You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet

by Stephen Lendman

The above paraphrases what Vladimir Putin told Russia's lower house State Duma leaders and other party heads on Thursday.

The meeting focused on protecting vital state "interests and ensuring (its) sovereign, sustainable and effective development" at a time of all-out US-dominated NATO sanctions and proxy long war on Russia — what's heading perilously toward possible East/West confrontation with nukes.

After the empire of lies and forever wars forced Russia to intervene against Nazified Ukraine because three US regimes undermined its good faith conflict resolution efforts along its border, Moscow's only recourse was to "act decisively…and quickly" in self-defense.

Despite US/Western efforts to undermine Russia's economy, self-sufficiency "preserve(d) macroeconomic stability" — foiling their diabolical aims, said Putin, adding:

While US/Western sanctions war "creat(ed) difficulties for us, (they're) not as great as the initiators of this economic blitzkrieg…were counting on."

Their diabolical aim was also "to sow discord and confusion in our society and to demoralize people."

"But here too, they failed since nothing came of it, and I am sure nothing ever will."

"(O)ur firm position and conviction (is) that we are on the right side of history, on the unwavering resolve of the vast majority of the country's citizens to uphold Russia's sovereignty and to help our people in Donbass."

"This is what underlies the policy of our state in general."

Hegemon USA and its Western vassals "ha(ve) been extremely aggressive towards Russia for decades" — in flagrant breach of the UN Charter and other international law.

"Our proposals to create a system of equal security in Europe have been rejected."

"Initiatives for cooperation on the issue of missile defense were rejected."

"Warnings about the unacceptability of NATO expansion, especially at the expense of the former republics of the Soviet Union, were ignored."

Nearly everything relating to US/Western cooperative relations with Russia, according to the rule of law, was rejected by the empire of lies and forever wars on humanity.

Longstanding US policy by both wings of its war party is to undermine nations free from its control, to transform them into subservient vassals, to plunder their resources and exploit their people.

Hegemon USA — not Russia — launched war on Donbass after the Obama/Biden regime's 2014 coup, using Ukraine as a platform in pursuit of its aims.

As for Russia's liberating SMO, the US/West "should have realized that they would lose from the very beginning of" when it was launched in Feb., Putin stressed, adding:

Moscow's action "also…(advanced) a radical breakdown of the US-style world order." 

A "transition from (so-called) liberal-globalist American egocentrism to a truly multipolar world based not on self-serving rules made up by someone for their own needs, behind which there is nothing but striving for hegemony, not on hypocritical double standards, but on international law and the genuine sovereignty of nations and civilizations, on their will to live their historical destiny, with their own values and traditions, and to align cooperation on the basis of democracy, justice and equality."

What's going on "cannot be stopped."

Attempts otherwise by the US/West to continue imposing its will on humanity "are doomed."

Russia is far from isolated on the world stage. 

Reality is the other way around.

Most world community nations maintain normalized relations with Moscow, US/Western regimes and a few subservient ones the exceptions to the rule.

Even among US vassal states, there's "a growing understanding that their ruling elites' blind obedience to their overlord…does not…coincide with their national interests, and most often simply and even radically contradicts them," Putin explained.

"Eventually, everyone will have to face this growing sentiment in society."

US/Western states are fantasy democracies, never the real thing.

And over time, they've become more tyrannical by seeking to eradicate what little remains of greatly eroded freedoms internally.

They want free and open societies eliminated everywhere, seeking to transform the world community of nations into ruler/serf societies — what the diabolical new world order great reset is all about.

And this Vladimir Putin reality check:

"Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield."

"Well, what can I say? Let them try."

"We have already heard a lot about the West wanting to fight us 'to the last Ukrainian.' " 

"This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but that seems to be where it is going."

"But everyone should know that, by and large, we have not started anything in earnest yet."

US-dominated Western regimes opposed to conflict resolution talks "should know that the longer (Russia's SMO) goes on, the harder it will be for them to negotiate with us."

Time and again I stressed the futility of diplomatic outreach to the US/West by Russia and other nations free from their control.

The only language their ruling regimes understand is toughness.

No other course of action is effective in dealing with them — why it's a waste of time and effort trying.