SOCHI: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday condemned the United States for trying to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia in Ukraine and said the struggle to create a new world order was underway as the post-Cold War era dominated by the West came to an end.
“We have come to a dangerous line,” Putin told the Valdai Discussion Club in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, a day after learning that Donald Trump had won the US presidential election.
“The West’s demand for a strategic defeat of Russia, the country with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, shows the extreme adventurism of Western politicians,” Putin said.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the West had arrogantly tried to cast Russia as a defeated power, he said, describing the US-led NATO military alliance as an anarchy.
He said that Russia did not consider Western civilization as an enemy despite the efforts of the United States and its allies to isolate Moscow.
He said that the world is changing, and many powerful countries do not want to isolate Russia.
“The previous structure of the world is irrevocably disappearing, we can say that it has already ended, and there is a serious, irreconcilable struggle for a new one,” Putin said. said
“The world needs Russia, and no amount of decisions by supposed superiors in Washington or Brussels can change that.”
