Putin accuses Western elites of playing 'dangerous, bloody and dirty game' - CNN

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Russian President Vladimir Putin took immoderate acquainted swipes astatine the US and its allies during a code connected Thursday, accusing “Western elites” of playing a “dangerous, bloody and soiled game” and seeking to blasted them for overmuch of the world’s trouble, including his ain penetration of Ukraine.

Speaking astatine the Valdai Club treatment forum successful Moscow, helium denied that Russia had considered utilizing atomic weapons against Ukraine, saying Moscow had ne'er “intentionally said anything” astir it, but added that arsenic agelong arsenic atomic weapons exist, determination is ever the information of their use.

“We ne'er intentionally said thing astir the anticipation of utilizing atomic weapons by Russia. We lone responded with hints to (nuclear threats from) from Western leaders,” Putin said, accusing Western governments, including erstwhile British Prime Minister Liz Truss, for engaging successful “nuclear blackmail” against Russia.

Putin besides accused the West of “forcing the thesis that Russia volition usage atomic weapons” to power neutral countries against Moscow. He stressed that Russia’s subject doctrine lone allows the usage of atomic weapons for “defense” purpose.

His comments travel aft Russian officials claimed, without evidence, that Ukraine is considering the usage of a “dirty bomb,” which US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has described arsenic “another fabrication and thing that is besides the tallness of irresponsibility coming from a atomic power.”

Blinken reiterated that the US is tracking the Kremlin’s atomic saber-rattling “very carefully,” but hasn’t “seen immoderate crushed to alteration our atomic posture.”

In Moscow, the Russian President besides blamed Western governments, galore of which person offered enactment to Kyiv successful the look of Moscow’s amerciable invasion, of seeking planetary domination and attempting to power the world’s earthy resources.

“Power implicit the satellite is what the alleged West is banking connected successful its ain game. But this is simply a unsafe game. It’s a bloody crippled and it’s a soiled game. It denies each the sovereignties of countries, and their uniqueness, it doesn’t instrumentality into information the interests of different countries,” Putin said.

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Putin went connected to impeach the West of “staging … colour revolutions” successful different countries, “such arsenic the 1 successful Ukraine successful 2014,” and claimed Western nations were “losing the precocious hand” successful planetary affairs.

He said the satellite faced the “most unsafe decade” since the extremity of World War II, portion doubling down connected his assertion that the struggle successful Ukraine was unavoidable, blaming the West and NATO enlargement for causing the crisis.

“NATO enlargement with the Ukraine [was] wholly unacceptable to us, and everybody knew that, and they ignored. They wholly ignored involvement successful the information area, and a definite effort conscionable failed,” helium said.

“Russians and Ukrainians are 1 radical historically. It’s astir similar civilian warfare happening close now,” helium continued.

While the warfare has outgo Russia, it volition amended for the state successful the end, Putin said.

“Of course, we person immoderate problems. First of all, it deals with our losses owed to peculiar subject operation. I speech astir this each the time. But we person economical losses too, but we besides person monolithic gains. What is happening now, without immoderate doubt, and I privation to stress astatine the extremity of the time volition beryllium for the bully of Russia and it’s future. It’s connected to the strengthening of our sovereignty successful each way, and successful this lawsuit successful the economical sphere,” helium said.

The Russian president besides espoused his socially blimpish views: “The West tin bash immoderate they privation with cheery parades but they shouldn’t dictate the aforesaid rules for Russia.” Putin has repeatedly cracked down connected same-sex relationships successful an effort to uphold what his authorities considers accepted household values.

His code successful Moscow came hours aft Russian lawmakers agreed to toughen the country’s discriminatory instrumentality against alleged same-sex “propaganda,” moving to prohibition each Russians from promoting oregon “praising” homosexual relationships oregon adjacent publically suggesting that they are “normal.”

The archetypal mentation of the instrumentality adopted successful 2013 banned “propaganda of non-traditional intersexual relations” among minors.

The Russian President ended his code saying that the existent concern astir the satellite has the “prerequisites for a revolution.”