[adriancr]

It's entertaining to think Putin would spend time to write such a long and biased article although it's obvious by its contents that that's not the case. (ex: a person that avoids technology like the plague mentioning using open-source documents)

I'm curious why the need for this sort of attribution is needed. The same sort of thing used to happen in the past in Romania with our glorious leader's wife...

As for contents, it reads like usual propaganda with a clear goal, justify Ukraine/Russia are the same people with a perhaps distorted view of history. Reading it is a little useful exercise in structure and manipulation

[cato_the_elder]

I agree that it is propaganda, but ghostwriting is kinda common for politicians. Reagan's famous "Tear done this wall" speech was written by Peter Robinson. [1] Hillary Clinton's book "It Takes a Village" was written by an uncredited ghostwriter named Barbara Feinman. [2] There are many other examples.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Robinson_(speechwriter...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Village

[Jtsummers]

Open-source documents aren’t about technology. It is a term of art in intelligence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence

[aaaaaaaaata]

If you've watched him speak for 30min regarding geopolitics, such writing doesn't seem too farfetched...

Hate him for whatever, he's not uneducated, unintelligible etc.

[adriancr]

I don't doubt that he is capable of writing this considering his background and achievements. I doubt that he wrote it considering the time investment needed and him being busy with invasion preparations...

I was curious as to reasons why do this, why such a long article, why under his name.

His target is likely the average russian, he is cultivating his image as a unifier of people?, is that also justification for war?

If he had written it, perhaps it would have shed some light in his way of thought. Without that assumption it's just another propaganda piece.

[mongol]

It certainly is propaganda. But it is not that different from any longer piece from a political leader. We should assume that given that it is signed by him, he has been influencial in what it says, even if it is mostly ghost-written, it reflects his views and opinions. Someone like Putin can dictate an article while getting a bath or travelling in his airplane. He does not need to type it into a computer.

I respect it for what it is, something with his name above it published on a Kremlin site. Propaganda is worse when it is hidden or disguised or pretends to be something it is not.

[secondcoming]

It was written on July 12, 2021.

[petre]

If it isn't written by Putin himself then Aleksandr Dughin probably wrote it at the Kremlin leder's request. Putin is certainly capable writing such a piece. Which tells a lot about the education he was given, because he genuinely believes what he wrote.

Better let the historians and journalusts write history.