The Activist Poet on The Freedom Convoy

 

The following is an excerpt, from my new book "The Activist Poet - Volume 3" which follows the poem "We Are Canadian!" on what it felt like when the "Freedom Convoy" began and rolled across Canada and then landed in Ottawa to stage a massive peaceful protest. -

We Are Canadian!

The Canadian trucker “Freedom Convoy 2022” was a spiritual godsend to millions of Canadians and an inspiration to many more millions if not billions of people around the world who’s lives and livelihoods had been or were in process of being destroyed by the ever-increasing medical tyranny by government mandates.

In essence, the Canadian trucker convoy and the millions of flag waving Canadians who rose up to greet the convoy on highways, overpasses and bridges, as it passed by their homes in rural and urban areas in the middle of a cold Canadian winter in 2022, sent a huge wave of hope across the country and broke the evil spell of fear cast upon the nation and the world by a treasonous collusion of governments, the World Health Organization, media and the powerful economic cartel behind it all.

The huge pushback against tyranny by ordinary people was a great sigh of relief in a country where government did not allow ANY dialog to be heard or seen that could challenge their COVID narrative.

In Quebec, the Canadian province where I live, provincial tyranny under dictator Francois Legault was in full dystopia. All of Quebec was under lockdown with a second curfew in place with mask mandates and vaccine mandates which he pushed even further by announcing that he was going to legislate a tax on the unvaccinated. We, the unvaccinated were already prevented from shopping at the large corporate stores, and security guards were set up to ensure it.

For two years people across Canada suffered under Federal and Provincial government COVID tyranny. However, when the momentum of the “Freedom Convoy” picked up and went viral across the internet, it was like a weight was lifted from our shoulders. All the stressful tension was relieved in one big exhale. It felt like we could breathe again.

For two years, my family and I felt like we were alone in a battle against a governing monster, but when the convoy started and people began to speak up and share the exact same fear and pain that we were experiencing, we smiled, our eyes filled with tears, and the pent-up emotions poured out. The spell was broken. There were others like us, millions like us in fact. We were not alone and we were certainly not “a small fringe minority”.

The Freedom Convoy gave us hope. It brought smiles and people together and gave us all a fighting chance. It was a national collective experience that was just as euphoric to me as the game winning goal in the final game of the 1972 summit series.

After a long hard-fought battle, we had a significant victory. I know, I experienced both moments in their own contexts and atmospheres 50 years apart. “Victory!”

Insults

In a September 2021 interview on a French-Canadian TV “program”, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called anti-covid vaccine mandate protesters, “racists” and “misogynists” and further said “we have to make a choice, in terms of leaders, in terms of the country. Do we tolerate these people?” and then later in January 2022, he called the Canadian truckers freedom convoy “a small fringe minority with unacceptable views”.

Is that any way for the Prime Minister of Canada to talk about Canadians? It’s pure hate speech. I mean, I thought the Prime Minister was supposed to champion freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of assembly and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? In my mind, there is nothing “unacceptable” about expressing one’s rights and freedoms!

The entire three-week protest experience was truly a historic moment in Canadian history, a moment when the people of the nation, with a grassroots movement, united against government tyranny and media collusion. All politicians in the provincial and federal parties, were decidedly pro vaccine mandate and they were against the protest that rose up across the country. If there were any politicians against the mandates, they certainly did not stand up and speak out! The one exception being Maxime Bernier of the Peoples Party of Canada.

The mainstream media also exposed themselves publicly as totally untrustworthy in the face of the powerful reality on the ground.

Government and media reports would try to demonize the protest movement and the organizers, saying that the Terry Fox monument was desecrated, that truckers had stolen food from a homeless shelter and that violent elements within the protest were desecrating the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. All of these accusations were false and seen as lies by online supporters who viewed the live coverage that alternative grassroots media and internet bloggers provided.

Everyone not in Ottawa, wanted to know what was happening in Ottawa especially on the first day the convoy arrived and so when the mainstream media did not cover the protest and speeches held on the flatbed truck stage, millions of people in Canada and around the world turned to the live internet feeds provided by activists filming the event.

People quickly saw that there were two conflicting narratives; a government narrative of lies perpetuated by mainstream media and the reality of events provided by grassroots media and internet vloggers.

Canadian monuments were not being desecrated, they were being protected and respected. The protest was not violent, it was a big block party attended by Canadians from all over Canada. They picked up after themselves, cleaned the streets and donated tons of food to the homeless shelters. Businesses that opened in Ottawa, were booming for the first time in two years.

