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Key points from Vladimir Putin's speech to the Duma on March 1, 2024
Key points from Vladimir Putin's speech to the Duma on March 1, 2024Equality and Reconciliation - March 04, 2024
The International Network site provided the entire transcription of the Russian president's speech, which is very long. Sputniknews summarized it. Here it is.
West, nuclear weapons, economy:
the key points of Putin's message to the Russian Parliament
Like every year, the Russian President gave a speech to the Federal Assembly on February 29. This year, it focused on strategic tasks.
Special operation in Ukraine
- Russia has proven that it can respond to all challenges.
- The absolute majority of Russians supported the special military operation in Ukraine.
- The Russian armed forces have gained colossal experience.
- The Russian military has the initiative, the army is advancing firmly on a number of axes and liberating new territories.
- Russia will do everything to end the conflict, eradicate Nazism and carry out all the tasks of the special operation.
- The consequences of possible [Western] interventions will be much more tragic.
Arms
- Russian strategic nuclear forces are fully ready.
- The West chooses targets in Russia to strike, so it needs weapons. Moscow already has weapons capable of hitting targets in Western countries.
- The Sarmat complex has been delivered to the troops, we will reveal it soon.
- The Zircon sea-based hypersonic complex has already been used in combat, this system is already in service.
- Missiles of the Kinjal hypersonic complex are effectively used during the special military operation.
- Tests of the Bourevestnik nuclear cruise missile and the underwater drone capable of carrying a Poseidon thermonuclear charge are completed.
Nuclear threat
- New attempts to intervene in Russia are fraught with a large-scale conflict with the use of nuclear weapons.
- Disinformation about alleged Russian nuclear weapons in space aims to drag Russia into unequal negotiations.
- Everything the West is proposing really poses the risk of conflict with nuclear weapons, which will lead to the destruction of civilization.
- The West is trying to drag Russia into an arms race, to repeat the experience of the USSR in the 1980s.
Security in Europe
- The West caused the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and continues to lie.
- By declaring that Russia wants to attack Europe, the West is delirious.
- The actions of the United States are destroying the security system in Europe.
- Without a sovereign and strong Russia, a sustainable world order is impossible.
Defense of Russian sovereignty
- We did not start the war in Donbass, but we will do everything to end it, to uproot Nazism.
- The West, with its colonial habits, would like to see instead of Russia a dependent, dying, declining space.
- The West chooses targets in Russia to strike, so it needs weapons. Moscow already has weapons capable of hitting targets in Western countries.
- The West deliberately destroys moral norms and the family institute, while Russia chooses traditional life and values.
- Russia has been and remains a bastion of traditional values, our choice is shared by the majority of people in the world.
- We will not allow anyone to interfere in our internal affairs.
- It is necessary to strengthen the Russian military group in the west of the country given the accession to NATO of Sweden and Finland.
- It is necessary to form a new contour of global security. Russia is ready for dialogue with all countries.
- Russia's dialogue with ASEAN, Africa and Arab countries is developing positively.
- We see great prospects in building a broad Eurasian partnership.
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“Dear senators!
State Duma deputies!
Dear citizens of Russia!
Each speech to the Federal Assembly is above all a look towards the future. And today we will talk not only about our immediate plans, but also about strategic tasks, about those issues, the solution of which I consider to be of fundamental importance for the confident and long-term development of the country. »
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Bulletin N°140. Prigojineries, bloody crash test, French hypersonic
Bulletin N°140. Prigojineries, bloody crash test, French hypersonicStratpol - 01 Jul 2023
STRATPOL: bulletin n°140 by Xavier Moreau
06:15 – Prigojineries
12:10 – Gamelin Durakovlev
16:10 – What consequences for the Russian MinDef?
19:40 – Lukashenko on the front line
20:35 – Western Depression
22:25 – Arming
Heavy UAV “Okhotnik”
French hypersonic glider
NATO demilitarization
25:35 – Military Considerations
bloody crash test
SOS Zaluzhny
The Korean Solution
28:44 – Map of military operations
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Cancer as a weapon: sowing battlefields with depleted uranium
Cancer as a weapon: sowing battlefields with depleted uraniumThe Citizen's Gazette - 03 Apr 2023
Following the UK's inadmissible decision to send depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine, it may be worth re-examining the environmental and health consequences of the widespread use of these weapons by the US in Iraq. and in Kuwait during the first Gulf War.
At the end of the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein was denounced as a fierce villain for ordering his retreating troops to destroy Kuwaiti oil fields, coagulating the air with toxic clouds of black smoke and saturating the ground. crude swamps. This has rightly been called an environmental war crime.
But months of bombardment of Iraq by American and British planes and cruise missiles has left behind an even more deadly and insidious legacy: tons of casings, bullets and bomb fragments mixed with uranium. impoverished. In total, the United States struck Iraqi targets with more than 970 radioactive bombs and missiles.
It took less than a decade for the health consequences of this radioactive bombing campaign to begin to emerge.
