summoning of history, anti-Western rhetoric and reversal of the situation

There was only Vladimir Putin in the text. The Russian president held a speech this Friday in the Kremlin devoted to the annexation of four Ukrainian regions by Russia, following the referendums denounced by kyiv and its Western allies. The speech of the master of the Kremlin turned out to be a 100% Putin speech.

Russian Ukrainian regions forever

The leader summoned the thousand-year-old history between Russia and Ukraine, which would like the regions at war to have always been Russian, and that the Ukrainian years are only an accident of history. An accident that Vladimir Putin wants to correct, in a way, by protecting the Russian-speaking populations from “genocide”.

Denounce the economic and ideological colonialism of the West

In this speech, the master of the Kremlin also used the anti-Western rhetoric, the economic and ideological colonialism of the West. Remarks made to potentially sympathetic or allied countries, and especially to the Russian population. This is important in this context, where the people are frightened by military mobilization.

It is about the reaffirmation of societal values ​​and arguments on the degeneration of mores. It is the West, against which we must defend ourselves, and this strategy works very well in the country.

It is kyiv that must cease fire

Finally, Vladimir Putin has used a classic reversal of the situation: it is Ukraine that has attacked, it is kyiv that must cease fire and return to the negotiating table. Finally, apart from the accusation against the West for the sabotage of the gas pipelines and the annexations, this speech delivered this Friday teaches nothing new.

In hollow, this speech recalls that henceforth, to bombard the new Russian regions means to bombard the Russian Federation. The level of uncertainty as to its new consequences in terms of aftershocks remains total.