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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Western countries are seeking to expand a “NATO-style system” in the Asia-Pacific region.
Speaking at an international security conference in Moscow, Putin said the US was trying to “drag out” the conflict in Ukraine and that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan earlier this month was ” a well-designed challenge”.
“The American adventure with Taiwan is not just a trip of an irresponsible politician, but part of a deliberate, conscious strategy aimed at destabilizing and causing a chaotic situation in the region and the world,” he noted.
This is a “brazen demonstration of their lack of respect for the sovereignty of other countries and for their international commitments,” the Russian president continued.
Relations between the US and Russia, which has launched an attack on Ukraine and has repeatedly denounced US arms deliveries to Kyiv, are going through a period of great tension.
The target of severe sanctions from the West, Russia is trying to strengthen its relations with Asia and Africa, and especially China.
Moscow has already described Pelosi’s early August visit to Taiwan, which angered China, as a “provocation” and has assessed that Beijing has the right to take “necessary measures to protect its sovereignty”.
Furthermore, Putin stated that the West’s promises of security in Europe are hypocrisy and that in reality the opposite is true.
Regarding the war, the Russian president claimed that “Russia launched the special operation in Ukraine in full compliance with the UN Charter.”
A multipolar world based on international law, on fairer relations, opens up new opportunities to fight common threats, the Russian president said.
“Let me emphasize: it is a multipolar world, built on international law, on fairer relations, which opens up new opportunities to fight common threats. Among them are regional conflicts and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and cybercrime,” Putin said.
He noted that all these challenges are of a global nature and cannot be overcome without the combined efforts and capabilities of all states.
The West is trying to force independent states to submit to its will, to live by someone else’s rules, in order to maintain its sovereignty and parasitize them, the Russian president said. “The US and its vassals rudely interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states, organizing provocations, coups and civil wars. By threats, blackmail and pressure they try to force independent states to submit to their will, to live by foreign rules. And all these are done with one and only goal, to maintain their dominance, the model that allows them to parasitize the whole world,” Putin said characteristically.
The West needs conflict to maintain its hegemony, which is why it has prepared Ukraine for conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin has argued. ” The West needs conflicts to maintain its hegemony. That’s why they prepared the people of Ukraine for the north, implemented the anti-Russian plan, turned a blind eye to the spread of neo-Nazi ideology, mass murder of the people of Donbas, supplied and continue to supply weapons to the Kiev regime. Including heavy weapons”.
Continuing, Putin further stated that Russia will safeguard its national interests as well as the protection of its allies and take further steps towards a more democratic world.
Shoigu: Russia has no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday during a conference speech that Russia has no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
Shoigu also claimed that Ukrainian military operations are planned by the US and Britain and that NATO has greatly increased its troop deployment in Eastern and Central Europe.
He also noted that Sweden-Finland joining NATO will make Russia revise its defense approach.
Shoigu also argued during his speech that the AUKUS bloc of Australia, the UK and the US has the potential to develop into a “civil-military alliance”.
Regarding the New START Treaty, Shoigu said that the talks on its extension are a “two-way street” and that the situation is not “easy”.
Source: Capital
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