President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Western sanctions on Russia were akin to a declaration of war and warned that any attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine would lead to catastrophic consequences for the world.
God save us from the war-mongering elites, whatever side of the political aisle they are sitting on. Lindsey Graham tweeted out on Thursday a call to the Russian people to rise up and assassinate Vladimir Putin, and amazingly was not suspended, banned or had his tweet taken down by the Twitter oligarchs. Hmm, but anyway. Today Putin told the West that sanctions are tantamount to war, implying that he has no problem with the West coming after him, and that if so, Russia stands ready to take it up a notch or two. See where this is going?
"The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords." Psalms 55:21 (KJB)
On the Friday podcast, we laid out the case that things are not as they seem in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, far too many flags, reds ones and false ones, to not be hyper-suspicious of what we are watching unfold. Could it be possible that all this is being done to lure America and the West into something they will instantly regret being pulled in to? I don't know, but it makes more sense than anything else that's been going on. Maybe this is why America does not appear in Bible prophecy.
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Putin says Western sanctions are akin to declaration of war
FROM REUTERS: President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Western sanctions on Russia were akin to a declaration of war and warned that any attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine would lead to catastrophic consequences for the world.
Putin reiterated that his aims were to defend Russian- speaking communities through the "demilitarisation and de-Nazification" of the country so that Russia's former Soviet neighbour became neutral and no longer threatened Russia. Ukraine and Western countries have dismissed this as a baseless pretext for the invasion he launched on Feb. 24 and have imposed a sweeping range of sanctions aimed at isolating Moscow.
"These sanctions that are being imposed are akin to a declaration of war but thank God it has not come to that," Putin said, speaking to a group of flight attendants at an Aeroflot training centre near Moscow.
He said any attempt by another power to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine would be considered by Russia to be a step into the military conflict. Such a step he said would have catastrophic consequences for Europe and the world.
The NATO military alliance has rejected Kyiv's request for a no-fly zone, on the grounds it would escalate the war beyond Ukraine into a far wider conflict, potentially pitting the United States against Russia.
Going According To Plan
Asked about reports that Russian conscripts had been used in Ukraine, Putin said none had been involved and said the military operation was going to plan.
"There is not one conscript and we don't plan for there to be," Putin said. "Our army will fulfil all the tasks. I don't doubt that at all. Everything is going to plan."
That description was at odds with assessments from U.S. and British officials. British military intelligence said on Thursday that Russia's advance on the Ukrainian capital had made little progress and encountered staunch resistance.
read more Putin dismissed concerns that some sort of martial law or emergency situation could be declared in Russia. He said such a measure was imposed only when there was significant internal or external threat.
"We don't plan to introduce any kind of special regime on Russian territory - there is currently no need," Putin said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the West was behaving like a bandit by cutting economic relations over the conflict in Ukraine but that Russia was far too big to be isolated as the world was much larger than just the United States and Europe. READ MORE
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