Putin says decade ahead ‘most dangerous’ since WWII

By AFP 27 October 2022, 7:12 pm Edit

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at the plenary session of the 19th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, October 27, 2022. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the coming decade will be the “most dangerous” since the end of World War II, while accusing the West of seeking to dominate the world.

“Ahead is probably the most dangerous, unpredictable, and, at the same time, important decade since the end of the Second World War,” Putin tells members of the annual Valdai Discussion Club, adding that the situation is “to a certain extent revolutionary.”

The Ukraine offensive is only a part of the “tectonic shifts of the entire world order,” Putin says.

“The historical period of undivided dominance of the West in world affairs is coming to an end. The unipolar world is becoming a thing of the past,” he says.

“We are at a historical frontier,” he added.

Putin adds that the West is not able to “single-handedly govern humanity” but is “desperately trying to do it.”