Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied having any intentions of using nuclear munitions in Ukraine but described the conflict there as part of alleged sweats by the West to secure its global domination, which he claimed are doomed to fail.
Speaking at a conference of transnational foreign policy experts,Mr. Putin said it’s meaningless for Russia to strike Ukraine with nuclear munitions.We see no need for that, ”Mr. Putin said. “ There’s no point in that, neither political, nor military. ”
Putin said an earlier warning of his readiness to use “ all means available to cover Russia ” did n’t amount to nuclear smallsword- rattling but was simply a response to Western statements about their possible use of nuclear munitions.
He particularly mentioned Liz Truss saying in August that she’d be ready to use nuclear munitions if she came Britain’s Prime Minister, a comment which he said bothered the KremlinWhat were we supposed to suppose? ”Mr. Putin said. “ We saw that as a coordinated position, an attempt to blackmail us. ”n a long speech full of philippics against the United States and its abettors ,Mr. Putin indicted them of trying to mandate their terms to other nations in a “ dangerous, bloody and dirty ” domination game.
Putin, who transferred his colors into Ukraine on February 24, has cast Western support for Ukraine as part of broad sweats by Washington and its abettors to apply its will upon others through a rules- grounded world order. He argued that the world has reached a turning point, when “ the West is no longer suitable to mandate its will to humankind but still tries to do it, and the maturity of nations no longer want to tolerate it. ”
The Russian leader claimed that the Western programs will stir further chaos, adding that “ he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind. ”Putin claimed that “ humankind now faces a choice accumulate a cargo of problems that will inescapably crush us all or try to find results that may not be ideal but could work and could make the world more stable and secure. ”
Without offering substantiation, the Russian leader repeated Moscow’s unproven allegation that Ukraine was conniving a false flag attack involving a radioactive dirty lemon it would try to jut on Russia.
Ukraine has explosively rejected the claim, and its Western abettors have dismissed it as “ transparently false. ” Ukraine argued Russia might be making the unsupported allegation to serve as a cover for its own possible plot to crump a dirty lemon.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told journalists on Thursday that theU.S. has still not seen anything to indicate thatMr. Putin has decided to use a dirty lemon.Putin said he tête-à-tête ordered Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to call his foreign counterparts to tell them about the purported plot. He maintained that Russia knows the Ukrainian installations working on the design.
He mocked the allegations by Ukraine and the West that Russia was firing on the home of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine as “ ravings. ” Russian colors have enthralled the factory, Europe’s largest, since the early days of the conflict.
Hails Russian relations with ChinaPutin also expressed bafflement about Washington’s policy on China, noting that pressures sparked by a recent visit to Taiwan byU.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi come amid theU.S.- Russian showdown over Ukraine.Why spoil relations with China at the same time ”Mr. Putin said. “ It seems to defy sense and common sense. It looks like ravings. ”
He hailed Russia’s relations with China, but said he had n’t advised Chinese President Xi Jinping about his intention to shoot colors into Ukraine when he visited Beijing days before that to attend the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Asked about Washington’s trouble to rethink its relationship with Saudi Arabia over the Riyadh- led OPEC alliance’s move to cut oil painting product,Mr. Putin argued that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was acting in his nation’s interests and the need to stabilise global energy requests.
They need to admire the crown Napoleon and Saudi Arabia, and they will respond in kind, ”Mr. Putin said. “ And they will also respond in kind if they’re spoken to in a churlish manner. The Russian leader said Russia is n’t the adversary of the West but will continue to oppose the purported directive of Westernneo-liberal elites, criminating them of trying to subdue Russia.heir thing is to make Russia more vulnerable and turn it into an instrument for fulfilling their geopolitical tasks, they’ve failed to achieve it and they will noway succeed, ”Mr. Putin said.
Denigrates Ukraine as ‘ artificial state ’Putin reaffirmed his long- held claim that Russians and Ukrainians are part of a single people and again denigrated Ukraine as an “ artificial state ” that entered major Russian lands from Communist autocrats during the Soviet times.In that environment, he conceded that the fighting in Ukraine effectively amounts to a civil war, although the Kremlin calls its conduct in Ukraine a “ special military operation. ”
Putin said he thinks “ all the time ” about the casualties that Russia has suffered in Ukraine, but claimed that NATO’s turndown to rule out Ukraine’s prospective class and Kyiv’s turndown to cleave to a peace deal for its separatist conflict in the country’s east has left Moscow no other choice.He denied undervaluing Ukraine’s capability to fight back and claimed that his “ special military operation ” has progressed as planned.
Putin also conceded the challenges posed by Western warrants, but argued that Russia has proven flexible to foreign pressure and has come more united.John Kirby, aU.S. National Security Council spokesperson, responded toMr. Putin’s speech as it was underway.We do n’t believe thatMr. Putin’s strategic pretensions have changed then. He does n’t want Ukraine to live as a autonomous, independent nation state, ”Mr. Kirby said.
