On September 21, Vladimir Putin pronounced, in a tone clearly more mechanical than passionate, a masterpiece of false propaganda to paint the picture of a Russia attacked by the West and the
"Ukrainian neo-Nazis",
thus justifying the call for the partial mobilization of the Russian population, a measure which could ultimately cost them dearly.
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“If you dare to touch our territory, you will suffer the wrath of our nuclear arsenal
,” he told Westerners.
The speech was a brazen inversion of facts.
Because it was Russia that attacked a sovereign country, Ukraine, by launching total war against it.
It is also Moscow which produces every day, through the voice of its ideologues and ministers, an openly fascist discourse stating a desire to eradicate Ukraine.
If you dare to touch our territory, you will suffer the wrath of our nuclear arsenal
Vladimir Poutine
But in the tradition of the "KGB house" from which Putin comes, it does not matter if the lie, even the most enormous, ends up being imposed on the interlocutor.
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