The reality was totally different from what mainstream media was reporting to the public. In fact, the way mainstream media approached the protest was much the same as all the peaceful protests of the past with one exception, there were no agent provocateurs to give police a reason to violently crush the protest or events for media to film. Had they filmed the actual Freedom Convoy protest, the television audience would have seen the truth for themselves, that it was a massive peaceful protest in the middle of a Canadian winter.

No Agent Provocateurs

In the past, I have found that on more than one occasion (Examples: Montebello Quebec 2007, Toronto G8 & G20 Meeting 2010), agent provocateurs were brought in by government to cause trouble. These provocateurs or black block were caught outright on video being ushered behind police lines by the police at protest scenes and when mainstream media was informed, they ignored the proof and did not report or investigate the reality of the moment, nor did they hold governments feet to the fire for it. They instead, filmed the agent provocateurs burning abandoned police cars or rampaging in wild packs vandalizing community and breaking windows. They made a peaceful protest look like a violent one to their TV audience.

Agent provocateurs are brought in by government through the police force to justify the heavy presence of riot police and their break up of protests by means of brutality. The people who control our country, do not like their authority questioned and so the more important the topic, the more brutal their forces become.

Deliberate acts of violence by agent provocateurs did not happen in Ottawa when the Freedom Convoy and Canadian citizens staged their peaceful protest because there were a lot of former police and military vets involved with the protest security who made sure that if any trouble makers showed up, they would be dealt with quickly. But nothing happened, no black block, no agent provocateurs.

I’m pretty sure that is what ticked off Justin Trudeau so much and why he used the war measures act on the protest movement to break it up. Not only could the government not stop the peaceful protest, the government couldn't provide a violent scene for mainstream media to film so that they could spread disinformation on TV to build support against the protest.

Freedom Convoy support went viral and grew exponentially across the country. There were even a few politicians in the opposition and governing party’s that saw an opportunity to save their political faces and began warming up to the thoughts of ending government mandates. But that’s what politicians do; they slither to the popular trends.

When independent protests started to grow and spread to the borders of Ontario, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, Provincial government leaders, Jason Kenny of Alberta, and Scott Moe of Saskatchewan gave timelines for dropping the vaccine mandates. The grass roots pressure and determination to end the mandates began to work. In Quebec, dictator Francois Legault backed off on imposing fines on the unvaccinated.

People from around the world watching the live events unfold in Canada were inspired and began their own convoys in their own nations, and so the anti-vaccine mandate protest momentum began to build in countries across the world like Australia where months earlier their overly oppressive government had ordered police to fire rubber bullets at protesters who had gathered at their Nations War Memorial (October 2021) to protest the severe mandate’s they were under. There was no violence by protesters in Australia. The violence was by the state and its police force. The Australian government lied on mainstream news about the protesters, saying they were committing acts of vandalism on their war memorials and then used guns against them. The Australian mainstream media perpetuated the governments position, allowing violence against peaceful demonstrators…

The exact same dystopian narrative of vandalism on the countries war memorial was being pushed in Canada by government and mainstream media. However, the demonization of the Canadian protesters backfired as both government and mainstream media were outright exposed for lies as live feeds from bloggers all over the nation showed the stark reality that the entire protest was indeed peaceful with a carnival atmosphere; like a festive Canada day in January.

However, if history has taught us anything, it is this; when a despotic Government’s deception fails at demonizing a movement, the only overreaching tool left in their toolbox, is force.

The Emergencies Act

“The Emergencies Act” which morphed out of the “War Measures Act” did exactly what the old label embodies; a war by government on people within the nation. The Emergencies act is only supposed to be used for extreme emergencies, but to invoke it on peaceful protesters showed how tyrannical the Trudeau government was, and it did so in plain sight of the World.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was (and still is) so out of touch with reality, that he considered bringing in the Canadian army!

Just so we are clear on the severity of that prospect, Armies are used as a deadly force. The request alone, should tell everyone about the character of this sociopathic dictator Justin Trudeau. Good thing the Canadian Army turned him down! The Ottawa police however, were ready to go through with Trudeau’s threats to break up and destroy the protest. A protest Trudeau refused to communicate with or acknowledge as peaceful.

When the Prime Minister of Canada can’t even face the people that he’s paid to govern, but instead goes into hiding and then invokes the War Measures Act on peaceful Canadians, then not only does he show that he's clearly not a leader but that he’s an ignorant coward and a tyrant. The best thing he could have done after such a dystopian use of power was to resign! However, dictators don’t resign, do they?

