War in Ukraine – Putin: The West is failing, the future is in Asia, it is impossible to isolate Moscow

The western sanctions is short-sighted and are a danger to the whole world, which is increasingly turning towards Asia, the Russian president said today, Vladimir Putinas part of his speech at the Eastern Economic Forum held in Vladivostok, a city in the Russian Far East.

As Putin said, the West has undermined the world economy with an “aggressive” attempt to impose its dominance around the world, but the Asia-Pacific region is on the rise.

“Irreversible, even tectonic changes have been accomplished in international relations. The role of dynamic, promising countries and regions of the world – especially the Asia-Pacific region, has grown significantly.”

Putin said, as reported by APE-MPE, that sanctions have replaced the coronavirus pandemic as the main threat to the global economy. “I’m referring to sanctions fever of the West with its shameful, aggressive attempt to impose models of behavior on other countries, to deprive them of their national sovereignty and to belittle their wishes,” he said.

“This is not unprecedented. This is the policy the West has collectively followed for decades. Western countries are struggling to maintain a bygone world order that favors only themselves, to force everyone to live according to the wretched rules that they themselves invented and systematically violate, rules that are constantly changing in their favor depending on the current circumstances,” Putin said.

The Russian economy, however, is coping with the economic and technological aggression of the Westas Putin described it, acknowledging that there are some difficulties in certain industries and regions.

Among the affected industries are, according to him, those dependent on supplies from Europe.

Is “impossible”, as Putin said, to isolate Russia and Moscow will defy Western efforts to dislodge it from the world stage.

Russia sees more opportunities to enter Middle Eastern and Iranian markets after tough Western sanctions were imposed in response to Russian invasion of Ukrainethe Russian president said and pointed out that Moscow has done everything to ensure that Kyiv will be able to export grain.

Problems in the global food market are likely to increase and there is a risk of a humanitarian disaster, he added.

Russia has not lost anything because of the military operation, as it calls it, that it is conducting in Ukraine, the Russian president commented.

All of Moscow’s actions are designed to strengthen Russian national sovereignty and are aimed at “helping the citizens” living in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.