LondonPresident Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the world is facing the most dangerous decade since World War Two, accusing the West of declining to engage in nuclear blackmail against Russia. Putin said he had no regrets about sending troops to Ukraine, and accused the West of inciting war and playing a “dangerous, bloody and dirty” geopolitical game that was creating chaos around the world.
Russia’s paramount leader Putin told the Valdai Discussion Club, a gathering of Russian experts, “the historic period of the West’s undivided dominance over world affairs is coming to an end.”
“We stand at a historical threshold: ahead is perhaps the most dangerous, unpredictable and, at the same time, crucial decade since the end of World War II.”
West is fueling nuclear tension
Although he kept to the West, Putin appeared remarkably relaxed as he was questioned about the prospects for nuclear war and how he felt about Russian soldiers killed in the Ukraine war, which he called “partly “Looked like a civil war.
Putin blamed the West for fueling nuclear tensions, citing remarks by former British Prime Minister Liz Truss about his readiness to use London’s nuclear deterrent if circumstances demanded it.
Ukraine may blow up ‘dirty bombs’ to trap Russia
Putin also reiterated that Ukraine could detonate a “dirty bomb” containing radioactive material meant to frame Moscow and dismissed as false Kyiv’s suggestion that the allegation could mean that Russia Planning to detonate such a device.
“We don’t need to do that. There would be no point in doing that,” Putin said. He said the Kremlin had responded to nuclear blackmail by the West.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, beginning the deepest confrontation with the West in the depths of the Cold War since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Soviet Union and the United States came closest to nuclear war.
Russia, one of the world’s biggest suppliers of natural resources, has killed tens of thousands while the West has imposed the most severe sanctions in history.
Asked about a possible nuclear escalation, Putin said the threat of nuclear weapons would remain as long as nuclear weapons exist.
But Putin said Russia’s military doctrine was defensive and, when asked about the Cuban missile crisis, Putin quipped that he had no desire to be in place of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who along with John F. brought to the world. On the verge of nuclear war before the situation calmed down.
“Absolutely not. No, I can’t imagine myself in the role of Khrushchev,” said Putin.
West openly racist, degrades other people of the world
Citing a 1978 Harvard lecture by Russian dissident and novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Putin said that the West is openly racist and degrades other people of the world.
“The power around the world is what the so-called West has put to its game – but the game is dangerous, bloody and I would say dirty,” Putin “the sower of the wind, as they say, will reap the storm.”
“I have always believed in and believed in common sense, so I believe that sooner or later the multipolar world order and the new centers of the West will have to start a similar conversation about the future we share – and sooner or later.” It would be better,” Putin said.
Putin battles as the West and Russia battle for the fate of the second largest East Slavic country in Ukraine. This, he said, was partly a “civil war” because the Russians and Ukrainians were one person. Kyiv categorically rejects both of those views.
Putin said he constantly thinks about the Russian losses in Ukraine. But only Russia can guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity, he said.
Ultimately, Putin said, the West will have to talk to Russia and other major powers about the future of the world.