Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Western nations are intentionally seeding chaos and violence to achieve their geopolitical goals.
The conflict in Ukraine is an attempt by “the US and its satellites” to use the country to harm Russia, he stated, as quoted by Russia Today.
The Russian strongman offered the disparaging analysis in a video address to defense ministers from several Asian nations who had assembled for a summit in Moscow.
“For years, the West has been brazenly draining and exploiting [Ukraine’s] resources, encouraged genocide and terror in Donbass, de-facto turned this nation into a colony, and is now cynically using the Ukrainian people as cannot fodder, a battering ram against Russia, as it keeps delivering weapons and munitions to Ukraine, sending mercenaries, pushing it down the path of suicide,” Putin said.
This violence is just one example of a destructive influence that Western nations exert around the world, in an attempt to preserve dominance on the global stage, the Russian president contended.
A working security architecture that can deal with modern challenges must be “based not on some mythical unwritten rules, which nobody has seen, not on someone’s domination and monopolization, but only on international law and respect for one another’s interests,” Putin added.
Source: RT