In the three weeks that the protest lasted, the Canadian Freedom Convoy changed the tide in the Canadian Provincial government’s vaccine mandate war on the population. We won a battle, but the war is not over yet, even at the time of completing this book (September 2022), the bast%$#@'s in charge never rest and are still pushing forward with their continued coercion on dangerous COVID mRNA inoculations.

Trudeau and the majority of Canadian politicians continue to demonized all Canadian’s that participated or supported the Freedom Convoy, calling us terrorists. The only violent act that happened during the protest was by government who weaponized the police to violently break up the protest; they even charged into peaceful protesters with horses. It was like a scene out of a British Colonial horror movie.

Freedom Convoy organizers are still being harassed, thrown in jail by government authorities and forbidden to use the Internet or communicate with each other. This is all while the criminals in government continue to get away with the destruction of our nation. To use Trudeau’s words, “Do we tolerate such people?” and do we have an uncompromised justice system? The answer is “NO” because all the government cases against the protesters, are illegal and should have been thrown out due to the reality and circumstances.

If anyone is guilty and should go to jail, it’s Justin Trudeau for gross misuse of power by invoking the Emergencies Act and Jagmeet Singh for supporting him against peaceful Canadians expressing their rights under the “Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms”.

So, it’s important that we stand together and fight for our rights and freedoms in this country, for if we do, we will retain them, but if we do not, we will lose everything including our identity.

Trudeau is STILL pushing these extremely dangerous shots and only announced that they would remove travel restrictions at the end of September 2022.

Canadians were subjected to dystopian travel measures through a mandatory travel app called “Arrive Can” which infringed on peoples Rights and Freedoms while also subjecting returning Canadians to thousands of dollars in fines or thousands of dollars in mandatory quarantine hotels, especially on the unvaccinated.

The only reason Trudeau is still in power is because his minority Liberal government is supported by the anti-Canadian Jagmeet Singh NDP party who has called us all (the protest movement) terrorists and vowed to support Trudeau to keep him in power which could be for the next four years!!

Who could support an anti-Canadian like that? Has the NDP turned against Canadians? It certainly appears so. Maybe NDP members should revoke their support for Jagmeet Singh and apologize to Canadians for their leaders’ unacceptable behavior…Tommy Douglas must be rolling in his grave…if it were me, I’d push for investigating Jagmeet Singh for collusion, bribery and corruption at the very least.

Although it seems hopeless, when those being peaceful and lawful are demonized and attacked by the tyrants in power, including the attack of silence by our mainstream media; more Canadians are now aware of just how treasonous and sinister our Canadian federal and provincial governments are while they have seen just how dishonest the mainstream media are.

Maybe the Canadian people will not be hoodwinked so easily the next time Canadian politicians push dystopian mandates that infringe on our Rights and Freedoms…Fingers crossed.

Here is one of a thousand videos that captured the spirit of Canadians as the Freedom Convoy 2022.

and what it was about...

Canadian Trucker Freedom Convoy 2022 - 1st Press Conference

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The Activist Poet Vol 3 is more than a book of poetry, it is a book of truth and information with social, political and economic commentary.

Topics covered span the insane years of 2021 - 2022 including, Coerced Inoculations, the Govt Health Pass, Fighting Back, the Freedom Convoy, Ukraine, Europe, Energy Supplies, Economic Collapse, the Decline of Europe and North America, the US / NATO Proxy War on Russia and the Establishments End Game.

Also included are important links, messages and two dedications to people that have influenced my activism, “Eva Bartlett” and “Michael C. Ruppert”. It is my way of saying thank you. 😊

May the words in this book open eyes and unite people across Canada and across the world.

The following is inspired by a Mark Twain quote but modified to reflect current times…

“Our livelihoods, rights and freedoms are never in greater danger than when our governments are in session.” ~ Stewart Brennan

The Activist Poet Volume 3

Now available at Amazon World Wide

For Amazon Canada, click here.

The Activist Poet - Volume 3

 

My 3rd and final book in the Activist Poet series is now available at Amazon!

Official Website

The Activist Poet Vol 3 is more than a book of poetry, it is a book of truth and information with social, political and economic commentary.

Topics covered span the insane years of 2021 - 2022 including, Coerced Inoculations, the Govt Health Pass, Fighting Back, the Freedom Convoy, Ukraine, Europe, Energy Supplies, Economic Collapse, the Decline of Europe and North America, the US / NATO Proxy War on Russia and the Establishments End Game.

Also included are important links, messages and two dedications to people that have influenced my activism, "Eva Bartlett" and "Michael C. Ruppert". It is my way of saying thank you. 😊

May the words in this book open eyes and unite people across Canada and across the world.

