Putin's full Crimea speech annotated
"Annotated" with recurrent interruptions by Bridget Kendall, protesting and contradicting Putin every step of the way, defending and asserting the position of the Western governments.
Why did BBC NEWS feel the need to be so partisan here, where a simple transcript/translation was wanted?
Putin's complaints about 'containment' are perfectly accurate and even mild, in view of the brutal dismemberment of the collapsed Soviet Union and the subsequent behavior of the Western alliance toward Russia.
The Western powers and the Western press have played a stupid and bigoted role frighteningly reminiscent of the run-ups to both of Europe's - and America's - disastrous wars of the 20th Century.
The reaction of the West to the Russian response to the coup in Ukraine, while not greatly surprising, fills me with dismay and fears where it will lead.
And be it noted the Russian people are deliriously cheered by Crimea' s return.
Putin spoke and throughout this crisis has acted not all on his own but for Russia.
Thank God for this.
President Barack Obama ruled out US military involvement in Ukraine on Wednesday, saying: "We do not need to trigger an actual war with Russia."
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