Reality is a bitch. We all have our view of reality, with varying accuracy. Very often it is strongly biased because of external influence. The media is used to march in commentators whose principal merit is belonging to a certain favored minority class or favoring of a promoted illusionary ideology. Politicians who express common sense ideas that go against globalization agendas are kept out of this discussion and their speeches explained and twisted to fit the agenda. Here is such a speech of enormous importance.

"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else." George Orwell.

Presidential Address to Federal Assembly 

Vladimir Putin's address to the Federal Assembly, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow. February 21, 2023
This is a historic speech covering a lot of ground and explaining why Russia is acting like they are acting. We easily accuse people without listening to their side of the story. Most of us know the merits of the whorporate media, the first and foremost being dishonesty.

"This Presidential Address comes, as we all know, at a difficult, watershed period for our country. This is a time of radical, irreversible change in the entire world, of crucial historical events that will determine the future of our country and our people, a time when every one of us bears a colossal responsibility.

One year ago, to protect the people in our historical lands, to ensure the security of our country and to eliminate the threat coming from the neo-Nazi regime that had taken hold in Ukraine after the 2014 coup, it was decided to begin the special military operation. Step by step, carefully and consistently we will deal with the tasks we have at hand.

Since 2014, Donbass has been fighting for the right to live in their land and to speak their native tongue. It fought and never gave up amid the blockade, constant shelling and the Kiev regime’s overt hatred. It hoped and waited that Russia would come to help.

In the meantime, as you know well, we were doing everything in our power to solve this problem by peaceful means, and patiently conducted talks on a peaceful solution to this devastating conflict.

Behind our backs, a very different plan was being hatched. As we can see now, the promises of Western leaders, their assurances that they were striving for peace in Donbass turned out to be a sham and outright lies. They were simply marking time, engaged in political chicanery, turning a blind eye to the Kiev regime’s political assassinations and reprisals against undesirable people, their mistreatment of believers. They increasingly incited the Ukrainian neo-Nazis to stage terrorist attacks in Donbass. The officers of nationalist battalions trained at Western academies and schools. Weapons were also supplied."

There's a lot more.