Putin says world faces most dangerous decade since WWII

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the world faces its most dangerous decade since the end of World War II.

In a speech in Moscow, Putin said there are clear and present dangers for humanity’s future and blamed the West for, he said, triggering a range of problems ranging from wars and conflicts to food shortages and humanitarian crises.

“I have always believed and believe in common sense, so I am convinced that sooner or later the new centers of the multipolar world order and the West will have to start an egalitarian conversation about the future we share, and the sooner the better,” he said. the Russian, certainly referring to Russia, China and India – these last two nations that have been protagonists of important economic and military ascents in recent decades.

The Kremlin chief also accused the West of being “blind by colonialism”, of inciting the Ukraine War and of fueling the crisis in Taiwan, a rebel island supported by the US but considered part of China by the global community. Citing a 1978 Harvard lecture by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Putin also said that the West was openly racist and despised other peoples of the world.

“Confidence in its infallibility is a very dangerous state,” he said, adding that Russia would never accept Western influences.

Leads aside, the Russian president, finally, stressed that his country does not consider itself an enemy of the West.