Ukraine invasion earlier, as ... (BBC News)

Vladimir Putin's traditional - and marathon-length - end-of-year press conference has concluded. The Russian leader discussed a wide range of domestic and ...

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Putin boasts of gains in Ukraine at annual news conference meant ... (Parkersburg News)

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the ouster of key ally Bashar ...

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Vladimir Putin accuses 'ethnic Jews' of tearing apart the Russian ... (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement ...

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Putin revives antisemitic trope, says Jews are tearing apart Russian ... (The Times of Israel)

Comments made during press conference echo Soviet-era antisemitism under Josef Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and accused them of being 'rootless ...

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Putin's 'highly choreographed' press event puts positive spin on face ... (CNN)

Russian President Vladimir Putin put a positive spin on a spate of recent setbacks, insisting in a marathon news conference that Russia had accomplished its ...

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Russia bombards Kyiv with eight ballistic missiles day after Putin ... (The Guardian)

Mayor accuses Moscow of 'genocide', saying latest strike shows Putin's indifference to women and children.

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Putin says Russia is ready to compromise with Trump on Ukraine war (EURACTIV)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (19 December) that he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with US President-elect Donald ...

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News Wrap: In annual news conference, Putin vows to continue war ... (PBS NewsHour)

In our news wrap Thursday, Russian President Putin reaffirmed his commitment to continuing the war in Ukraine, Luigi Mangione returned to New York as he ...

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Putin says Oreshnik ready for missile 'duel' against US-made defenses (Business Insider)

Russian leader Vladimir Putin suggested on Thursday that an experimental "duel" be held between Moscow's newly unveiled Oreshnik missile and Western-made ...

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