Putin's "annexation" speech has revealed his dangerous insanity to the whole world

In 2014, writing about Putin's illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimea, and his subsequent invasion of Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk, Karen Robes Meeks (left) reported that,

"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday compared recent
actions by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine to those implemented by Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s.

 "All the Germans that were ... the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they're not being treated right. I must go and protect my people, and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous." (Press Telegram : March 5, 2014) (my emphasis)

Putin's arguments for his annexation of Ukraine' Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions mirrors the arguments which Hitler used to invade and annex the Northern, Southern, and Western areas of Czechoslovakia in 1938, which Hitler referred to as the Sudetenland (Wikipedia)

As Reuters points out, in his annexation speech (30/09/2022) Putin proclaimed that,

• "I want the Kyiv authorities and their real masters in the West to hear me, so that they remember this. People living in Luhansk and Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are becoming our citizens. Forever. 
• "We are ready [for negotiations] ... But we will not discuss the choice of the people in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. That has been made. Russia will not betray them." 
• "The battlefield to which fate and history have called us is the battlefield for our people, for great historical Russia, for future generations, our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren." (Reuters : 30 September 2022) (my emphasis)

Putin's Annexation Speech 30 September 2022 : BBC News 30 September 2022

Aila Slisco : Newsweek : 30 September 2022

More ominously, however, he also proclaimed that,

"The United States is the only country in the world that has twice used nuclear weapons, destroying the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and setting a precedent." (ibid Reuters)

In other words, Putin is using the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW2 as legitimising HIS potential use of a nuclear weapon in his war with Ukraine.

 And now, as Hugo Bachega & James FitzGerald report,

"Russia has withdrawn its troops from the strategic Ukrainian town of Lyman, in a move seen as a significant setback for its campaign in the east.
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The retreat came amid fears thousands of soldiers would be encircled in the town, Russia's defence ministry said.
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Recapturing Lyman is of strategic significance for Ukraine.
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The town had been used as a logistics hub by Russia, and could give Ukrainian troops access to more territory in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions." (BBC News : 1 October 2022) (my emphasis)

This has led Ramzan Kadyrov (right), Putin's Chechen puppet, to openly call for the use of nuclear weapons by Putin.

As reported by John Varga, Liam Doyle, Sean Meleady,

" ... Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has reportedly told Vladimir Putin to consider using the nuclear option in Ukraine.... "

"... Mr Kadyrov wrote on Telegram: "In my personal opinion, more drastic measures should be taken, right up to the declaration of martial law in the border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons". ( : Express : 2 October 2022) (my emphasis)

This re-taking of the strategic town of Lyman from Putin's army in Donetsk, which Putin on Friday has "annexed" from Ukraine, gives us an insight into his delusional state of mind.

Indeed, during his speech of "annexation" (30/09/2022) Putin proclaimed that,

"The dictatorship of the Western elites is directed against all societies, including the peoples of the Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This is a complete denial of humanity, the overthrow of faith and traditional values. Indeed, the suppression of freedom itself has taken on the features of a religion: outright Satanism." (ibid Reuters)

As U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan (left) remarked,

"The fact that he's using words like 'Satanism' is to me precisely the kind of over the top rhetoric and ranting that you hear from someone who has no basis to justify what is a colonial and imperial land grab," said Sullivan. 

"Rather than fill in any kind of logic or moral defense of what he has done, he has to resort to these kinds of absurd arguments," he added. "And I think that can be plain for the world to see." (Aila Slisco (right): Newsweek: 30 September 2022) (my emphasis)

And it is these absurd arguments of Putin that, no doubt, has put many western nations on alert, especially the US and the UK, whom he singled out during his long  "annexation" speech.

As Alexei Goncharenko (left), Ukraine's MP for Odessa, stated,

"First of all I think that a psychiatrist should be invited to speak about it [Putin's speech] because ... he's insane inadequate person ... " (cf: towards end of BBC News video of Putin's speech) 

Indeed, absurd or not as many of his statements during his "annexation" speech may seem, Putin may heed the 'advice' of Kadyrov to, "[declare] .. martial law in the border areas and [to] use .. low-yield nuclear weapons" against the Ukrainian army, above the advice of his generals.

Putin's "annexation" speech has, more than anything else, revealed his insanity for the whole world to see.

 (to be continued)