Putin ups the ante

Putin said on Thursday that the West could try to defeat Russia "on the battlefield" and said Moscow's intervention in Ukraine signaled a transition to a "multi-polar world".

"Obviously, they were trying not only to hit the Russian economy harder. Their aim was to sow discord and wreak havoc in our society, to discourage people.
But they miscalculated: It didn't happen and I'm sure it won't happen, " the Russian president said in a televised address to the Russian Parliament.

Sanctions are creating problems but not to the extent that Western countries wanted, he added.

"The policy of our parliament is based on the will of the people of Russia, on the belief that we are on the right side of history, on the unquestionable determination of the vast majority of the country's citizens to defend Russia's national sovereignty and help our people in Donbass. These are the bases of the politics of our state as a whole."

Russia has managed to maintain economic stability. The West doesn't need Russia as a country, that's why it supported separatism and terrorism.

The West's attempts to reverse the course of history are doomed to failure. The West is imposing on the world a model of total liberalism and a culture of cancellation, but this is impossible.

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