Putin Lashes Out At US, West For Destabilizing World

Vladimir Putin lashed out at the United States and the West for destabilizing the world order of checks and balances for its own gains. He also accused the West of inflaming the situation in Ukraine and said Russia is not interested in building an empire.

The Russian President delivered a fierce broadside aimed at the United States in a speech for the Valdai Club in Sochi, which is an informal group of scholars. He hit out at Washington for behaving without regard to the rest of the world's interests.

“The system of international relations needed some changes, but the USA, who believe they were the winners of the Cold War, have not seen the need for this.” He added that the US has been trying to create the world “for their own gains." The Russian President added that because of this, regional and global security had been weakened.
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DougC wrote:He really lives in his own wee world.

Ihavenofingerprints wrote:Did you seriously sit down and watch that man talk for 40 minutes? I noticed people in the crowd falling asleep after a few sentences.

Ihavenofingerprints wrote:I agree that the net impact of the USA on the middle east in the past decade has been to destabilize the region. I would just point out that if Putin is going to raise this argument, now isn't the best time. Not while his mob is destabilizing an entire nation and not after that plane was shot down. (oh yea, that was a CIA gubment plot, yehaw, bring back the gold standard)

Mike_L wrote:
The weight of evidence suggests that pro-Russian separatists are responsible for the outrageous downing of the Malaysian flight. And naturally the individuals involved should be held accountable. But to shift the blame onto Putin/Russia is to ignore a long sequence of events that led up to the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict in the first place.

Weaver wrote:Nah - he has no balls.

(If he did, he wouldn't have forced his paratroopers to turn in their ID cards before being sent over the border so they could claim they were "on leave" fighting in Ukraine).