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Putin declares end of 'unipolar world order', says anti-Russia sanctions boomeranged
The emergence of new power centers that have the right to protect their systems, economic models, and sovereignty has ended "the era of the unipolar world", Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday, in what the Kremlin described as an “extremely important” speech.
Addressing the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin said the Western sanctions on Russia over its military operation in Ukraine have boomeranged, exacerbating social and economic crises across the West, especially in Europe.
He went on to stress that the so-called "golden billion" countries still pretend they are superior and consider other countries to be their colonies, blaming them for deliberately undermining the foundations of international order.
In the combative speech, Putin also pointed out that the US can steal any person, group, or state's money over something it does not approve of.
He was particularly scathing in his criticism of the European countries, terming their decision to impose sanctions on Russia as "crazy" and "not well thought out".
“The European Union has completely lost its political sovereignty, and its bureaucratic elites are dancing to someone else’s tune, accepting whatever they are told from above, causing harm to their own population and their own economy,” the Russian president told the annual business forum.
European Union (EU) citizens will pay the price for “decisions divorced from reality and taken contrary to common sense,” he added, saying direct losses from sanctions could exceed $400 billion in a year.
He said the West spent years turning the former Soviet republic into an “anti-Russia” state and supplying it with weapons and military advisers while stressing that they “did not give a damn” about Ukraine’s economy or the lives of its people, but “spared no expense to create a NATO foothold in the east, directed against Russia, to cultivate aggression, hatred, and Russophobia."
“All the objectives of the special military operation will be unconditionally achieved,” Putin declared.
He said Russia will “never follow the path of self-isolation” but will expand interactions with those who are willing to trade with it, adding that there are “many such countries.”
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