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Russia is entering the coming era as a powerful sovereign country. We will definitely use the enormous new opportunities that time opens up for us. And we will become even stronger.

They [NATO] will chat endlessly, speak endlessly about the need to negotiate, and do nothing, except pumping up our neighbour [Ukraine] with modern weapons systems, and increase the threat to Russia, with which we will then be forced to somehow deal with, somehow live.

I have declared a special military operation.

Russia is entering the coming era as a powerful sovereign country and only strong sovereign states can have their say in the emerging world order, or are doomed to remain or become a colony.

If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff.

The most dangerous scenario [for America] would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an ‘antihegemonic’ coalition united not by ideology but by complimentary grievances.

As a reminder: everything that our partners – let us call them that – the United States has been doing in previous years, supposedly ensuring its interests and security thousands of kilometers away from their national territory – they have been doing these tough things, the boldest things, without UN Security Council authorization.

We know the worth of such verbal assurances, fine words, and promises…in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when we were told that our concerns about NATO’s potential expansion eastwards were absolutely groundless. And then we saw five waves of the bloc’s eastward expansion.

Treat us with at least a modicum of respect. We do not threaten you or your allies, why do you refuse us the security you insist for yourself?

They are trying to blackmail us again. They are threatening us again with [economic] sanctions, which, by the way, I think they will introduce anyway as Russia’s sovereignty strengthens and the power of our armed forces grows. And a pretext for another sanctions attack will always be found or fabricated. Regardless of the situation in Ukraine.

Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years and we [China and Russia] are driving this change together.

A coalition allying Russia with both China and Iran can develop only if the United States is shortsighted enough to antagonize China and Iran simultaneously.

If Ukraine becomes a pro-American liberal democracy, and a member of NATO, and a member of the E.U., the Russians will consider that categorically unacceptable.

Russia realizes that the world is now broken into two halves. America and NATO have separated the West. Basically, you have a white people’s confederation against all the rest of the world.

War is a hostile, harsh matter and the Islamic Republic [of Iran] never favors seeing ordinary people afflicted by wars. However, in the issue of Ukraine, had Russia not initiated taking action, the other side would have started a war…NATO is a dangerous entity.

Russia is using winter as a weapon.

Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us. It’s an inseparable part of our shared history, our comrades and relatives.

The question we ought to be asking ourselves is why did NATO even exist after 1990? If NATO was to stop Communism, why is it now expanding to Russia?

Of course, there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are — but this is just wrong.

To treat Ukraine as part of an East-West confrontation would scuttle for decades any prospect to bring Russia and the West — especially Russia and Europe — into a cooperative international system.

The United States aids Ukraine and her people so that we can fight Russia over there and we don’t have to fight Russia here.

No matter who tries to stand in our way… they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history…. I hope that my words will be heard.

The violence that still simmers in Ukraine started in the pro-Western west, not in the Donbas where it was a reaction to what was viewed as the threat of violence against Ukrainians who are ethnic Russian.

What do you think about us? Are we your slaves to follow your orders anyway?

They are achieving what they announced a long time ago, that Russia must know its place, Russia does not have the right to its own voice in international affairs, Russia must comply with the rules that were invented by the United States. That’s all. I think they understand very well that they won’t succeed.

Do you know what they say among the Russian people? Those who are destined to hang, do not drown.

The continuity of generations, values, traditions – all this is what distinguishes Russia, makes us strong and confident in ourselves, in our rightness, and our victory.

Russia is not afraid of multipolarity because of the large number of players. Indeed, it’s more difficult to come to a decision when all opinions are taken into consideration but what is reached by consensus is far more sustainable and long-term oriented than imposed solutions.

Let us not be deceived: NATO is an expanding instrument of U.S. global power that provoked Russia into a criminal invasion and occupation of Ukraine. This proxy war between the American Empire and the Russian Federation could lead to World War III.

I personally believe the driving motive behind the Russia hoax and other diversionary scams by Democrats is to camouflage their campaign of massive voter fraud. Illegal immigrants, dead voters, and their new tactic of vote harvesting are suffocating our democracy.

Russia is surrounded by US offensive weapons…no Russian leader, no matter who it is, could tolerate Ukraine joining a hostile military alliance.

I was disappointed to see that some of the so-called crypto exchanges, not all of them but some of them, are refusing to end transactions with Russia – you know, from some I don’t know, philosophy of libertarianism or whatever.

We are facing a situation now where Russia could alienate itself completely from Europe and seek a permanent alliance with China.

The West has declared total war against us, against the entire Russian world. Nobody even hides this fact now.

America is bullying and cunning. One of the reasons for the USSR’s collapse was that it was deceived by US policies. But Russia under you [Vladimir Putin] has maintained its independence.