After twenty-two years of unchallenged power at the head of Russia, Vladimir Putin no longer seems completely in tune with reality.
Friday, September 30, in a grandiose ceremony organized on Red Square in Moscow, the Russian President celebrated the annexation to Russia of four Ukrainian regions (oblasts).
But, at the same time, faced with a lightning Ukrainian offensive, the Russian army fled from the town of Lyman (20,000 inhabitants before the war), a strategic railway junction located in the oblast of Donetsk, one of the four allegedly annexed.
In the territorial expansion strategies of empires, control normally preceded annexation.
In his speech of September 30, Putin broke new ground, inventing annexation without control…
This speech also made extensive use of the rhetorical bias of accusatory inversion.
It is a technique of psychological manipulation, where you try to blame your opponent for your own mistakes...
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