The following is inspired by a Mark Twain quote but modified to reflect current times…

“Our livelihoods, rights and freedoms are never in greater danger than when our governments are in session.” ~ Stewart Brennan

The Activist Poet Volume 3

Now available at Amazon World Wide

For Amazon Canada click here

Crimean Bridge Attacked

 

Comment By: Stewart Brennan

I'm sure this US guided Ukraine attack in Crimea was to draw the Russians into an all-out war in Ukraine as it leaves no other options for Vladimir Putin. It is a direct attack on the Russian presidency as well. The west wants war and is desperate to draw Russia into their operation of a long-protracted war but also wants regime change while saying Vladimir Putin will use atomic weapons on Ukraine...we all know the US false flag script which of course happened in Syria where the terrorists the US supported used chemical weapons and then blamed the Syrian government, all of which was proven false.

This US operation has not ended. Vladimir Putin has no choice but to strike back hard, and that's when the US false flag will occur, if indeed it comes to pass. Personally, I think Putin has been holding back the inner demon, which quite literally is in all of us. Now I think we'll see a more direct focus. Vladimir Putin’s address to this blatant attack on Russian soil will be coming shortly, just after the Russian's strike back hard with conventional weapons. He will sternly warn the USA and NATO members again and this time the Russian military's actions will be an exclamation point. Otherwise, Vladimir Putin will lose support, which is also something the west desperately wants.

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News Source: RT

Crimean Bridge explosion just ‘the beginning,’ Ukraine says

Russia’s Anti-Terrorism Committee earlier said the key infrastructure was damaged by a truck blast

The blast that rocked the Crimean Bridge early on Saturday is just “the beginning,” a top aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has warned.

“Crimea, the bridge, the beginning,” Mikhail Podoliak tweeted. “Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled.” The former journalist, who is effectively the Kiev regime's main propagandist, controls the president's "information policy."

He previously warned, in August, that that Europe’s largest bridge “should be destroyed” because it’s “an illegal construction and the main gateway to supply the Russian army in Crimea.”

The crossing was closed in the early hours of Saturday after a truck exploded, damaging the road and causing a huge fire.

Ukrainian officials have promised to attack the Crimean Bridge, which connects the Russian peninsula of Crimea to the country’s Krasnodar Region, on numerous occasions during the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.

Zelensky and other members of his team have also threatened that Ukraine will use force to retake Crimea, which overwhelmingly voted to reunite with Russia in a referendum in 2014.

The blast occurred at around 6am local time, causing a partial collapse of the road on the section for vehicles. A blaze also broke out on the parallel rail section, where seven fuel tanks caught fire. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said that a truck exploded as it was traveling along the 19-km-long structure.

The fire has been extinguished, and the damage caused by the blast is being assessed. The Crimean authorities said a ferry service will be provided while the bridge is being repaired.

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Vladimir Putin - On Accession of Former Ukrainian Territories

 

Vladimir Putin - On Accession of Former Ukrainian Territories (Sept 30th, 2022)

Source of Official Text: Kremlin.ru

‘Russia will always be Russia’: Putin’s full speech on accession of former Ukrainian territories (VIDEO)

Russian president: Incorporation of Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions fixes historical injustices and defies the “colonial” West

By recognizing the free will of the residents of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye, Russia has embraced people who share its history and culture and repaired some of the injustices created by the Soviet Union and its destruction, President Vladimir Putin claimed in Moscow on Friday.

He added that Ukraine intended to target Russian speakers within its borders with the same treatment that the “colonial” West wants to inflict upon the entire world in its desire for hegemony.

Below is the full text of Vladimir Putin’s speech, published by the Kremlin’s official website:

Citizens of Russia, citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, residents of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, deputies of the State Duma, senators of the Russian Federation,

As you know, referendums have been held in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. The ballots have been counted and the results have been announced. The people have made their unequivocal choice.

Today we will sign treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye Region and Kherson Region to the Russian Federation. I have no doubt that the Federal Assembly will support the constitutional laws on the accession to Russia and the establishment of four new regions, our new constituent entities of the Russian Federation, because this is the will of millions of people.

It is undoubtedly their right, an inherent right sealed in Article 1 of the UN Charter, which directly states the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.

I repeat, it is an inherent right of the people. It is based on our historical affinity, and it is that right that led generations of our predecessors, those who built and defended Russia for centuries since the period of Ancient Rus, to victory.

Here in Novorossiya, [Pyotr] Rumyantsev, [Alexander] Suvorov and [Fyodor] Ushakov fought their battles, and Catherine the Great and [Grigory] Potemkin founded new cities. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought here to the bitter end during the Great Patriotic War.

