Kremlin boss Putin identifies one of the main goals of the NATO countries: to "liquidate" Russia, as he now emphasizes in an interview. Therefore, Russia cannot ignore their nuclear weapons capability. According to Putin, the West has long been involved in the war.
According to its President Vladimir Putin, Russia has no choice but to take into account the Western military alliance's nuclear weapons capability. The reason for this is NATO aggression, according to the Kremlin boss. The West wants to destroy Russia, he told the state television channel Rossiya 1, as reported by the TASS news agency. This is a propaganda accusation he often makes. "Under today's conditions, when all leading NATO countries have declared their main objective to inflict a strategic defeat on us so that our people suffer, as they say, how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities under these conditions?"
The West wants to liquidate Russia, Putin said. "They have one goal: to dissolve the former Soviet Union and its essential part - the Russian Federation," TASS quoted the president as saying. The West is an indirect accomplice to the crimes committed by Ukraine. In fact, the West accuses Russia of having committed numerous human rights crimes in Ukraine.
According to experts, Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world with almost 6,000 warheads. Together, Russia and the United States, NATO's leading power, own around 90 percent of the world's nuclear warheads.
Because of their arms deliveries to Kiev, Putin accused the NATO member states of "participation" in the Ukraine war, which Russia just calls "special operations". "They are sending arms worth tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine. It's really a stake," he said. "This means that they are complicit, albeit indirectly, in the crimes of the Kiev regime."
Putin also reiterated his call for a multipolar world. He had "no doubt" that this would happen. "Against what are we? Against this new world that is emerging being built in the interest of only one country, the United States," said the Russian president. "Now that their attempts to reshape the world to their liking after the fall of the Soviet Union have led to this situation, we are compelled to respond."
The conversation was held on Thursday at a patriotic concert in Moscow. It took place on the eve of the first anniversary of the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
