Putin's address to Russia: there's no such thing as Ukraine.

[kpete]

Putin says Ukraine is a geopolitical fiction created by Stalin in the 1920s. "We're ready to show you what real decommunization is."

He has really become an old crank

Putin asserts Ukraine is totally managed by foreign powers; claims Ukraine anti-corruption agencies are controlled by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

Putin: Do Ukrainians know their country is a colony with a puppet regime?

NOW: Putin addresses the nation, saying, “modern Ukraine was completed created by Russia.”

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[rgbecker]

1. I thought Qanon was running the whole place....

Wait a minute...That's the GOP.

Sorry.

[sarisataka]

2. Shades of 1938/39

"We have to protect our ethnic brethren" combined with "it's not a real country anyway"

Ends with "what are you going to do about it"

[uponit7771]

9. actually Hitler around 44-45 strung out on meth, Putin sounds like an idiot I pray Russians

... know this

[maxsolomon]

3. History is never in the past.

Revanchist horseshit from a cold calculating Sociopath.

[mathematic]

4. This must be the "genuine security issues on both sides" I read about on DU. nt

[Roland99]

5. Sooo. Putin has pulled a trump? Just refusing to accept reality?

[delisen]

6. Yesterday we wanted a little Crimea, today a little Donbas, tomorrow???? Is this 1930s again?

When Hiler started snacking on Eastern Europe in the 1930s his appetite soon got out of control.

Most people alive today were not here in the 1930s.
90 years can really blunt institutional memory. I think Putin is counting on this.

[lame54]

7. Get off my lawn moment

[moondust]

8. And Crimea belongs to the Tatars.

~
The Crimean Tatars controlled the Crimean Khanate from 1441 to 1783, when Crimea was annexed by the Russian Empire as a target of Russian expansion.
~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars#Background

Remember that part, Pooty? Selective memory?