Joachim Hagopian, Putin’s Valdai Speech Deconstructed: A Rational Mind Amidst an Insane, Irrational World

Joachim Hagopian On Thursday October 27th, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the annual Valdai Discussion Club. With an RT headline reading “’No one can sit out the coming storm’: Putin’s milestone Valdai speech,” the article lists the important takeaways followed by the key Putin quotes in italics. This presentation offers my commentary after each of the seven takeaway points. During these harrowing moments when nuclear Armageddon appears closer today than any previous time in history, including the October Missile Crisis of 1962. Then when Premier Nikita Khrushchev was confronted by American President…