Putin apologist Richard Blakley continued to defend his favorite warmongering dictator in his June 27 WorldNetDaily column:
Not invited to the June 15-16 Switzerland “Ukrainian peace summit,” Russia and Belarus were also refused required visas to participate in the upcoming OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Romania, June 29-July 3. TASS, the Russian News Agency, reported both Russia and Belarus consider these refusals as being “connected with the fear of having an open dialogue.” These refusals essentially put Russia under a gag order, while other nations spew their narratives.
Where else have we observed this strategy? Oh yes, the fraudulent Donald Trump trials. Joe Biden’s Justice Department put Trump under a gag order while MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, etc. were all allowed to spew their venomous narratives unopposed, all reading from the same script, with Trump not being allowed to even address what’s being said. Mainstream media’s narrative about “34 felony counts” conveniently forgot to explain this was a single supposed “felony” count, repeated 34 times, consisting of payments to a lawyer, labeled “legal expenses,” that somehow made this a felony. Obviously, an unethical gag order was needed somewhere to accomplish this.
Likewise, Russia is being gagged from world summits. Perhaps Biden wouldn’t want discussions concerning the CIA and Biden’s involvement in the 2014 flipping of Ukraine’s government, or the CIA’s continued involvement in Ukraine, which actually started in the 1940s, or the U.S./Ukrainian biolabs, or Ukraine’s prospective NATO membership, etc.
Biden’s influence over his corrupt DOJ, gagging Trump, is also the same influence that he projects over his foreign policy, gagging Russia. Likewise, as Biden was involved in flipping Ukraine’s government, also Biden is involved in trying to flip U.S. states from Republican to Democrat.
How do you think Putin views the gagging of Russia? Well, he told us. The Hill reported Putin stated, “This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences. … [speaking of Western countries] It is hard to say – do they want a global conflict?”
Blakley didn’t explain why a warmongering country should have been invited to a peace summit. Blakley’s reference to “U.S./Ukrainian biolabs” linked by to a January 2023 column he wrote, in which he simply repeated Russian propaganda. He then spouted more claims from an actual Russian propaganda outlet:
Putin’s recent June Far East tour included visiting North Korea and Vietnam. What do you suppose they talked about? Russia has already told us. TASS reported the Russian Security Council deputy chairman stated Russia can supply weapons to any U.S. enemy, the same way Washington does with Ukraine: “Now let the U.S. and its allies feel the direct impact of the use of Russian weapons by third parties. …If the U.S. is their enemy, then they are our friends.”
June 18-19 in Pyongyang, North Korea, according to TASS, Putin stated, “No matter how hard they tried [the West], all their attempts to contain or isolate Russia have failed.” The news agency reported
Putin expressed to Kim Jong-un, “Russia has incessantly supported and will support the DPRK (The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) [North Korea] and the heroic [North] Korean people in their struggle against the treacherous, dangerous and aggressive enemy, [implying, the U.S. and Western countries] in their fight for independence, identity and right to freely choose their development path.” TASS reported Putin “noted that Washington keeps setting obviously unacceptable requirements, while North Korea has repeatedly expressed its intention to resolve all the existing differences by peaceful means.”
Concerning North Korea, Putin stated, “… we will develop alternative trade and mutual settlements mechanisms not controlled by the West, jointly oppose illegitimate unilateral restrictions, and shape the architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia …include[-ing] various areas of the economy, energy, transport, agriculture, interregional relations, security issues, issues of cooperation in the international arena and so on.”
Concerning Putin’s trip to Vietnam, TASS reported that Hanoi is still dependent on Beijing and Washington, so “the U.S. is trying to convince Vietnam to reject Russian arms.” In the 1970-1980s, “the Soviet Union was Vietnam’s main trade partner,” but while the U.S. is currently dominant in trade, trade with Russia grew 8% in a year, according to TASS. Russia promises to help Vietnam “in developing pharmaceuticals, green energy, agriculture, infrastructure, and the smart city concept” following Hanoi’s policy for attracting foreign investments.
In Blakley’s twisted view, it’s the U.S., not Russia, who’s escalating tensions:
With the New York Time reporting of Biden’s yelling about “Armageddon” and Biden’s continual escalation of the war in Ukraine, it looks like crazy people are already using weapons. According to the BBC, Biden even “bypass[-ed] U.S. law prohibiting the production, use or transfer of cluster munitions with a failure rate of more than 1%,” by sending these munitions to Ukraine. U.S. cluster bombs have a failure rate of 2.5%. Russia retaliated, sending their cluster bombs, which have a failure rate of 20-30%. Russian and Ukrainian forces will be spreading ordnance waiting to detonate all over the country. With 123 countries signing the Convention on Cluster Bombs, which prohibits their production and use, signatures of the U.S., Ukraine and Russia are missing.
According to The Telegraph, Biden’s administration stated it plans to deploy more strategic nuclear weapons in response to “the growing threat from Russia and China.” Where does this look like Biden is leading the world?
Blakley didn’t explain why he doesn’t consider Russia to be a threat to anyone, even Ukraine.
