Source: The Realist Review
by Martin Sieff
“President Vladimir Putin of Russia was calm, confident, composed, and above all else, consistent when he spelled out Russia’s unchanging terms to end the Ukraine war when he spoke to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin on September 1st. Once again he made clear that Moscow rejected every ‘statesmanlike compromise’ that President Donald Trump and his spin doctors came up with in Washington, as well as those dreamt up by the leaders of NATO and the European Union who are eager to appease their real Master, Volodymyr Zelensky. … Most Western major media outlets, lying desperately as usual, described Putin’s speech and appearance at the SCO summit as an attempt to break the diplomatic isolation they imagine he has been in since the war started in February 2022. But, of course, Putin and Russia have never been isolated …” (09/04/25)