Former Italian PM Defends Putin's Actions In Ukraine

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s three-time former prime minister, has triggered a row after defending the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over the war in Ukraine.

The 85-year-old billionaire, whose party is forecast to return to government after the general election on Sunday, told Italian TV that Putin – an old friend of his – was pushed to invade Ukraine by the Russian people and by ministers who wanted Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s administration replaced with “decent people”.

Berlusconi, who has condemned the war, told the chatshow Porta a Porta that separatists had gone to Moscow and told the media that Ukraine’s attacks had caused 16,000 deaths and that Putin was doing nothing to defend them. Berlusconi said: Putin was pushed by the Russian population, by his party and by his ministers to invent this special operation. The troops were supposed to enter, reach Kyiv within a week, replace Zelenskiy’s government with decent people and then leave. Instead they found resistance, which was then fed by arms of all kinds from the west.

Berlusconi claims Russians ‘pushed’ Putin into Ukraine war

Italian former PM’s party is part of coalition expected to win Sunday’s general election

www.theguardian.com

 

[Annie]

From his entire speech, the only words western media seemed to hear is ‘nuclear weapons’, listen to the speech for yourself and get some context

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Quote: “The troops were supposed to enter, reach Kyiv within a week, replace Zelenskiy’s government with decent people and then leave.




And I’m the next king of England.

 

[Webster]

From his entire speech, the only words western media seemed to hear is ‘nuclear weapons’, listen to the speech for yourself and get some context

Quote: “The troops were supposed to enter, reach Kyiv within a week, replace Zelenskiy’s government with decent people and then leave.




And I’m the next king of England.

Like Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi is very much enamored of Putin and wishes he could rule like him, words of condemnation aside.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Like Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi is very much enamored of Putin and wishes he could rule like him, words of condemnation aside.

Donald Trump wasn’t enamored by any of the communist countries. But unlike the weakest world leaders the world has ever seen he understood you got to throw spice in with those yucky veggies when dealing with evil.

 

[Webster]

Donald Trump wasn’t enamored by any of the communist countries.