Russian president lashes out at West for playing ‘a bloody and dirty game’
Like every year, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke this Thursday at the so-called Valdái Forum, referring to the Russian city where this ‘International Political Discussion Club’ was born. And, as in every edition of this political event, he again did not leave a puppet with a head between the western countries, especially the United States, which he again accused of all the evil that has been and will have.
This time, because of the sanctions passed for the invasion of Ukraine, Putin has emphasized the West’s attempts to “abolish” Russian culture. “The Nazis once went so far as to burn books, and now the Western guardians of liberalism and progress have slid to forbidding the works of Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky (…) when Western countries always advocated a policy of universal culture.” But, in his words, “the abolition of Russian culture affects the development of free thought in politics, in economics and in other fields.”
“History, of course, will put everything in its place and cancel not the greatest universally recognized geniuses of world culture, but those who today for some reason have decided that they have the right to dispose of this world culture as they see fit.” Putin said so to those attending the Valdái Forum, which will be held in Moscow this year.
During his speech, the Russian president also said that Western countries “impose their consumer goals and stereotypes to increase the market area for their own production, for their own benefit.” “The West is sure of its infallibility (…) it is a step away from the desire of the infallible to destroy, as they say, those they do not like, by canceling them,” he added.
According to him, “liberal ideology in the world has changed beyond recognition. If classical liberalism understood the freedom of every person as the freedom to say what you want and do what you want, liberals in the 20th century began to declare that the so-called open society has enemies and freedom can and should be taken from such enemies. limited, when not cancelled. According to the head of the Kremlin in the West, “they have reached the absurdity that any alternative point of view is labeled as subversive propaganda and a threat to democracy.”
He also attacked those who believe that behind all the bad happening in the world are “the intrigues of the Kremlin” and questioned whether “are we really that all-powerful? Any criticism of our opponents, whoever, will be seen as machinations of the Kremlin, the hand of the Kremlin” and lamented that “not everything can be blamed on the Kremlin. “They deny the sovereignty of countries and peoples, their identity and uniqueness (…) Russia challenges the elites of the West. Russia is just defending its right to exist and develop freely. We are not going to become some kind of new hegemonic power,” he told the audience.
The top Russian leader assured that “Western rule is coming to an end, the unipolar world is a thing of the past. Before us lies the most unpredictable, dangerous and at the same time important decade since World War II. In his words, the current war in Ukraine “is only part of the tectonic movements in the whole world order.” He explained that the Ukrainian crisis “has started not now, but a long time ago” and, after calling Ukraine an “artificial state”, he reiterated that the cause and origin was the “coup d’état” after the February 2014 uprising in Kiev. when then-President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted by the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) after he fled to the Russian base in Sevastopol.
In short, Putin said yesterday that Western powers no longer have the attitude to “govern humanity alone, although they are trying desperately and the majority of the world’s population can no longer stand it”. «The American model is exhausted, it is in crisis, it has nothing left to offer the world. Not only they and Europe have the right to choose their geopolitical path, but also the countries of Asia, including Russia, and Latin America,” he stressed.
Regarding the controversy surrounding the hypothetical use of nuclear weapons, the Russian president, who was the first to raise such a possibility by annexing Crimea in March 2014 and on February 24, when he launched the invasion of the neighboring country , now said that “it makes no political or military sense” to resort to such devices. Moreover, he has turned the matter around and now, according to him, the West is threatening the atomic bomb. He recalled that, to date, “the only country to have used this type of weaponry has been the United States” in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
He warned that “as long as nuclear weapons exist, there is a danger that they will be used (…) allies and the neutral countries (…) it is a very primitive tactic». According to him, the West is playing “a dangerous, bloody and dirty game” by accusing Russia of resorting to weapons of mass destruction.
On allegations that Ukraine is preparing to detonate a “dirty bomb”, Putin yesterday urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to move a delegation to Ukraine “as soon as possible”. “The IAEA wants to come (…) we are in favor, as soon as possible and in the widest possible way, as we know that the Kiev authorities are doing everything possible to erase the trace of these preparations” for the manufacture of the “dirty bomb”.
For the Russian leader, “world events continue to develop according to a negative scenario, it has become a systemic crisis, not only at the political-military level, but also at the humanitarian and economic level.” Putin further criticized “the degradation of world institutions and the substitution of the concepts of international law.” He said he didn’t understand what the new rules are based on and insisted the West “wants to live without rules”.
Source: La Verdad
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