It's on Rumble now.
[tuck interview of putin]
TLDR IIRC (its been 2 days since i saw it)
> Russian history since formation in 800
> Ukraine and Russia are the same people. Were were one and the same for over a thousand years as per history lesson earlier until the Lennin for some reason decided to artificially create a seperate identity for that territory.
> We allowed them to leave at the end of USSR because we viewed each other as kin. And saw no reason to fight. If they want to stick to that artificially created identity then fine. It was also symbolic to break up the USSR.
> We were close allies. Until CIA backed terrorists and nazies took over the ukraine govt in 2014 in a coup. And started the process towards joining NATO
> Explicitly says the conflict is a russian civil war.
> There have been 5 waves of nato expansion towards russia. we backed off each time. but USA kept pushing and pushing
> We wanted to join NATO and were rebuffed
> We wanted to join in missile defense. make it an everyone thing as an end to ICBMs for all. were rebuffed. so instead we developed missiles to overcome the missile defense.
> 2 USA presidents were unaware of what their own govt was doing. And at first agreed with me that they need to back off. But then later came back and told me they can't do anything. meaning they were overruled by their own cabinet.
> We want to denazify ukraine. Ukraine president brought forth a literal nazi to canada parliment as a "hero who fought russians" and the candian parliament all cheered him. The nazies wanted to genocide russians, jews, etc, and need to be stamped out.
> We actually had a treaty with ukraine, signed by their top negotiator. But before it could be ratified they tossed it all away because, according to their own public statement still available online, the british prime minister convinced them not to, that they will win.
> We would be happy to negotiate, the war is ongoing because it is the other side that is adamant about never negotiating with russia.