President Vladimir Putin took advantage of his speech on the state of the nation in the Duma on Monday to reaffirm before representatives of all levels of the country that Russia carry the proper course and what will follow fighting until the end. “Russia will overcome any challenge because we are all one country, one great and united people,” he added, appealing to the stoicism and perseverance that Russians refer to when they remember wars in which they defended themselves against invaders such as the Mongol Empirethe Napoleon’s France wave Nazi Germany.
In the same speech, which coincides with the first anniversary of the recognition of the independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and a few days after the start of the so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, insisted on some of the mantras of the Russian ruling party, in addition to announcing the suspension of the validity of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), blaming the NATO of your decision.
These are some of the keys to Putin’s intervention:
one of the great 21st century ephemeris regarding the Moscow-Washington relationship was the signing of the New Start treaty in 2010 and, following the decision of the Russian president to suspend his participation in it, he became wet paper. This was the great agreement between both nuclear powers that limited the nuclear arsenal. Putin justified the extent that in fairness Russia should know about NATO’s nuclear arsenal, not just the US’s. This would include those of France and United Kingdom.
“Including taking into account the fact that the United States is developing new types of nuclear weapons,” added the president. From his intervention it follows that Moscow would be legitimized to carry out nuclear weapons tests again.
Once again, Putin recalled the legacy of the generation that fought against nazi invader, a common resource in Russian official rhetoric. He pointed out that kyiv he uses “terrorists, Nazis and the devil himself,” while noting that Ukraine has Nazi units in its regular Army. The same Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenskyhas been repeatedly branded a neo-Nazi, despite his Jewish ancestry.
“Step by step, we will achieve the objectives we seek,” said the Russian president, before noting that “Russia did what it could to solve the problem in Ukraine peacefully” and ensuring that it will go to the end. Moments later he insisted that Ukraine is “historical Russian territory.” On September 30, Putin proclaimed the annexation to Russia of the Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Lugansk provinces, despite the fact that some of these territories are only partially controlled and lack international recognition. To these is added crimeawhich Moscow recognized as Russian territory after an annexation referendum in 2014 and which has also not been recognized by the international community.
As the Kremlin leader assured in his speech, Western countries do not hide their goal of inflicting “a strategic defeat” to Russia and its intention to turn a local conflict into a global confrontation. “This is how we all understand it and we will react appropriately. In this case we are talking about the existence of our country. But they [países occidentales] they cannot not understand what it is impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield,” he said, appealing to the fear of disintegration present in the Russian psyche.
He also blamed them for the conflict itself, asserting that “they (Western countries) started the war and we used force to stop it.” All for, in his opinion, getting “nothing” despite fighting against Russia “militarily, economically and propagandistically.”
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Finally, the Russian president alluded in his speech to one of his ‘coconuts’ personal pointing to the LGTBI community. He used the Bible and other holy books to ensure that the family just make it up”A Man and a Woman“. The Orthodox Church is one of the pillars of Putinism and the close relationship between them explains the conservative spin that the country has given in the last 20 years. Recently, the Duma toughened the law against “LGBTI propaganda” in the country, prohibiting mention of homosexuality and transsexuality in books and films, among other cultural assets.