We will always remember the heroes of the Russian Spring, those who refused to accept the neo-Nazi coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014, all those who died for the right to speak their native language, to preserve their culture, traditions and religion, and for the very right to live. We remember the soldiers of Donbass, the martyrs of the “Odessa Khatyn,” the victims of inhuman terrorist attacks carried out by the Kiev regime. We commemorate volunteers and militiamen, civilians, children, women, senior citizens, Russians, Ukrainians, people of various nationalities; popular leader of Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko; military commanders Arsen Pavlov and Vladimir Zhoga, Olga Kochura and Alexei Mozgovoy; prosecutor of the Lugansk Republic Sergei Gorenko; paratrooper Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov and all our soldiers and officers who died a hero’s death during the special military operation. They are heroes. Heroes of great Russia. Please join me in a minute of silence to honour their memory.

Behind the choice of millions of residents in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, is our common destiny and thousand-year history. People have passed this spiritual connection on to their children and grandchildren. Despite all the trials they endured, they carried the love for Russia through the years. This is something no one can destroy. That is why both older generations and young people – those who were born after the tragic collapse of the Soviet Union – have voted for our unity, for our common future.

In 1991 in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, representatives of the party elite of that time made a decision to terminate the Soviet Union, without asking ordinary citizens what they wanted, and people suddenly found themselves cut off from their homeland. This tore apart and dismembered our national community and triggered a national catastrophe. Just like the government quietly demarcated the borders of Soviet republics, acting behind the scenes after the 1917 revolution, the last leaders of the Soviet Union, contrary to the direct expression of the will of the majority of people in the referendum of 1991, destroyed our great country, and simply made the people in the former republics face this as an accomplished fact.

I can admit that they didn’t even know what they were doing and what consequences their actions would have in the end. But it doesn't matter now. There is no Soviet Union anymore; we cannot return to the past. Actually, Russia no longer needs it today; this isn’t our ambition. But there is nothing stronger than the determination of millions of people who, by their culture, religion, traditions, and language, consider themselves part of Russia, whose ancestors lived in a single country for centuries. There is nothing stronger than their determination to return to their true historical homeland.

For eight long years, people in Donbass were subjected to genocide, shelling and blockades; in Kherson and Zaporozhye, a criminal policy was pursued to cultivate hatred for Russia, for everything Russian. Now too, during the referendums, the Kiev regime threatened schoolteachers, women who worked in election commissions with reprisals and death. Kiev threatened millions of people who came to express their will with repression. But the people of Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson weren’t broken, and they had their say.

I want the Kiev authorities and their true handlers in the West to hear me now, and I want everyone to remember this: the people living in Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporozhye have become our citizens, forever.

We call on the Kiev regime to immediately cease fire and all hostilities; to end the war it unleashed back in 2014 and return to the negotiating table. We are ready for this, as we have said more than once. But the choice of the people in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson will not be discussed. The decision has been made, and Russia will not betray it. Kiev’s current authorities should respect this free expression of the people’s will; there is no other way. This is the only way to peace.

We will defend our land with all the forces and resources we have, and we will do everything we can to ensure the safety of our people. This is the great liberating mission of our nation.

We will definitely rebuild the destroyed cities and towns, the residential buildings, schools, hospitals, theatres and museums. We will restore and develop industrial enterprises, factories, infrastructure, as well as the social security, pension, healthcare and education systems.

We will certainly work to improve the level of security. Together we will make sure that citizens in the new regions can feel the support of all the people of Russia, of the entire nation, all the republics, territories and regions of our vast Motherland.

Friends, colleagues.

Today I would like to address our soldiers and officers who are taking part in the special military operation, the fighters of Donbass and Novorossiya, those who went to military recruitment offices after receiving a call-up paper under the executive order on partial mobilisation, and those who did this voluntarily, answering the call of their hearts. I would like to address their parents, wives and children, to tell them what our people are fighting for, what kind of enemy we are up against, and who is pushing the world into new wars and crises and deriving blood-stained benefits from this tragedy.

Our compatriots, our brothers and sisters in Ukraine who are part of our united people have seen with their own eyes what the ruling class of the so-called West have prepared for humanity as a whole. They have dropped their masks and shown what they are really made of.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the West decided that the world and all of us would permanently accede to its dictates. In 1991, the West thought that Russia would never rise after such shocks and would fall to pieces on its own. This almost happened. We remember the horrible 1990s, hungry, cold and hopeless. But Russia remained standing, came alive, grew stronger and occupied its rightful place in the world.

