Putin says Ukraine matter of life and death for Russia
Events on the battlefield in Ukraine are a matter of "life and death" for Russia that could determine its fate, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks aired Sunday.
The Kremlin has repeatedly framed the almost two-year conflict as a battle for Russia's survival in a bid to rally patriotic sentiment among its population, many apathetic toward the offensive.
"I think it is still important for us ourselves, and even more so for our listeners and viewers abroad, to understand our way of thinking," Putin said in an interview with state TV.
"Everything that is happening on the Ukraine front: For them it is an improvement of their tactical position, but for us it is our fate, it is a matter of life and death," he said.
Putin was responding to a question about a two-hour long interview he gave to U.S. talk show host Tucker Carlson, which the Kremlin used to promote its narratives on the conflict.
In that interview, Putin talked at length about Russian history and continuously questioned Ukraine's statehood, drawing ire in both Kyiv and the West.
"For the Western listener, the viewer, it was not easy. Even more so for Americans," Putin said when asked about his long, historical musings in the Carlson interview.
"The history of the United States is 300-odd years, and I started in 862. So I think it was not easy for American audiences to understand," he said.
18 February 2024, 23:48
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With every sardonic utterance, gabriel01 you unwittingly entrench yourself as a mere pawn, basking in blissful ignorance of the profound ideologies orchestrating the tapestry of the world that envelops you—a veritable embodiment of Lenin's paradigmatic notion of the useful idiot.
19 February 2024, 15:54
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19 February 2024, 16:01
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20 February 2024, 02:46
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@gabriel01: You seem like a nice guy, .... educated and successful. Mind if I ask: is your seven figure salary in Lebanese Lira?
19 February 2024, 22:15
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Benjamin Mileikovsky ( Netanyahu) is Polish-American , he doesn’t have any Levantine roots whatsoever, all Israelis in this government are either Europeans or Moroccans. On the other hand ,Russia is Ukraine and Ukraine is Russia. Nothing justified the CIA coup against Yanukovich and Putin is doing his job which is undoing the Western neocolonial expansion on the first Russian city which happens to be Kiev.
20 February 2024, 05:19
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For Stalin's sake tovarish stop bringing up blood origin or the Ukraine or Russian BS. It is not a secret Ryurik created Russina and Ukrain and he was a Viking Swed. Not a drop of Swedish blood run in old Vlady's veins. If you keep writing your Pravda invented BS I'll be homeless like the Palestinians or my handy work Syrians. BTW you i.report remind me a lot of Ziad Jarrah. Same profile and same hate. One day he was a fun loving guy the next day full of hate and a terrorist. I think we can use you haha. You see tovarish i.report I never trusted any of your kind. Not even Ramzan Kadyrov. That's why I have my people tracking every moves, nerve agents at hand. That is also why I was never ashamed or had any regrets for what I did in Chechenia or in Syria. Me and Bibi have a bet on who can take out more. So far I am winning by a lot and I mean a lot. I don't think he'll ever catch up. But god bless him he's trying.
21 February 2024, 03:31
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Vlad is right about the Vikings setting up Rus: that should teach the lesson that colonial regimes never succeed. How many Norsemen live in Asia today? You can read about the Vikings and their ways in two books: Barbarian Rites, which quotes a contemporary description by "Ahmad ibn Fadlan . . . a 10th-century Arab traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid caliph, al-Muqtadir of Baghdad, to the king of the Volga Bulgars", of Viking drunken whoring somewhere in this corridor from Moscow to the Black Sea, and Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton, who turns this all around to make ibn Fadlan appear to be a fictitious character (as I recall, reminded by my email of four years ago). I'm a quarter Swedish.
