Putin’s speech so far sounds like a racist, homophobic cranky old uncle babbling about values while everyone rolls their eyes. But do not forget this man is a war criminal who is directing an onslaught of terror in Ukraine right now.
Putin openly appeals to the far-right forces in the free world, an attempt to create an alliance of those who grasp for power at all costs while pretending it’s for religious, family, or conservative values. Fascism is not conservative.
Hard to say which is more pathetic and vile, Putin talking about cancel culture from the police state he created or saying the West declined to “cooperate” with Russia, an invader. Putinspeak is worse than Orwell’s newspeak.
Appeasers will grab at Putin’s mention of dialogue and ignore that he did not mention the thousands of innocent Ukrainians his attacks have killed for nothing, the tens of thousands of Russians he sent to die for nothing. He could end his war today and does not.
