The president of Russia uses a Putin-speak in his speeches that we must parse word for word, in our own best interests. Only after translating them into normal speech do we learn what he has said and why. His September 28 speech to the United Nations General Assembly made seven overlapping and interdependent points that are worth translating. Unlike Barack Obama’s passionate address, Putin delivered his remarks in the measured and moderate tones of a world statesman. But they were still words of warning: Join us in a broad coalition and leave nondemocratic regimes alone, or catastrophe will strike.
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Source: European Voice
