The following report is by the Trends Journal:
In marking the 80th anniversary of Russia’s victory in the Battle of Stalingrad last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin compared the current conflict with Ukraine to the country’s fight against the German Nazis in WWII.
Putin told the crowd that Russia finds itself once again being threatened by German tanks, referencing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s recent decision to provide Ukraine with Berlin’s Leopard 2 tanks.
It’s incredible, but it’s a fact: They are threatening us again with German Leopard tanks with crosses painted on their armor. And they are again going to fight Russia on the territory of Ukraine with the hands of Hitler’s followers, the Banderites.
Putin said
Scholz used the Russian invasion of Ukraine as his impetus to strengthen his own military. Berlin has already earmarked $107 billion for military projects and will now spend 2 percent of its GDP on its military.
The Battle for Stalingrad lasted 200 days, resulted in over one million Soviet deaths, and left the city in rubble. But Putin said, “the entire Hitler coalition was broken.”
TRENDPOST: Back in 1941, following signed political and economic pacts between Germany and the Soviet Union, Hitler broke the agreement and launched Operation Barbarossa—the three million German troop invasion which was the largest in the history of warfare—to conquer and control Russia. An estimated 24 million Russians died during WWII, according to the National WWII Museum.
Top Russian officials have portrayed the conflict in Ukraine as a fight against modern-day Nazis.
Putin said during the speech that the “ideology of Nazism, already in its modern manifestation, creates threats to the security of our country.”
The Wall Street Journal, citing internal Russian polls, reported that Putin’s depiction of the conflict in Ukraine as an existential struggle for Russia resonates with the average Russian. A recent Levada Center in Moscow survey found that 71 percent of Russians support the military operation in Ukraine, which marked a slight fall in support from late last year when nearly 75 percent supported the war.
TRENDPOST: Putin has said that one of the reasons he invaded Ukraine was to de-Nazify the country.
The Azov Battalion formed in May 2014—shortly after Crimeans voted to leave Ukraine and go Russian—was comprised of civilian volunteers from neo-Nazi groups who faced off against Russian separatists in places like Donbas.
They were known to engage in “xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community, and people opposing their views,” Al Jazeera reported.
The battalion managed to retake Mariupol from these separatists a short time later and joined the National Guard of Ukraine.
Putin: Our Moral Duty
Putin said it is incumbent on Russia to “cherish and preserve the memory of this exploit [the Battle of Stalingrad] in its entirety, pass it on to the next generations, not to allow anyone to belittle or distort the role of the Battle of Stalingrad in the victory over Nazism, in the liberation of the whole world from this monstrous evil,” he said.
Putin placed flowers on the grave of the Soviet marshal who defended the city and held a minute of silence, DW.com reported.
He said Russia finds itself, again, fighting against the “collective West.”
Putin spoke about how today’s fight might have similarities from a moral standpoint, but the consequences could be much different.
Those who hope to defeat Russia on the battlefield do not understand, it seems, that a modern war with Russia will be very different for them. We are not sending our tanks to their borders, but we have the means to respond. It won’t be limited to the use of armored hardware. Everyone must understand this.
Putin said.
TRENDPOST: George Szamuely, the author of “Bombs for Peace: NATO’s Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia, 2014,” tweeted that Putin “clearly suggested Russia will not be defeated and that Russia would sooner use nuclear weapons than accept defeat. The war-cheerleading media have ignored his comment.”
Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president, told a Russian journalist last week that the more advanced U.S. weapons to Ukraine will only mean more strikes from Russia and that “all of Ukraine that remains under Kyiv’s rule will burn.”
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat also said Thursday that the more weapons the West provides to Ukraine, the more land Ukrainians will lose.
Lavrov spoke with Dmitry Kiselev, director general of the Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group, and said Western nations, led by the U.S., want the war to continue until any threat to their hegemony is “eliminated.”
“Nobody objected when [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky prohibited negotiations with Russia by law,” he said, according to RT, the Russian news outlet. Nobody scolded him when he… claimed that he doesn’t understand who makes decisions in Russia and who he should talk to.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. [7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows. Matthew 24:6-8
While I am not on “Team Russia,” regular readers of The WP know that I have documented multiple times that Ukraine is indeed run and brutalized by bona fide Neo-Nazis; with the West pouring in absurd amounts of weapons and money into this war-torn and anarchial land, thereby making them accomplices to the crime.
- Ukrainian From The Heart Of Donetsk Exposes The Lies About The Russia-Ukraine Conflict
- More Ukrainians Expose The Fake War: Ukrainian Army Is Murdering Its Own, As Nazi Groups Knowingly Kill Children
- Zelensky Praises Neo-Nazi Asov Battalion Soldiers Who Kill Their Own People
- Ukraine Army Commander-In-Chief Poses With Nazi Swastika Bracelet
- Ukraine Renames Street In Honor Of Pro-Nazi And Jew-Killer Figurehead Stepan Bandera
- Time Magazine Names Volodymyr Zelensky “Person Of The Year”
Be that as it may, just like Ukraine and NATO allies have threatened nuclear strikes, Russian officials have insinuated doing something similar, or the potential for something arguably even worse.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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The proxy war in the war machine. Sad and tragic.
He’s projecting, again.
whats that big statue of? this is my first time seeing it.