And they are terrible, indeed. Iraqi doctors call it "the white death" - leukemia. Since 1990, the rate of leukemia patients in Iraq has increased by more than 600%. The situation is aggravated by Iraq's enforced isolation and the sadistic sanctions regime, recently described by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as "a humanitarian crisis", which makes the detection and treatment of cancers all the more difficult.
"We have evidence of traces of depleted uranium in samples taken for analysis and this squarely contradicts those who claim that cancer cases have increased for other reasons," said Dr Umid Mubarak, Iraqi Minister of Health. .
Dr Mubarak argues that US fear of facing the health and environmental consequences of its depleted uranium bombing campaign is partly to blame for its failure to meet its commitments under an agreement allowing Iraq to sell some of its vast oil reserves in exchange for food and medical supplies.
"Desert dust carries death," said Dr. Jawad Al-Ali, an oncologist and member of England's Royal Society of Physicians. “Our studies indicate that more than forty percent of the population around Basra will have cancer. We are witnessing another Hiroshima.”
Most leukemia and cancer victims are not soldiers. They are civilians. And many of them are children. The US-dominated Iraqi Sanctions Committee in New York has rejected repeated requests from Iraq for cancer treatment equipment and drugs, even painkillers like morphine. As a result, overwhelmed hospitals in cities like Basra are forced to treat cancer patients with aspirin.
It's part of a greater horror inflicted on Iraq which sees up to 180 children die every day, according to mortality figures compiled by UNICEF, from a catalog of 19th century diseases: cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis, e. coli, mumps, measles, flu.
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A formidable pro-nuclear propaganda
A formidable pro-nuclear propagandaAge to do - March 03, 2023
This is the best-selling book of the year 2022: The Endless World. Problem: this comic is a real propaganda tool for nuclear energy.
The success of the comic strip Le Monde sans fin is both excellent and very bad news. For good reason: this book is both excellent and very bad…
The excellent is in the first part, in which the designer Christophe Blain illustrates with humor and talent the words of Jean-Marc Jancovici, highlighting our dependence on the energy system. The authors recall in particular that there has never been an energy transition since the beginning of the industrial era: to wood was added coal, then oil, gas, hydroelectricity, before the arrival of nuclear and renewable energies.
Result: by multiplying the sources, we have multiplied our energy consumption. We would thus have become sorts of Iron Man who are unaware of each other, with at our service superpowers offered by the machines that we have at our service. Or even moguls surrounded by hundreds of invisible slaves: a tractor offers the labor force of 600 humans, an airplane is equivalent to the power of a million people.
To limit climate change, we must drastically reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, even though almost all of our activities depend on it. And it's not just about air travel: the hospital alone would also represent 5% of the French carbon footprint.
The book does not address issues of wealth sharing, public services or the advertising essential to the consumerist model. According to the very debatable vision that it conveys, our standard of living would depend on only one parameter: our energy consumption. If it drops, goodbye health, leisure, retirement, hello great migrations, wars, famines...
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Putin to the enemies of Russia: Approaching!
Putin to the enemies of Russia: Approaching!International Network - March 02, 2023
A good way to determine if you are still alive is to ask yourself if you can still feel wonder and amazement as you watch the changes sweeping through the world.
Most of these changes are gradual and difficult to detect in your daily experience. It is therefore useful for an important person to stand in front of you for an hour, as Putin did today in front of the Federal Assembly of Russia, and explain to you exactly what happened and what will happen .
It's also very entertaining: Putin is a naturally irrepressible person who refuses to hold back. His Russian also has a huge dynamic range: at one point he looks like a street urchin from Leningrad, and at another he sounds like a lawyer and an accomplished technocrat, a literary scholar or even a theology student. Well, it's all of these. Love him or hate him (few manage to stay neutral about him), it's hard to ignore. Especially since, as usual, his annual address to the Federal Assembly did not lack what linguists call performatives – statements that do not express an opinion or convey information but transform reality in a specific way. And it is important to know them, especially if you live in one of the countries whose leaders have (very stupidly) decided to be the enemies of Russia, because, in the end, it is your ass that is at stake. You may be in awe of the awesome leader named Vladimir Putin (nothing stopping you) but, more specifically, I believe it is my humanitarian duty to warn you of what is about to happen. pass before someone shouts "Coming!" ". This way you can formulate a better plan than covering yourself with a white sheet and slowly crawling towards the graveyard (so as not to cause a stampede in which someone could be trampled).
