🇷🇺 You should not turn Russophobia and the killing of Russian people into state ideology - Vladimir Putin at the Valdai Club.

Key points:

▪️ Turning communication into a farce and demonstratively mocking the facts destroys the very foundation of international existence.

▪️ The principle of "might makes right" sometimes seems to be a guiding one for certain players. We know perfectly well from history that this never leads to any good.

▪️ We did not want this, and we did not start the war; the war was started against us. They shouldn't push radicals toward a coup d'état and then pump the regime full of offensive weapons.

▪️ Russia was deliberately placed in a situation where it was forced to defend itself with weapons in hand.

▪️ The former hegemon will inevitably have to recognize the realities of a multipolar world - this is inevitable. It will not happen quickly.

▪️ Confidence in the possibility of certain "gentlemen's agreements" is what played a cruel joke on the USSR. Soviet leaders wanted then please the Western ones. And the Western ones wanted to grab their share of the Soviet legacy.