MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday sought to cast the conflict in Ukraine as part of what he described as efforts by the West to secure its global domination that are doomed to fail.
In a long speech at a conference of international policy experts, Putin accused the U.S. and its allies of trying to dictate their terms to other nations in a “dangerous, bloody and dirty” domination game.
Putin, who sent his troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, has cast Western support for Ukraine as part of broad efforts by Washington and its allies to enforce its will upon others through what they call a rules-based world order. The Russian leader claimed that the Western policies will foment more chaos, adding that “he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.”
Putin claimed that “humankind now faces a choice: accumulate a load of problems that will inevitably crush us all or try to find solutions that may not be ideal but working and could make the world more stable and secure.”
He argued that the world has reached a turning point, when “the West is no longer able to dictate its will to the humankind but still tries to do it, and the majority of nations no longer want to tolerate it.”
The Russian leader said Russia isn’t the enemy of the West but will continue to oppose the purported diktat of Western neo-liberal elites, accusing them of trying to subdue Russia.
“Their goal is to make Russia more vulnerable and turn it into an instrument for fulfilling their geopolitical tasks, they have failed to achieve it and they will never succeed,” Putin said.
The Russian president reaffirmed his long-held claim that Russians and Ukrainians are part of a single people and again denigrated Ukraine as an “artificial state,” which received historic Russian lands from Communist rulers during the Soviet times.
Speaking about the Ukrainian conflict, Putin said he thinks “all the time” about the casualties Russia has suffered in the conflict, but insisted that NATO’s refusal to rule out prospective Ukraine’s membership and Kyiv’s refusal to adhere to a peace deal for its separatist conflict in the country’s east has left Moscow no other choice.
He denied underestimating Ukraine’s ability to fight back and insisted that his “special military operation” has proceeded as planned.
Putin also acknowleged the challenges posed by Western sanctions, but argued that Russia has proven resilient to foreign pressure and become more united.
https://apnews.com/article/putin-europe-government-and-politics-c541449bf88999c117b033d2de08d26d
Go lick a toad putler, you dirtbag.
“Putin, who sent his troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, has cast Western support for Ukraine as part of broad efforts by Washington and its allies to enforce its will upon others through what they call a rules-based world order. ”
Here we go again, putin complaining about others doing exactly what russia want to do. Countries look West because of the enormous benefits, no need to invade countries, or commit mass atrocities, but this terrorist doesn’t understand that.
“He denied underestimating Ukraine’s ability to fight back and insisted that his “special military operation” has proceeded as planned.”
Of course it has Putler. 65,000 dead terrorists, enough scrap metal to keep Ukraine supplied in free metal for a 100 years, and orcs on the retreat everywhere.
The difference being, the West does not want to enslave the world but putin does.
Democracies must seek global domination to break evil shitholes. It’s called EVOLUTION.
The West don’t need to seek it, they have had it since the end of WW2.
I can’t help it, but every time I see tiny, or hear or read about what tiny says, I must think about Mini-Me. Their appearance and demeanor are astonishingly alike.