DON’T NEED NUCLEAR STRIKE ON UKRAINE,” SAYS PUTIN, TEARING INTO US

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President Vladimir Putin lashed out at the US and Europe over his war in Ukraine, heaped praise on Saudi Arabia and reiterated support for China’s claim to Taiwan as he sought to cast Russia as a champion of conservative values against Western leftism.

He indicted the US and its abettors of seeking global domination by pouring munitions into Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russia’s irruption, in an periodic meeting Thursday with the Kremlin’s Valdai discussion club of foreign- policy experts outside Moscow. He denied intending to use nuclear munitions in Ukraine.

We do not need a nuclear strike on Ukraine,” Vladimir Putin said, claiming Russia had only dropped” hints” in response to US and European discussion of a possible infinitesimal conflict.” There’s no point, either military or political.”

In fact, Kremlin officers including former President Dmitry Medvedev have advised in recent weeks about the possible use of politic nuclear munitions in Ukraine as Moscow’s faltering war enters its ninth month with its forces in retreat from home that President Putin adjoined as” ever” part of Russia last month.

US and European defense officers said this week that a claim by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu that Ukraine may use a so- called” dirty lemon” may be an suggestion the Kremlin is planning such an operation. President Joe Biden advised Tuesday that Russia would be making an” incredibly serious mistake” if it used a nuclear armament in Ukraine.

President Putin said he still hasn’t decided whether to go to coming month’s Group of 20 peak in Indonesia, as the US and its abettors have pushed for him to be barred over the irruption.” Russia surely will be represented at a high position,” he told a doubter from Indonesia.” I may still go.”

In a rambling speech and discussion than ran for further than3.5 hours, Vladimir Putin said Russia stands for” multipolarity” and” traditional values” that he said were participated by utmost of the world in opposition to liberal stations on questions similar as same- coitus connections. He claimed American sympathizers of similar conservative values also backed Russia. He indicted US and European leaders of high- handedness and claimed the period of American domination is coming to an end, indeed as he claimed Russia was not an adversary of the West.

Appearing relaxed and confident, the Russian leader praised Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as” a youthful man, resolute, with character,” adding that he merited” respect” for pursuing a balanced position on the oil painting request in line with his country’s public interests indeed in the face of US review. Russia would support Saudi class of the BRICS group alongside Brazil, India, China and South Africa, if Riyadh wanted to join, he said.

Vladimir Putin said he did not advise Chinese President Xi Jinping in advance about his intention to foray Ukraine when they met in Beijing weeks before the war started in February. He denounced recent visits by US officers to Taiwan as” provocations” and said Russia continued to completely support Beijing’s claim to the democratically governed islet amid rising pressures with Washington on the issue.

Invasion pretensions

Indeed as Russian colors have suffered a series of recent defeats against Ukrainian forces, President Putin said his plan for what he calls his” special military operation” remained to insure the security of Kremlin- backed secessionists in the eastern Donbas region. He made no citation of the broad pretensions of”de-Nazification” and”de-militarization” that he would cited at the launch of the irruption, when Russia failed in a lightning attempt to seize Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

President Putin, whose public statements of his pretensions for the war have shifted in the months since he dispatched colors, did not explain the apparent elision. He described the neighboring regions of Ukraine that Russia immorally adjoined last month as part of a major’ Novorossiya’ home.

His commentary came in response to a question from the host of the Valdai event, foreign policy critic Fyodor Lukyanov, who noted that” society does not really understand what the plan is.”As President Vladimir Putin spoke, the independent Levada Center released a bean showing that for the first time, a maturity of Russians now support addresses to end the war, rather than continuing the irruption.