... most important statements from Putin not that it is new but in its openly aggressive repudiation of what has been done to Russia by the parasitic strata of thieves and degenerate "creative class" which serves them.
"What ... b... ' (he almost says this-blyat') elites', they stole money somewhere, fan their fingers and call themselves elite? What elite? Those who defend Motherland--that's the people, that's the elite. Future belongs to them. And it will not be scary to leave the country to these people." The passion in this statement, the openly expressed contempt to a huge portion of the so called liberda and those who continue to work for them, especially "creative" class. This short 20 second segment is one of the most powerful POLICY statements from Putin in a long time.
Meanwhile, while Russians have been blessing and eating their kulichi with all kinds of people:
Dmitry Anatolievich Medvedev prepared his kulich.
NATO, European especially, should pray for the health and longevity of Vladimir Vladimirovich, because the guy who comes after him ... boy, I wouldn't want to be a globalist or neocon shill. And yes, these people who come (already are coming) as new Russian real elites--they are not coming unlike victorious Red Army soldiers in 1945 to hungry and utterly demolished country. Nope, these guys are already the part of thriving economic and military superpower. And as Daniel correctly noted today during our conversation--when even fanatical neocon Keane recognizes what has happened, that tells you something. The next few days will tell us if DJT will use the offramp which is now ready, now is the time to take it.