Putin blasts US 'hegemony,' predicts end to 'unipolar' world

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of trying to encourage extended hostilities in Ukraine as part of what he described Tuesday as Washington’s alleged efforts to maintain its global hegemony.

Addressing a security conference attended by military officials from Africa,, Asia and Latin America, Putin reaffirmed his long-held claim that he sent troops into Ukraine in response to Washington turning the country into an “anti-Russia” bulwark.

“They need conflicts to retain their hegemony,” Putin charged. “That’s why they have turned the Ukrainian people into cannon fodder. The situation in Ukraine shows that the United States is trying to drag the conflict out, and it acts in exactly the same way trying to fuel conflicts in Asia, Africa and Latin America.”

The speech represented the latest attempt by the Russian leader to rally support amid bruising Western sanctions that targeted the Russian economy and finance along with its government structures, top officials and businesses for Moscow’s action in Ukraine.



Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attend the opening of the Army 2022 International Military and Technical Forum in the Patriot Park outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Putin vowed to strengthen Russia's military cooperation with its allies. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)


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[sarcasmo]

1. Vlad on message with his pal Donnie.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Putin is smoking his Soviet nostalgia again.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Putin is looking fragile,

it's wearing on him.

Thanks for the thread Omaha Steve.

[brush]

4. Putin started the war and is accusing the US of using...

conflict. He's a little insane (bit off more than he can chew) and should stop listening to Alexandr Dugin, the Russian deconstructionist philosopher who Bannon also follows.

Dugin preaches for a Russian empire stretching from Belfast to Vladivostok, and area encompassing some 11 time zones from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

[Ray Bruns]

5. The only one extending the war is Vladimir Putin

[yaesu]

6. Pootie didn't mention this in his speech

a record number of cars have crossed the Crimea bridge that links Russian-occupied Crimea to Russia – which suggests that a number of Russians who settled into the region after the annexation in 2014 are now fleeing. Per the Guardian live feed

The ruskys are worried after several big russian targets were hit in Crimea. Pootie is scared shitless, he knows he fucked up big time.

[GreenWave]

7. He "put in"very little thought into his statement

Addressing a security conference attended by military officials from Africa,, Asia and Latin America, ....

trying to fuel conflicts in Asia, Africa and Latin America.”

Talk about targeting your audience! What no Europe? Ukraine is in Europe dimwit!

[oldsoftie]

8. And yet HE started the war. But like other losers; always blame the US.

UKR was invaded in 2014 and this dipshit blames it on US

[generalbetrayus]

9. Orange Julius Caesar and Pootin:

♫ But they're cousins, identical cousins all the way. ♫

[AllyCat]

10. Extended hostilities? Maybe they shouldn't have invaded a sovereign nation

and we wouldn't have had ANY hostilities.

[PortTack]

11. Oooh..big words their pootie. We're all really afraid

[DSandra]

12. Yes, because Russian and China rule is a whole lot better...

...right.... A vacuum of power will usually get filled.

[SouthernDem4ever]

13. That russian asshole makes me sick. He is a terrorist and war criminal.

He has made himself irrelevant. He has no room to blame anyone else for his troubles but himself. Just like his good friend trump.