What is pernicious is the military aid by NATO to Ukraine. You will have to pay a high price for it. I explain you how you will pay that price. The European middle class will be in an economic crisis - inflation, sky-rocketing prices, lack of energy, joblessness. The politicians who today vote sanctions against Russia and say that we are a terrorist state, all those people will find themselves in the garbage can of history.
Piotr Tolstoi, vice-president of State Duma, the Russian parliament where Putin’s ruling party United Russia has 325 deputies out of 450. They adopt Putin’s law bills without discussion.
Tolstoi made many more bewildering remarks in an interview with French TV channel BMF. I give a digest without comment. The Freeman readers be the judges.
It is not us who have begun that war, it is NATO because all our worries about Russian security have been ignored by the West. We will win that war in the battle field and the negotiations will be held on the Polish border. And the more you help Ukraine the longer this war will last. You will see that Russia cannot lose this war because nuclear powers do not lose wars.
Our target is the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine. I have no hatred against the Ukrainians, I admire Ukraine because I am half Ukrainian myself. My great-grandfather is born in Kyiv. I will not allow neither Mr. Zelensky and all the gang around him nor the Europeans to occupy my city Kyiv. I want change of the political regime in that country of mine. I am born in that country thus it is my country.
Russia is not targeting the civil population, she targets the energy infrastructure that will be demolished.
Ukraine will be sent to the eighteenth century. If we want we could flatten tens of square kilometers of land with the missiles we have, but we do not want to target the civilian population.
We are at the very beginning of this conflict. It will take years. Do you think that Russia is retreating her troops from Cherson because of fear of the Ukrainian army? No, we must regroup the troops before winter in order not to risk the civilians who live at Cherson and who are mostly gone with the Russian army and in order to spare our soldiers. Thus a temporary retreat is not the end of the war. Cherson is a
Russian city after the newly-held referendum. We will come back to Cherson, to Dnipro and doubtlessly to Kyiw.
Crimea peninsula has never been Ukrainian. The Russian army has enough forces to make the Ukrainians retreat as well as on all other fronts. They lost thousands of soldiers these last weeks because they try to attack us. That is in vain. We do not want to use our havy weapons to really devastate the land tens of kilometers into the depth of Ukraine. But if they attack the Russian tanks in Crimea, of course that would be a tragedy for the Ukrainian army.
Poutine has not yet begun a war, he has just begun a special military operation for the preservation of civil lives. I hope that the bombardments of the infrastructure will cause the civilians in the cities to flee to the countryside in order to save their lives before the Russian troops enter their cities.
Russia is not isolated and Putine is not weakened. His popularity, his approval rate is higher than ever.
He is not suffering and not sick. He is in full control at home and abroad.
Russia is the biggest country of Europe. You West Europeans have a vision of that geographically small – parcelled entity as being the whole world. That is not the case. You with your humanistic rhetoric and your moralizing reproaches, prepare yourselves as long as you still have time. Victory will be ours.