Putin's speech on annexation paints a stark picture of a face-off with the West.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Russia!"Even by Mr. Putin's increasingly confrontational standards, it was an extraordinary speech, mixing riffs against Western attitudes on gender identity with an appeal to the world to see Russia as the leader of an uprising against American power.
36% : "The repression of freedom is taking on the outlines of a 'reverse religion,' of real Satanism," Mr. Putin said, asserting that liberal Western values on matters like gender identity amounted to a "denial of man."

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