“The world, frightened by what Putin will say the day after US President Joe Biden’s historic visit to Kyiv, can breathe a sigh of relief. The Kremlin warlords say almost nothing new that we haven’t heard for at least a few years and especially the last year. In the first place, he did not decide to declare total war, to completely rebuild the country on a war footing and mobilize the army on a large scale,” the commentator said.

Looking at Putin’s speech from the Warsaw newsroom, it seems soe “a person who is completely detached from reality tries to scold his subordinates because they, despite their loud applause, do not really believe in the goals he announced during the attack on Ukraine. He fears that someone would prefer to live and pay taxes abroad than in homeland. He argued that everyone – even low-income retirees – should equally support Russia’s military endeavours. He threatened to deal with the traitors swiftly and decisively.”

Putin continues to sit in the bunker where he locked himself up at the start of the pandemic and perceives his delusions as reality. It was impossible to deal with such a person, because that would be a deal with a madman whose head had no real world. Would he consider it a problem to consider the piece of paper with his signature non-existent and create a new “special operation” against the West, so hostile to Russia? After all, in Putin’s mind, war is peace, writes Gazeta Wyborcza.

“We were dealing with something akin to a horror film, but so badly done and so poorly prepared that it failed to win over audiences,” rated Putin’s speech by the Defense 24 server, according to which every other speech by Putin it has a weaker and weaker effect on the audience. “Putin has become a beggar outside his country who has to struggle to get supplies from Iran or North Korea. And he has become younger, i.e. weaker, partnering with China, becausetera is still not providing military assistance to the Russian army, which is facing material shortages and logistical problems,” he said.

Vladimir Putin presented Russia as a beleaguered bastion ready for a long war, notes the French newspaper Le Monde. He called the Russian president’s words about the suspension of the New START treaty on strategic nuclear weapons the only unexpected moment of the speech.