Putin Blames Western Ruling Elite For Global Economic Problems

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

Vladimir Putin gave a speech in which he blamed the ‘western ruling elite’ for creating the economic hardships impacting people in Europe and the United States.

During a speech that was broadcast live on Russian television, the Kremlin frontman also slammed Russian oligarchs fleeing to Israel as a “fifth column” of “national traitors” who see themselves as a “superior race” and “cannot make do without foie gras, oysters or gender freedom as they call it.”

“Any nation, and even more so the Russian people, will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like an insect in their mouth, spit them onto the pavement,” Putin ranted.

“I am convinced that a natural and necessary self-detoxification of society like this would strengthen our country, our solidarity and cohesion and our readiness to respond to any challenge,” he added.

The Russian president also directly addressed westerners who are being told by the legacy media that skyrocketing gas prices and other economic hardships are purely to blame on Putin.

“I want ordinary Western people hear me, too,” Putin said.

“You are being persistently told that your current difficulties are the result of Russia’s hostile actions and that you have to pay for the efforts to counter the alleged Russian threat from your own pockets. All of that is a lie.”

“The truth is that the problems faced by millions of people in the West are the result of many years of actions by the ruling elite of your respective countries, their mistakes, and short-sighted policies and ambitions. This elite is not thinking about how to improve the lives of their citizens in Western countries. They are obsessed with their own self-serving interests and super profits.”

No doubt that very same elite will now cite Putin’s criticism of them as reason to assert they have the moral high ground.

Putin is now so roundly vilified, he is turning into some kind of mythical Emmanuel Goldstein figure onto which every crisis and catastrophe can be pinned by the regime.

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KJ
KJ
  Administrator
March 18, 2022 10:53 am

I think that’s part of the plan. We have to get down to 500 million people worldwide, per the Georgia Guidestones, remember? What better way than starvation? It’s nice and clean, none of these fucks have to get their hands dirty.

Thaisleeze
Thaisleeze
  Administrator
March 18, 2022 12:48 pm

I would rather be led by Putin than by Sleepy Jo, Bojo, Morrison, Trudeau not to mention horse face from NZ, or any of the other wimps in the West.

i forget
i forget
March 18, 2022 10:42 am

So he & Gabbard flunked, or quit, Schawb’s little school of piranhas?

KJ
KJ
March 18, 2022 10:54 am

Uh-oh… Vlad touched the (((Third Rail)))….

CCRider
CCRider
March 18, 2022 11:19 am

You’ve got to hand it to Vlad he’s one smart cookie. His message will make an impact on thinking Americans who are interested in the truth. Juxtapose that with the “official” bullshit we’re fed like government spending lowers the budget deficit, Gas is rising because of Putin and inflation is something to be gleeful about. I still think he’s just another WEF sock puppet.

Pieter in ZA
Pieter in ZA
  CCRider
March 18, 2022 11:27 am

Thinking Americans will never hear that message

CCRider
CCRider
  Pieter in ZA
March 18, 2022 11:42 am

Plenty of people will get the message. The dichotomy between narratives is too obvious to be discounted.

AK John
AK John
  CCRider
March 18, 2022 1:36 pm

Putin and Trump are both alike. They know they operate under the Global Cabal. But they do not like it, and even fight it as much as they can.

rhs jr
rhs jr
  AK John
March 19, 2022 1:08 am

I think Trump is one of them but they have a huge liberal asshole wing and he fights with them; I want someone who is not a NWO Zionist for POTUS in 2024.