Meanwhile, the West continued and continues looking for another chance to strike a blow at us, to weaken and break up Russia, which they have always dreamed about, to divide our state and set our peoples against each other, and to condemn them to poverty and extinction. They cannot rest easy knowing that there is such a great country with this huge territory in the world, with its natural wealth, resources and people who cannot and will not do someone else’s bidding.

The West is ready to cross every line to preserve the neo-colonial system which allows it to live off the world, to plunder it thanks to the domination of the dollar and technology, to collect an actual tribute from humanity, to extract its primary source of unearned prosperity, the rent paid to the hegemon. The preservation of this annuity is their main, real and absolutely self-serving motivation. This is why total de-sovereignisation is in their interest. This explains their aggression towards independent states, traditional values and authentic cultures, their attempts to undermine international and integration processes, new global currencies and technological development centres they cannot control. It is critically important for them to force all countries to surrender their sovereignty to the United States.

In certain countries, the ruling elites voluntarily agree to do this, voluntarily agree to become vassals; others are bribed or intimidated. And if this does not work, they destroy entire states, leaving behind humanitarian disasters, devastation, ruins, millions of wrecked and mangled human lives, terrorist enclaves, social disaster zones, protectorates, colonies and semi-colonies. They don't care. All they care about is their own benefit.

I want to underscore again that their insatiability and determination to preserve their unfettered dominance are the real causes of the hybrid war that the collective West is waging against Russia. They do not want us to be free; they want us to be a colony. They do not want equal cooperation; they want to loot. They do not want to see us a free society, but a mass of soulless slaves.

They see our thought and our philosophy as a direct threat. That is why they target our philosophers for assassination. Our culture and art present a danger to them, so they are trying to ban them. Our development and prosperity are also a threat to them because competition is growing. They do not want or need Russia, but we do.

I would like to remind you that in the past, ambitions of world domination have repeatedly shattered against the courage and resilience of our people. Russia will always be Russia. We will continue to defend our values and our Motherland.

The West is counting on impunity, on being able to get away with anything. As a matter of fact, this was actually the case until recently. Strategic security agreements have been trashed; agreements reached at the highest political level have been declared tall tales; firm promises not to expand NATO to the east gave way to dirty deception as soon as our former leaders bought into them; missile defence, intermediate-range and shorter-range missile treaties have been unilaterally dismantled under far-fetched pretexts.

And all we hear is, the West is insisting on a rules-based order. Where did that come from anyway? Who has ever seen these rules? Who agreed or approved them? Listen, this is just a lot of nonsense, utter deceit, double standards, or even triple standards! They must think we’re stupid.

Russia is a great thousand-year-old power, a whole civilisation, and it is not going to live by such makeshift, false rules.

It was the so-called West that trampled on the principle of the inviolability of borders, and now it is deciding, at its own discretion, who has the right to self-determination and who does not, who is unworthy of it. It is unclear what their decisions are based on or who gave them the right to decide in the first place. They just assumed it.

That is why the choice of the people in Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson makes them so furiously angry. The West does not have any moral right to weigh in, or even utter a word about freedom of democracy. It does not and it never did.

Western elites not only deny national sovereignty and international law. Their hegemony has pronounced features of totalitarianism, despotism and apartheid. They brazenly divide the world into their vassals – the so-called civilised countries – and all the rest, who, according to the designs of today's Western racists, should be added to the list of barbarians and savages. False labels like “rogue country” or “authoritarian regime” are already available, and are used to stigmatise entire nations and states, which is nothing new. There is nothing new in this: deep down, the Western elites have remained the same colonisers. They discriminate and divide peoples into the top tier and the rest.

We have never agreed to and will never agree to such political nationalism and racism. What else, if not racism, is the Russophobia being spread around the world? What, if not racism, is the West’s dogmatic conviction that its civilisation and neoliberal culture is an indisputable model for the entire world to follow? “You’re either with us or against us.” It even sounds strange.

Western elites are even shifting repentance for their own historical crimes on everyone else, demanding that the citizens of their countries and other peoples confess to things they have nothing to do with at all, for example, the period of colonial conquests.

It is worth reminding the West that it began its colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, followed by the worldwide slave trade, the genocide of Indian tribes in America, the plunder of India and Africa, the wars of England and France against China, as a result of which it was forced to open its ports to the opium trade. What they did was get entire nations hooked on drugs and purposefully exterminated entire ethnic groups for the sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting people like animals. This is contrary to human nature, truth, freedom and justice.

While we – we are proud that in the 20th century our country led the anti-colonial movement, which opened up opportunities for many peoples around the world to make progress, reduce poverty and inequality, and defeat hunger and disease.

