Below is an extract from a speech recorded in the US and then sent to the BBC for broadcasting to a war-torn Europe.
The above lines were quoted on Twitter together with an excellent translation by Mart Kuldkepp associate professor of Scandinavien History and Politics at UCL.
For the benefit of Sarah Wagenknecht et al. I hereby submit my own translation.
The resistance of Ukraine, the help it receives from America and the EU are denounced by the leaders in the Kremlin as ´prolongation of war`
They demand ”peace.” They who drip with the blood of their own people and that of other peoples dare to utter this word.
What they mean is subjugation, the legalization of their crimes, the acceptance of the humanly unendurable.
But that is not possible.
With a Putin there can be no peace, because he is thoroughly incapable of peace and because this word in his mouth is nothing but a dirty, pathological lie.
Been there done that, Europe 2023
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