AK John
AK John
March 18, 2022 11:32 am

He sounds just like your average BP poster. Somewhat sane. Unlike the libtards who are totally insane.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
March 18, 2022 11:41 am

Remember when there was the rare American politician that would speak like this? Yeah, me neither. (Well Ron Paul and some libertarians to a degree, but they were never allowed to say anything in prime time for sure).

rhs jr
rhs jr
  MrLiberty
March 19, 2022 1:10 am

Like George Wallace.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 18, 2022 1:35 pm

Sounds like Putin is well aware of the pathetic self serving parasites elected , appointed or hired to command and control government in the US Federal State & Local are all lying sacks of shit scurrying about like feral cats covering each other’s shit while destroying the economic industrial engine that was America and profiting wildly from it as average Americans circle the drain with the country !
Trump was attempting to make a friend & ally with Russia and Putin while the left wanted a war somewhere , any where to coverup their major disasters they use to enrich themselves !
Putin see’s The Emperor Has No Clothes

m
m
March 18, 2022 2:04 pm

I read the whole speech (official translation) and couldn’t find anything hinting at Russian oligarchs fleeing to Israel.

But if that is truly happening, the better for Russia.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
March 18, 2022 2:07 pm

It’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma…

Of course unless we have someone who is fluent in Russian it doesn’t mean a whole lot. He could be saying anything.

m
m
  hardscrabble farmer
March 18, 2022 3:51 pm

You don’t think taking the (official) speech in Russian, running it (paragraph-wise) through competing translation engines of Google and Yandex, and then comparing the results with each other, and with the official translation, is a feasible way to validate it?

And about the question if the officially published speech (in Russian) is equal to what he really said in the television broadcast, even my current clunky Russian should be good enough to validate that, if you’re interested and did the first exercise.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  m
March 18, 2022 11:57 pm

How did the exercise work out?

m
m
  Anonymous
March 19, 2022 4:28 am

Did you do the first exercise?
As usual, HSF ignores everything that runs counter to his narrative. I’m not investing the time unless I see someone did so with his.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  m
March 19, 2022 6:42 am

As usual I ignore everything that runs counter to my narrative?

How do you think I wound up here? I’ve been discarding everything I ever believed in my life for over a quarter of a century now so there aren’t many narratives left for me.

That said I’d love it to be true, but I don’t speak Russian and I definitely don’t trust Google. Not to mention the ties between Putin and the WEF which any reasonable person should consider a red flag no matter what appears to be taking place.

I think we should question everything that is said and weigh it against everything that occurs, that’s my narrative.

Let’s see how this plays out first, hmm?

m
m
  hardscrabble farmer
March 19, 2022 7:34 am

And you fall for this https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62964
cobbled together narrative,
and are unwilling to reconsider (or admit you do reconsider) when I point out there is no basis for the leap from, original quote, “it is a sign of belonging to the superior caste, the superior race” to, bs quote, “jewish oligarchs fleeing Russia”?

Putin said nothing of fleeing. He is not afraid of a few oligarchs, no matter how rich they are or what religion they pretend to follow.
He pointed at the regular people in Russia, some of which want to belong to the self-declared superior caste of materialistic Wokeism.
Putin: “Yes, of course, they will back the so-called fifth column, national traitors – those who make money here in our country but live over there, and ‘live’ not in the geographical sense of the word but in their minds, in their servile mentality. […]
The collective West is trying to divide our society”

It is already clear how this plays out, from a philosophical/religious standpoint.
Either “the West” successfully atomizes the Russian society and Russia collapses from the inside [too], no matter how mighty their military is. Or Putin succeeds in protecting his society, based on Christian roots.
I put my money on the latter, because Putin understands very well what is at stake and he has prepared for years for the -because of the West’s ‘perfectist’ stupidity- unavoidable clash.

Ginger
Ginger
  m
March 19, 2022 7:59 am

This discussion of the motives of Russian President Putin is all fine and dandy, but this is a real war with real armies fighting it out with a whole lot of damage going on. It will have an effect on the whole world.
From looking at the maps the Russians are doing a slow but steady classic pincer move. Looks like they are going to take about two thirds of the country and leave a bit for Ukraine with no military left.
Check out these photos for what real war looks like with both sides using modern technology, America has no stomach for this kind of fighting:

https://southfront.org/photos-18-russian-kalibr-missile-hit-ukrainian-military-facility-in-mykolaiv-dozens-of-casualties-reported/

Anonymous
Anonymous
  m
March 19, 2022 11:45 am

Could you give a little more before the quote for context, that link didn’t pull up anything in English for me and I can’t into cyrillic anymore.

m
m
  Anonymous
March 19, 2022 12:36 pm

Official english translation at http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67996
The webpage takes a while to load, and sometimes it can’t be reached, as it’s under constant (DDoS) attack now.