In his July 12 column, Blakley complained that the U.S. and NATO are bolstering defensive efforts in Europe:
According to the BBC, Sir Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College London speculated the storage facilities might have a “mundane explanation” being just extra capacity in case weapons need moving from other storage sites in Europe. In sharp contrast, William Alberque, a former senior NATO official now with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, proposed it was a response to an “increasingly dangerous threat environment across Europe because of Russia’s actions,” including Russia’s stationing of nuclear forces in Belarus.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg “made it clear” that expanding the number of deployed nuclear warheads in response to both Russia and China was the central subject of discussion at June’s NATO defense minister’s summit. At the June 17 White House briefing concerning Stoltenberg’s statement, Biden National Security Adviser John Kirby was asked, “How can [Stoltenberg’s statement] not be perceived as a provocation or an escalation?” He replied by saying, “NATO is a defensive alliance.”
[…]Early in May, Russia was rehearsing nuclear attack on Ukraine, according to The Telegraph, which reported, “The Kremlin said the exercises were in response to ‘escalatory’ comments by British and French officials, who have endorsed the use of Western weapons to hit targets in mainland Russia.”
Russia withdrew from the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 2023. The START Treaty, which limits countries’ deployment of strategic nuclear weapons, expires in 2026. At the present time Russia refuses to discuss a successor treaty. In fact, The Telegraph reported Putin as saying, “Moscow could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the U.S., if the White House allows Ukraine to launch long-range American-made weapons into Russia.”
Meanwhile, according to TASS, the Russian News Agency, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said, “The cost of the ongoing war for the region and the entire world is very high. What is even more alarming is that this risk may grow and expand. It may expand geographically and the potential use of nuclear weapons may be put on the agenda.” He notes that his country has been making efforts to settle this conflict “diplomatically” from the very beginning.
[…]After visiting China, Putin went on a Far East tour that included North Korea and Vietnam. Putin thus reinforced Russia’s allies from the days of the Cold War, noted the Kyiv Post.
With Biden deploying more nuclear weapons, and with Biden ruling out “the prospect of … [Ukraine] joining the NATO alliance,” as reported in the Telegraph, it also prompted the paper to ask the question, “Does Joe Biden even know what he is doing?”
Again, Blakley was silent on why he doesn’t consider Russia to be a threat given that it launched a full-scale military invasion on a neighbor.
Blakley began his July 26 column by stating, “President Putin requested peace in Ukraine at least four times” — ignoring the obvious point that if Putin really wanted peace, he could simply withdraw his troop from Ukraine and stop killing Ukrainians. He then went on to whine about problems facing another authoritarian European leader:
Budapest Times reports Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s continuing his “heroic mission” keeping diplomatic channels open between Ukraine and Russia. “Hungary’s government [stated it] will continue its peace mission ‘despite the attacks of pro-war European politicians’.” Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto stated, “Those politicians ‘have deepened the crisis with weapon deliveries, with [voicing] phantasies on sending land troops and about nuclear weapons. … These attacks do not intimidate or discourage us; the peace mission will continue and even strengthen.”
Unfortunately, the Budapest Times also reported the Respect and Freedom (Tisza) Party is gaining power and promises “toppling the regime” in Hungary. Now 63 European Parliament members are calling to strip Hungary of EU Council voting rights, due to “Orban’s peace initiatives.” Also, Hungry is being penalized 200 million euros and daily payment of one million euros for not following migrant EU admission rules. This sounds like CIA régime change 101.
Blakey didn’t mention that Orban is a right-wing authoritarian who has common cause with Putin. Blakley continued to present the U.S. and NATO as aggressors (desite NATO being a defensive alliance) and Russia as an innocent victim:
What would make Russia and NATO members concerned about NATO’s direction in Ukraine? It’s more than just documents signed at NATO’s summit. Biden/Harris’ warmongering administration plans arming F-35s with nuclear weapons at bases in Europe. These bases were void of nuclear weapons since 2008.
Deployment of long-range weapons is also causing concern. Reuters reports in 2026 the U.S. will deploy to Germany, Tomahawk and Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) made by a Raytheon division, including developmental hypersonic missiles. TASS reports Washington’s Russian Ambassador considers this a “serious mistake” and “highly destabilizing … directly threaten[ing] international security.”
Another worry for Russia and NATO members is NATO countries France, Germany, Italy and Poland have agreed to joint development of long-range cruise missiles, removing Germany from the INF Treaty.
Continuing escalation, Kyiv Post reports Ukraine is receiving 80 American-made F-16 Fighters from Belgium, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands this summer, with Denmark and the Netherlands allowing use of F-16s “for defensive purposes inside Russia.”
AP reports, Zelenskyy is pressuring the U.S. to lift limits on striking “military targets inside Russia.” “Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said …the United States could face ‘fatal consequences’ for allowing Ukraine to use American weapons to strike targets on Russian soil.”
Putin has stated, “It is hard to say – do they want a global conflict?”
Russia has stated “use of long-range weapons to strike Russia would” mean NATO’s military is involved.
Blakey again took Putin’s side in invading Ukraine:
While war in Ukraine started over the possibility of Ukrainian NATO membership, democrat Biden has stated Ukraine cannot join NATO until the war ends.
So, if Putin ends the war, Ukraine becomes a NATO member, which was the initial reason for the war.
In fact, The Epoch Times reports Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev stated, “From the very beginning we have made it clear to NATO that Ukraine’s accession is not just a direct threat to Russia’s national interests. It is, in fact, a declaration of war, albeit with a delay.”
Again, NATO is a defensive alliance. The only threat Russia could plausibly feel from Ukraine joining NATO is if Russia had a plan to annex Ukraine all along.
Blakley concluded by writing, “Pray for peace.” At no point did he mention the one thing that would achieve peace — Russia unilaterally withdrawing from Ukraine.