Putin’s Victory Day Speech is Unvictorious
In the end, Putin’s much anticipated speech was an 11-minute reiteration of the propaganda used to justify the war in Ukraine.
In the end, Putin’s much anticipated speech was an 11-minute reiteration of the propaganda used to justify the war in Ukraine.
Contrary to what many Western journalists and politicians persistently assume, there exists little continuity between Imperial Russia and the Soviet regime, just as there was no ideological or political identity between pre-war France and the Vichy regime.
It is not possible for Europe to continue its transition into nothingness and decadence. We will not be able to meet the challenges—which are already violent today—if it remains ensconced in comfort, lies, a war on effort and excellence, gender madness, and the culture of death.
In order to cripple the Russian war machine, Austria has been in support of EU sanctions. Yet, these hurt Europe’s economy while significantly lowering living standards in the process. Now that their effectiveness is increasingly in doubt, Austria stands out among member states for pursuing a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine debacle.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán—refusing to adopt policies that run counter to the interests of the Hungarian people—has agreed to pay Moscow in rubles for gas imports.
Russia, the world’s largest wheat exporter, has threatened to restrict vital agricultural and food exports to countries deemed “friendly” to Moscow, prompting widespread concerns of a global food and migration crisis.
When grilled about the ‘regime change’ comment by reporters on Monday, Biden was not willing to “walk anything back.” He explained he said it out of “moral outrage,” and that it was a “personal feeling.”
The incident, precipitated by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, comes as Europe grapples with a worrying uptick in ethnic hatred directed at ordinary Russians.
Following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Russians and Russian-speaking Germans have increasingly been the targets of seething ethnic hostility in the past few weeks, facing hundreds of attacks and exclusion from healthcare facilities and restaurants.
There is not much good news in the unfolding tragedy that is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the resolve and the courage of the Ukrainian
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