Bigger quote:
“[…]
We realise what kind of resources this empire of lies has at its disposal but, all the same, when confronted with truth and justice, it is helpless. Russia will never stop trying to make its position clear to the whole world. And our position is honest and open, and an increasing number of people hear, understand and share it.

I want to be as direct as possible: hostile geopolitical designs lie behind the hypocritical talk and recent actions by the so-called collective West. They have no use – simply no use – for a strong and sovereign Russia, and they will not forgive us for our independent policy or for standing up for our national interests.

We still remember how they supported separatism and terrorism by encouraging terrorists and bandits in the North Caucasus. Just like in the 1990s and the early 2000s, they want to try again to finish us off, to reduce us to nothing by turning us into a weak and dependent country, destroying our territorial integrity and dismembering Russia as they see fit. The failed then and they will fail this time.

Yes, of course, they will back the so-called fifth column, national traitors – those who make money here in our country but live over there, and “live” not in the geographical sense of the word but in their minds, in their servile mentality

I do not in the least condemn those who have villas in Miami or the French Riviera, who cannot make do without foie gras, oysters or gender freedom as they call it. That is not the problem, not at all. The problem, again, is that many of these people are, essentially, over there in their minds and not here with our people and with Russia. In their opinion – in their opinion! – it is a sign of belonging to the superior caste, the superior race. People like this would sell their own mothers just to be allowed to sit on the entry bench of the superior caste. They want to be just like them and imitate them in everything. But they forget or just completely fail to see that even if this so-called superior caste needs them, it needs them as expendable raw material to inflict maximum damage on our people.

The collective West is trying to divide our society using, to its own advantage, combat losses and the socioeconomic consequences of the sanctions, and to provoke civil unrest in Russia and use its fifth column in an attempt to achieve this goal. As I mentioned earlier, their goal is to destroy Russia.

But any nation, and even more so the Russian people, will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like an insect in their mouth, spit them onto the pavement. I am convinced that a natural and necessary self-detoxification of society like this would strengthen our country, our solidarity and cohesion and our readiness to respond to any challenge.

The so-called collective West and its fifth column are accustomed to measuring everything and everyone by their own standards. They believe that everything is for sale and everything can be bought, and therefore they think we will break down and back off. But they do not know our history and our people well enough.

Indeed, many countries around the world have long put up with living with their backs bent, obsequiously accepting all the decisions that come from their sovereign, looking up to it subserviently. This is how many countries live. Unfortunately, in Europe, as well.

But Russia will never be seen in such a miserable and humiliated situation, and the fight we are waging is the fight for our sovereignty and the future of our country and our children. We will fight for the right to be and remain Russia. The courage and fortitude of our soldiers and officers, the faithful defenders of the Fatherland, should inspire us.
[…]”

Catapult
Catapult
March 18, 2022 4:01 pm

Putin is right. The World Economic Forum, which hand-in hand with EU and UN elite rule the world. He nailed it

rhs jr
rhs jr
  Catapult
March 19, 2022 1:12 am

To bad JFK lived in such a criminal country that even hinting the truth was fatal.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 18, 2022 9:03 pm

“Vladimir Putin gave a speech in which he blamed the ‘western ruling elite’ for creating the economic hardships impacting people in Europe and the United States.”

Well Duhhh! It does not exactly take a Rhodes Scholar to look at what the asshats in charge have done, and what the result has been. The problem is that people are so flucking stupid they keep sending the same criminals back to Washington to keep conducting their criminal enterprises.

rhs jr
rhs jr
  Anonymous
March 19, 2022 1:13 am

We need Voting Standards.

overthecliff
overthecliff
March 18, 2022 11:35 pm

….and he is right.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 19, 2022 11:48 am

It’s the jews IN a country who are a fifth column.