To emphasise, one of the reasons for the centuries-old Russophobia, the Western elites’ unconcealed animosity toward Russia is precisely the fact that we did not allow them to rob us during the period of colonial conquests and forced the Europeans to trade with us on mutually beneficial terms. This was achieved by creating a strong centralised state in Russia, which grew and got stronger based on the great moral values​​of Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, as well as Russian culture and the Russian word that were open to all.

There were numerous plans to invade Russia. Such attempts were made during the Time of Troubles in the 17th century and in the period of ordeals after the 1917 revolution. All of them failed. The West managed to grab hold of Russia’s wealth only in the late 20th century, when the state had been destroyed. They called us friends and partners, but they treated us like a colony, using various schemes to pump trillions of dollars out of the country. We remember. We have not forgotten anything.

A few days ago, people in Donetsk and Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye declared their support for restoring our historical unity. Thank you!

Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited, and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and hypocritical through and through.

The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent.

Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world.

The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons.

It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour.

They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical research.

It is their destructive policies, wars and plunder that have unleashed today’s massive wave of migrants. Millions of people endure hardships and humiliation or die by the thousands trying to reach Europe.

They are exporting grain from Ukraine now. Where are they taking it under the guise of ensuring the food security of the poorest countries? Where is it going? They are taking it to the self-same European countries. Only five percent has been delivered to the poorest countries. More cheating and naked deception again.

In effect, the American elite is using the tragedy of these people to weaken its rivals, to destroy nation states. This goes for Europe and for the identities of France, Italy, Spain and other countries with centuries-long histories.

Washington demands more and more sanctions against Russia and the majority of European politicians obediently go along with it. They clearly understand that by pressuring the EU to completely give up Russian energy and other resources, the United States is practically pushing Europe toward deindustrialisation in a bid to get its hands on the entire European market. These European elites understand everything – they do, but they prefer to serve the interests of others. This is no longer servility but direct betrayal of their own peoples. God bless, it is up to them.

But the Anglo-Saxons believe sanctions are no longer enough and now they have turned to subversion. It seems incredible but it is a fact – by causing explosions on Nord Stream’s international gas pipelines passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, they have actually embarked on the destruction of Europe’s entire energy infrastructure. It is clear to everyone who stands to gain. Those who benefit are responsible, of course.

The dictates of the US are backed up by crude force, on the law of the fist. Sometimes it is beautifully wrapped sometimes there is no wrapping at all but the gist is the same – the law of the fist. Hence, the deployment and maintenance of hundreds of military bases in all corners of the world, NATO expansion, and attempts to cobble together new military alliances, such as AUKUS and the like. Much is being done to create a Washington-Seoul-Tokyo military-political chain. All states that possess or aspire to genuine strategic sovereignty and are capable of challenging Western hegemony, are automatically declared enemies.

These are the principles that underlie US and NATO military doctrines that require total domination. Western elites are presenting their neocolonialist plans with the same hypocrisy, claiming peaceful intentions, talking about some kind of deterrence. This evasive word migrates from one strategy to another but really only means one thing – undermining any and all sovereign centres of power.

We have already heard about the deterrence of Russia, China and Iran. I believe next in line are other countries of Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, as well as current US partners and allies. After all, we know that when they are displeased, they introduce sanctions against their allies as well – against this or that bank or company. This is their practice and they will expand it. They have everything in their sights, including our next-door neighbours – the CIS countries.

At the same time, the West has clearly been engaged in wishful thinking for a long time. In launching the sanctions blitzkrieg against Russia, for example, they thought that they could once again line up the whole world at their command. As it turns out, however, such a bright prospect does not excite everyone – other than complete political masochists and admirers of other unconventional forms of international relations. Most states refuse to ”snap a salute“ and instead choose the sensible path of cooperation with Russia.

The West clearly did not expect such insubordination. They simply got used to acting according to a template, to grab whatever they please, by blackmail, bribery, intimidation, and convinced themselves that these methods would work forever, as if they had fossilised in the past.

Such self-confidence is a direct product not only of the notorious concept of exceptionalism – although it never ceases to amaze – but also of the real ”information hunger“ in the West. The truth has been drowned in an ocean of myths, illusions and fakes, using extremely aggressive propaganda, lying like Goebbels. The more unbelievable the lie, the quicker people will believe it – that is how they operate, according to this principle.

But people cannot be fed with printed dollars and euros. You can't feed them with those pieces of paper, and the virtual, inflated capitalisation of western social media companies can't heat their homes. Everything I am saying is important. And what I just said is no less so: you can't feed anyone with paper – you need food; and you can't heat anyone’s home with these inflated capitalisations – you need energy.

