MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin says the West will fail in its attempts to isolate Russia and face growing economic problems.
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Speaking Thursday via video link to members of the Eurasian Economic Forum, Putin said Russia wasn’t going to shut itself off from international cooperation. The forum includes several ex-Soviet nations.
Putin said that trying to isolate Russia is “impossible, utterly unrealistic in the modern world” and “those who try to do it primarily hurt themselves.”
The Russian leader cited growing economic challenges in the West, including “inflation unseen in 40 years, growing unemployment, rupture of supply chains and the worsening of global crises in such sensitive spheres as food.”
“This is not a joke,” he said. “This is a serious thing that will have an impact on the entire system of economic and political relations.”
He lambasted the West for seizing Russian reserves, saying that “the theft of others’ assets never brought any good.”
As long as oil is $110 a barrel Russia will be OK. Our job is to bring down oil prices and that will crush Putin. That means drill, frack, explore natraul gas, offshore drilling whatever it takes. We have a Russia and supply chain crisis, Climate is not a crisis. Biden alone can fix this.
putin – one of the richest people in the world, me – poor, putin talk, i listen.
the issue is that russians are used to living at levels will not get much worse compared to how much worse it will get in the west. Therefore, this will cause terrible instability in the multi-culti societies of the west that cannot even be honest with themselves, where every act of evil is explained and excused. So, my, friends, he has a point….
Putin is correct that beyond the West, its been business as usual with Russia. He is also correct that the West’s sanctions have caused self-inflicted damage to Western economies and families. Whether in the long run the West’s efforts will fail remains to be seen.