Magnificent Putin exposes our lying, hypocritical, worthless leaders

I don’t suppose many readers had the time to watch the whole of Vladimir Putin’s speech yesterday. Being unemployed with nothing better to do, I saw the whole thing. My conclusion – Putin was wonderful. He was clear, focused, direct and devastating in the way he used withering sarcasm to expose the hypocrisy of our lying leaders.

Some of the points Putin made:

Crimea belonged to Russia – Crimea has been part of Russia for hundreds of years, apart from the brief period from 1954 to 2014.

Russia being pushed into a corner – The EU made a territory grab too far when it tried to pull the Ukraine away from Russia. Russia would not tolerate NATO tanks on its borders

Important naval base – Russia had its most important naval base in the Crimea and would not accept that base being handed over to NATO. As he said, “I would rather NATO troops came to visit us in the Crimea, than we came to visit them”

Clear referendum result – The referendum to become independent may have been rushed, but the results were so overwhelmingly in favour of independence that there could be no doubt that the Crimeans didn’t want to become part of an EU-controlled Ukraine

West’s hypocrisy over Ukrainian law – The West claims that the Crimea referendum for independence and then joining Russia broke Ukrainian law. However, when Kosovo broke Serbian law when it voted to become independent, the UN (pushed by the West) decided that the right of people to self-determination over-rode any national laws

West’s hypocrisy over international law – The West claims that Russia has broken international law by taking over the Crimea. Putin pointed out that after the West’s illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, it was good that the West finally remembered there was such a thing as international law

Nobody killed – When Putin made his speech, nobody had been killed in the Crimea, unlike the West’s disastrous military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan

Irresponsible statements from our leaders – Given the above points, Putin (correctly in my opinion) accused our leaders of making reckless and irresponsible statements and threats that could damage international relations and economic recovery.

But perhaps the most important message we can take from the Putin speech is the contrast between when Putin speaks and when our own leaders do. With Putin you know he says what he thinks and he’ll do what he says. You can’t really say the same for puffed-up, inane, lying, self-serving, greedy, incompetent muppets like Chameleon, Clogg, Milibrain, Baroness Pig, Kerry and President O’Bummer.

(By the way, Mr Cameron, please note how rapidly a referendum can be organised if a leader really wants one)