Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the results of the US elections in November 2024 will not change Washington’s attitude towards Moscow and its invasion of Ukraine, regardless of whether the Democrats or Republicans win. “I believe that no matter who is elected president, there will be no major changes in the direction of U.S. foreign policy toward Russia,” the president said during a colloquium at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, southeastern Russia. Putin has assured that he will not negotiate with Kiev as long as Ukrainian forces continue their fight, and this time he has accused the West, which he has described on other occasions as perverted and flawed, of wanting to “Catholicize Russia and put Russia in its place.” point”. Holy See.” [de la Iglesia católica]“.
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The Russian president has assured that not even former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump will change North American policy toward the invasion. “Mr Trump says he will solve the problems in a few days [estadounidenses] most pressing problems, including the Ukraine crisis. “We can only be happy, but as president he imposed sanctions on Russia,” Putin recalled, expressing his joy at the trials launched against Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 elections and illegally possessing secret documents . among other things. other fees.
“Everything that happens in the United States is good for us,” Putin emphasized. “What is happening to Trump is political persecution,” the Russian leader added, before emphasizing that Washington “has thus exposed its internal problems.”
However, Putin was full of praise for tycoon Elon Musk, another rising figure in North American politics, who recently admitted that he blocked access to his Starlink satellite network to Ukraine as his troops prepared to attack Russia Attack fleet using coordinates. “Elon Musk is without a doubt an extraordinary personality in business. This must be acknowledged. “He is an active and talented businessman,” the Russian president said.
The president made these statements in the far east of Russia, where he is planning a meeting with Kim Jong-un. The North Korean dictator has already arrived by train in the region where both leaders will hold an important summit: Moscow needs Korean ammunition to continue its offensive, while Pyongyang, internationally isolated, is looking for a strong foreign ally.
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Putin warned during his appearance that he would not end his war until Ukrainian forces gave up. “In many places, those who act or want to act as mediators ask us whether we are ready to stop hostilities. How can we stop hostilities if the other side launches a counteroffensive?” Putin asked rhetorically.
Putin has boasted about having new troops, although Western intelligence reports that Russian forces do not have enough personnel to rotate. “We carried out a partial mobilization (in autumn 2022) and called on 300,000 people. Now, in the last six to seven months, 270,000 people have voluntarily signed service contracts with the armed forces and volunteer units,” the Russian leader noted.
However, Putin did not clarify how many of these documents were sealed by combatants who were already part of other units and therefore are not new soldiers: the Defense Ministry noted that since July 1, all foreign troops, including Wagner’s mercenaries, had to be sealed Sign a service agreement with the organization. “Our men, the Russians, know what is expected of them, that they can give their lives for their country, be seriously injured and still do it consciously and voluntarily,” praised the President.
On the other hand, Putin has downplayed the fact that the West is providing Ukraine with F-16 jets and other modern weapons. “Will this change anything? I don’t think so,” the Russian president admitted publicly. He also attacked Washington for his inconsistency. “The US government believed that the use of cluster munitions was a war crime, as it publicly stated. Now they themselves are delivering cluster munitions to the combat zone in Ukraine,” said Putin, whose troops also use this type of weapon on the front lines.
Putin has on other occasions accused the West of being dominated by “degeneration” and vice, even stressing that European and American families have “father one, father two and father three.” In his final intervention, however, he characterized his enemy very differently: “The West has long tried to catholicize Russia, to drag it under the Holy See,” the Russian leader said, characterizing this supposed crusade as “the spiritual aspect of their geopolitical confrontation. “
Internally, Putin has also sent a dark message to businessmen and senior officials who have left Russia because they disagree with the invasion of Ukraine. Specifically, the Russian president named two important names who live in exile in Israel.
One of them was Anatoly Chubais, the father of Russian privatizations after the collapse of the Soviet Union and a high-ranking official who was very close to the Kremlin over the past two decades. The former head of the state consortium Rusnano, which specializes in nanotechnology, was accused by Putin of ruining the company. “Thank God there are no criminal proceedings or prosecutions. Perhaps [su huida] This is because he fears that all this will ultimately lead to the creation of some criminal cases. Therefore, he would be staying in Israel illegally,” Putin said, referring to a possible extradition request.
On February 24, 2022, the day Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine by land, sea and air, Chubais posted on his social networks a photo of opponent Borín Nemtsov, who was assassinated in front of the Kremlin in 2015 after Protests against military intervention had been led by Russian in the Ukrainian Donbas region.
The other exile mentioned by Putin was the founder of Yandex, the Russian Google, Arkady Volozh. “He lives in Israel and I imagine that he lives well there and has good relations with the authorities, which is why he is forced to make certain statements.” He was silent for a long time, but decided to make a statement. Well, may God grant him health and may he have a good life there,” the president warned. Volozh wrote an anti-war letter in August and deleted his Russian nationality from his personal website, defining himself as a “Kazakhstan-born Israeli technology entrepreneur, computer scientist, investor and philanthropist.”
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