Ukraine live briefing: Putin decries Western 'liberal elites,' plays down nuclear fears in global af

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Russian President Vladimir Putin decried “liberal elites” of the West in a speech Thursday that appeared aimed largely at conservatives abroad, while playing down fears that Russia would use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine.

“There are two Wests: the traditional West, with Christian values above all, with which we share common antique roots, and the cosmopolitan West, which is a tool of liberal elites,” he said in his address at the Valdai Discussion Club, a Kremlin-affiliated research institute. “No one will put up with the dictates of this West in Russia.”

Putin said “there is no point, politically or militarily” to a nuclear strike on Ukraine, but he did not back off from unsupported claims that Ukraine is preparing to use a “dirty bomb” — an explosive containing radioactive material — on its own soil. Kyiv and Western governments have dismissed the accusation and warned that Moscow could use it as a pretext for escalating the war.

Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/27/russia-ukraine-war-latest-updates/

Pooty sounds like a Republican.

[secondwind]

1. He's trying hard to break us up.

[SheltieLover]

2. "Liberal elites" translates to well educated & not impressed with his bs.

[UTUSN]

3. "plays down nuclear fears" - could be a feint. Or a cover. Or...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Poopoo is the leader of the Republican party. Traitortrump is his U.S. lieutenant.

The Fascist Oligarch eXtremist network is his U.S, propaganda arm.

[moondust]

5. He's crazy.

Like Kim Jong-un and other autocrats, after years of making up self-serving bullshit and forcing their populations to accept it as truth, it's all they know. Fortunately, most of the real world outside their pathetic propaganda bubbles knows better. The ridiculous GQP bubble isn't much better and could get much worse if it had more power of enforcement.