Let's start with the most important: Putin announced that Russia was suspending its participation in the START-3 treaty. It is the “Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, No. 3”. This treaty dates back to the Soviet era, but on February 3, 2021, the United States and Russia agreed to extend it until February 5, 2026. Mr Putin specified the conditions under which Russia would consider returning to the treaty : this must take into account the strategic offensive capabilities of all NATO countries, not just the United States. Britain and France also have nuclear weapons, although none too new, and Washington tends to send its nuclear weapons wherever it sees fit, including other NATO countries, such as Germany and Turkey, which poses a problem. Putin ridiculed NATO's calls for Russia to allow its experts to inspect Russian military sites; after drones recently carried out a strike on Russian airports that host its strategic aviation, damaging a few planes (using the Ukrainians as brainless proxies), such a request is more than ridiculous. Perhaps Russia should be allowed, out of courtesy, to blow up a number of US strategic bombers, just to even the score before starting negotiations? No ? Oh, well… Putin also pointed out that US strategic weapons are well past their expiration date (he was a bit more polite and circumspect, but that was the point, and those in the know also know that it was factual). Figuratively, when it comes to nuclear weapons, Washington's armory is in a sorry state; the cans are bulging and the burst ones smell really bad and leak vile substances.
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Livret A… the money collected will be used to build new nuclear power plants!
Livret A… the money collected will be used to build new nuclear power plants!Insolentiae - Feb 13, 2023
The government could mobilize savings from the Livret A to finance nuclear power.
A few weeks ago our Bruno Lumière de Bercy, our beacon of the economy, our helmsman of the sanctions that work against Russia, what am I saying the ace of aces of finances, told us precisely about the finances of France that there was no money problem since the French had plenty of it… money and savings, of course.
So for Bruno, the central question is how do you get your money?
In mamamouchi's modest language, we say "money is not a problem, we will always find it, what is important is the way in which the financial flows are oriented". I love the sense of understatement of our motorless ministry launch. Our Bruno is delicious.
And so, as it is necessary (finally) to build a few more nuclear power plants (rather than spending hundreds of billions to poorly insulate current housing), one wonders in high places how to find the money elsewhere than on the financial markets.
And there was light (nuclear of course).
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French nuclear reactors are already degrading before winter
French nuclear reactors are already degrading before winterJacob's Ladder - Nov 07, 2022
France's nuclear problems are worsening mainly due to routine maintenance of the country's 56 aging reactors.
According to a new update from EDF, prospects for nuclear power generation have been reduced ahead of winter, causing chaos in energy markets.
EDF is the largest owner of nuclear power plants in the world. It said Friday that its fleet of nuclear reactors should produce between 27.5 and 28.5 terawatt hours of energy this year, against an expected range of 28.0 to 30.0 terawatt hours.
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IAEA mission wants to move to Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
IAEA mission wants to move to Zaporizhia nuclear power plantGendarme profession - 02 Sep 2022
The mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in kyiv yesterday and is heading today for the atomic power plant in Zaporizhia, which the Ukrainian army continues to attack on the other side of the Dnieper.
Beyond the security dimension, which will depend on the orders given to the Ukrainians, this operation has an unavoidable political dimension. The local authorities have no illusions about the commitment of this organization and already contradictory statements are flourishing: between Grossi, who calls for a permanent mission, and the regional authorities who speak only of a one-day mission , the political fight is open.
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Sergey Lavrov - Russian Foreign Minister evokes a nuclear risk
Sergey Lavrov - Russian Foreign Minister evokes a nuclear riskRT France - Apr 27, 2022
Questioned by Russian television, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs gives us his point of view on the threats which weigh on the world, in particular the nuclear risk.
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For those who are afraid of a nuclear attack
For those who are afraid of a nuclear attackMichel Dogna – March 28, 2022
"Although I do not subscribe to this fear, which would be a stupid retelling of the war in Iraq, which caused 1,2 million deaths - not counting the thousands of congenital malformations and handicapped for life - because of the massive use of anti-tank rockets with depleted uranium, I concede to make the basic reminders never made on a News. » Dr Dogna
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Nuclear and war in Ukraine - Press review
Nuclear and war in Ukraine - Press reviewNuclear Observatory - March 3, 2022
At the time of writing, fighting is ongoing in Ukraine. The infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant (a reactor of which exploded on April 26, 1986, contaminating much of Europe) was invaded by Putin's troops. It should also be noted that this plant was definitively shut down at the end of 2000, so the danger is limited.
But fighting is taking place near other Ukrainian nuclear power plants. Unfortunately, the worst is possible. This situation dramatically illustrates the fact that nuclear countries, in particular France, are terribly vulnerable in the event of conflict...
Moreover, European companies that have seen fit to make a pact with the Russians to do atomic business find themselves in a very bad way. Always in the bad times, EDF is of course of the number. The worst in the current dramatic situation is that there is even a risk of nuclear war (see below), which would be fatal for life on Earth...
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Nuclear: radioactive leak in the groundwater of the Tricastin power plant
Nuclear: radioactive leak in the groundwater of the Tricastin power plantMedia Citizens Diois - Dec 22, 2021
A tritium leak was detected at the Tricastin nuclear power plant. EDF revealed it on Tuesday, December 21 after having declared a few days earlier, on December 15, to the nuclear safety authority a “significant event for the environment”.
Radioactive material, tritium, which can also be of natural origin, is discharged and collected in the effluents after the production of electricity in nuclear reactors.
