“We see no need for that,” Putin said. “There is no point in that, neither political, nor military”, he said speaking at a news conference of international foreign policy experts,
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, October 27, said his country would not use nuclear weapons in Ukraine but described the conflict there as part of alleged efforts by the West to secure its global domination, which he insisted are doomed to fail, a PTI report in the Deccan Chronicle, says.
“We see no need for that,” Putin said. “There is no point in that, neither political, nor military”, he said speaking at a news conference of international foreign policy experts,
Putin said an earlier warning of his readiness to use all means available to protect Russia didn’t amount to nuclear weapons. It was merely a response to Western statements about their possible use of nuclear weapons.
He particularly mentioned Liz Truss who in August had said she would be ready to use nuclear weapons if she became Britain’s prime minister, a remark which he said worried the Kremlin.
What were we supposed to think? Putin said. “We saw that as a coordinated position, an attempt to blackmail us.”
In a long speech full of diatribes against the United States and its allies, Putin accused them of trying to dictate their terms to other nations in a dangerous, bloody and dirty domination game.
Putin, who sent his troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, views Western support for Ukraine as part of broad efforts by Washington and its allies to enforce its will upon others through a rules-based world order.
He argued that the world had reached a turning point, where the West is no longer able to dictate its will to humankind .
The Russian leader claimed that the Western policies will foment more chaos, adding that he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.
The Russian leader said Russia isn’t the enemy of the West but will continue to oppose the purported diktat of Western neo-liberal elites, accusing them of trying to subdue Russia.
Their goal is to make Russia more vulnerable and turn it into an instrument for fulfilling their geopolitical tasks, they have failed to achieve it and they will never succeed, Putin said.
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