The next 20 years may be more difficult for humanity than the last two decades, according to the TASS agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin said today at the Valdai discussion club. In addition, the head of the Kremlin again criticized the West and called the North Atlantic Alliance an anachronism. He then identified the BRICS community of emerging economies, which Russia chairs this year, as a model example of a modern grouping.
“If we look back 20 years and evaluate the extent of changes and project these changes into the coming years, it can be assumed that the next twenty years will be no less, if not more complex,” said the 72-year-old Putin. “Experts talk about the threats of new regional conflicts, global epidemics, complex and ambiguous ethical aspects of human-artificial intelligence interaction, how tradition and progress combine with each other,” he added.
Putin again criticized the Western countries and again blamed them for the war in Ukraine. This, however, was unleashed by Russia about two and a half years ago on his orders. According to Putin, there is no point in trying to put pressure on Russia, but Moscow is said to be ready to act.
Today, he blamed the United States for trying to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia in Ukraine and spoke of the fact that there is a struggle to shape a new world order after the dominance of the West, Reuters noted.
“We have reached a dangerous divide. Calls from the West to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, the country with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, demonstrate the extreme adventurism of Western politicians, at least some of them,” said Putin, who also called NATO an anachronism in his speech. “There is only one bloc left in the world today bound by obligations, rigid ideological dogmas and clichés. It is the North Atlantic Alliance,” Putin declared.
He identified BRICS as a prototype of a modern grouping and claimed that some NATO member countries also want to cooperate with this economic grouping. “The former structure of the world is irretrievably disappearing, we can say that it has already passed, and a serious, irreconcilable struggle is developing to create a new one,” the head of the Kremlin claimed.
Source: www.tyden.cz