That is why politicians in Europe have to convince their fellow citizens to eat less, take a shower less often and dress warmer at home. And those who start asking fair questions like “Why is that, in fact?” are immediately declared enemies, extremists and radicals. They point back at Russia and say: that is the source of all your troubles. More lies.

I want to make special note of the fact that there is every reason to believe that the Western elites are not going to look for constructive ways out of the global food and energy crisis that they and they alone are to blame for, as a result of their long-term policy, dating back long before our special military operation in Ukraine, in Donbass. They have no intention of solving the problems of injustice and inequality. I am afraid they would rather use other formulas they are more comfortable with.

And here it is important to recall that the West bailed itself out of its early 20th century challenges with World War I. Profits from World War II helped the United States finally overcome the Great Depression and become the largest economy in the world, and to impose on the planet the power of the dollar as a global reserve currency. And the 1980s crisis – things came to a head in the 1980s again – the West emerged from it unscathed largely by appropriating the inheritance and resources of the collapsed and defunct Soviet Union. That's a fact.

Now, in order to free itself from the latest web of challenges, they need to dismantle Russia as well as other states that choose a sovereign path of development, at all costs, to be able to further plunder other nations’ wealth and use it to patch their own holes. If this does not happen, I cannot rule out that they will try to trigger a collapse of the entire system, and blame everything on that, or, God forbid, decide to use the old formula of economic growth through war.

Russia is aware of its responsibility to the international community and will make every effort to ensure that cooler heads prevail.

The current neocolonial model is ultimately doomed; this much is obvious. But I repeat that its real masters will cling to it to the end. They simply have nothing to offer the world except to maintain the same system of plundering and racketeering.

They do not give a damn about the natural right of billions of people, the majority of humanity, to freedom and justice, the right to determine their own future. They have already moved on to the radical denial of moral, religious, and family values.

Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. Now I would like to return to what I said and want to address also all citizens of the country – not just the colleagues that are in the hall – but all citizens of Russia: do we want to have here, in our country, in Russia, “parent number one, parent number two and parent number three” (they have completely lost it!) instead of mother and father? Do we want our schools to impose on our children, from their earliest days in school, perversions that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want to drum into their heads the ideas that certain other genders exist along with women and men and to offer them gender reassignment surgery? Is that what we want for our country and our children? This is all unacceptable to us. We have a different future of our own.

Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” – pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” These poisonous fruits are already obvious to people, and not only in our country but also in all countries, including many people in the West itself.

The world has entered a period of a fundamental, revolutionary transformation. New centres of power are emerging. They represent the majority – the majority! – of the international community. They are ready not only to declare their interests but also to protect them. They see in multipolarity an opportunity to strengthen their sovereignty, which means gaining genuine freedom, historical prospects, and the right to their own independent, creative and distinctive forms of development, to a harmonious process.

As I have already said, we have many like-minded people in Europe and the United States, and we feel and see their support. An essentially emancipatory, anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is taking shape in the most diverse countries and societies. Its power will only grow with time. It is this force that will determine our future geopolitical reality.

Friends,

Today, we are fighting for a just and free path, first of all for ourselves, for Russia, in order to leave dictate and despotism in the past. I am convinced that countries and peoples understand that a policy based on the exceptionalism of whoever it may be and the suppression of other cultures and peoples is inherently criminal, and that we must close this shameful chapter. The ongoing collapse of Western hegemony is irreversible. And I repeat: things will never be the same.

The battlefield to which destiny and history have called us is a battlefield for our people, for the great historical Russia. For the great historical Russia, for future generations, our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We must protect them against enslavement and monstrous experiments that are designed to cripple their minds and souls.

Today, we are fighting so that it would never occur to anyone that Russia, our people, our language, or our culture can be erased from history. Today, we need a consolidated society, and this consolidation can only be based on sovereignty, freedom, creation, and justice. Our values ​​are humanity, mercy and compassion.

And I want to close with the words of a true patriot Ivan Ilyin: “If I consider Russia my Motherland, that means that I love as a Russian, contemplate and think, sing and speak as a Russian; that I believe in the spiritual strength of the Russian people. Its spirit is my spirit; its destiny is my destiny; its suffering is my grief; and its prosperity is my joy.”

Behind these words stands a glorious spiritual choice, which, for more than a thousand years of Russian statehood, was followed by many generations of our ancestors. Today, we are making this choice; the citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and the residents of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have made this choice. They made the choice to be with their people, to be with their Motherland, to share in its destiny, and to be victorious together with it.

The truth is with us, and behind us is Russia!