Always say always

“Yes, I’m not hiding it, of course, this is a fact, we have never hidden it, our Armed Forces, frankly speaking, blocked the Armed Forces of Ukraine stationed in Crimea, but not in order to force someone to vote, this is impossible to do , but in order to prevent bloodshed, to give people the opportunity to express their own attitude to how they want to determine their future and the future of their children,” Putin said in an interview with ARD.

Stop, stop - what about the military trade union, what about the self-defense forces, what about “polite people”? If we “never hid,” then at what point did we tell all these stories based on which T-shirts are now made, pardon the rhyme?

Apparently, our president is speaking to a sclerotic audience that doesn’t even remember what happened yesterday, let alone in March. Well, “always” is “always”.

But now I look forward to Putin saying that we have “always supplied weapons to the Donbass militias.” In the meantime, in response to this question from German journalists, he reports the following: “Where do they get both armored vehicles and artillery systems? In the modern world, people who fight and who consider this fight to be fair for themselves from their point of view will always find weapons.”