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Putin’s Press Confernence on Ukraine Conflict, Energy crisis and Colonial West

Putin: Destroying Russia and “disintegrating” it into a number of petty states has always been a top priority for the collective West.

Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor

September 16, 2022

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By Russia Today

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the media on Friday following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Earlier, he met with the leaders of China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Mongolia.

In his first press conference since July, the president was asked about the conflict with the West, the ongoing military operation in Ukraine, and the energy crisis in the European Union, among other things.

Here are some of the key moments from Putin’s press conference.

The West always strived to destroy RussiaDestroying Russia and “disintegrating” it into a number of petty states has always been a top priority for the collective West, the Russian president said. Ukraine, in its modern state, has been selected to become an “anti-Russian enclave” and the main tool to achieve such goals, Putin believes.

“The fact that they’ve always strived for the disintegration of our country is certain. It is only regrettable that at some point they decided to use Ukraine to achieve such goals,” Putin said. “In order to prevent such developments, we have launched the special military operation.” Attitude towards Ukraine may change. Moscow has demonstrated a very reserved reaction to such actions by the Ukrainian authorities as attempts to target vital infrastructure on Russian soil or stage “terror attacks,” Putin said.

“The special military operation is not a warning of some sort, but a special military operation. We’re witnessing attempts to stage terror attacks, attempts to damage our civilian infrastructure. We respond to this with restraint, but only for the time being,” Putin stated, warning that the approach may change in the future.

“Quite recently, the Russian armed forces delivered a couple of sensitive strikes, let’s say they were a warning. If the situation continues to develop in such fashion, the response will be more serious,” he added.

“The main goal is the liberation of the entire territory of Donbass. This work continues, despite the attempted counterattacks by the Ukrainian army,” Putin said, adding that it was too early to draw any conclusions from the ongoing counteroffensive by Kiev’s forces, and one should wait to see “how it ends.”

Prospects of peace talks with Ukraine are uncertainREAD MORE: Putin clarifies Russia’s main goal in UkraineRussia was ready to agree to security guarantees for Ukraine’s proposal during Istanbul talks back in March, the Russian president revealed. However, the negotiations were scuppered by Kiev.

“The troops were withdrawn from Kiev in order to create conditions for the reaching of this deal. Instead of inking it, the Kiev authorities immediately abandoned all agreements. They announced that they would not seek any deals with Russia, but would seek victory on the battlefield. Well, let them,” Putin said.

The prospects of further negotiations or personal talks between him and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky remain uncertain, Putin admitted. “First of all, they should agree [to hold the talks]. But they refuse. Zelensky declared that… he was not ready and not willing to talk with Russia. Well, if he’s not ready – there’s no need [for that],” Putin said.

Colonial mindset plagues the WestThe collective West still remains trapped in the colonial-era mindset, the Russian president said, suggesting that Western countries simply cannot give up their habit of living at the expense of someone else.

“These are former colonial powers, but they still live in the paradigm of colonial philosophy. They are accustomed to living at the expense of others. And they still cannot get rid of this paradigm in their practical daily politics,” Putin stated.

What caused the EU energy crisis ongoing energy crisis in Europe, which is routinely blamed on Russia and the fallout of its military operation in Ukraine, started long before the ongoing events, Putin believes. The EU created the crisis itself, and now is merely trying to solve it “at the expense of others,” he said.

READ MORE: Putin warns of more serious response in Ukraine“The energy crisis in Europe did not begin with the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, in Donbass, not with this, much earlier, a year ago, if not even earlier.

It began, while it may sound strange, with the ‘green’ agenda,” Putin stated, adding that while introducing green energy is important for tackling climate change, multiple European countries opted to ditch fossil-fuel energy at once to reach short-term political goals.

The Russian president also mocked the idea floated by European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen of sending the growing energy bills to Moscow, dismissing it as yet another attempt to “shift the problem, the headache from a sick head into a healthy one.”

Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor

Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the book, Kevin MacDonald’s Metaphysical Failure: A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Critique of Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, and Identity Politics. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.

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4 COMMENTS

zman September 17, 2022 At 6:45 am

Europe’s biggest problem is Von der Lyin.
- zman September 17, 2022 At 6:54 am
  
  Sonneborn in Germany voiced what most think about this creature and he didn’t mince words either.
Harold Saive September 17, 2022 At 5:04 am

Jonas…..Consider posting 2 recent reports by Pepe Escobar that reveal Putin’s leadership in breaking the West’s dream of a unipolar world at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) https://groups.google.com/g/town-square-news/c/alKPgmysT6Q
Adair Brion September 16, 2022 At 9:41 pm

The AFU’s “offensive” is collapsing as I type. Putin has sent in the Wagner group and they’re kicking ass and taking names that and the constant barrage of artillery plus strafing by Aerospace forces is taking its toll. One of Putin’s objectives aside from denazification was demilitarization and it seems as C&C he is achieving that objective in this “offensive” since once it’s over Kiev won’t have any actual military left.

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