Vladimir Putin has warned that “a new stage in world history” is coming in a speech in which he condemned “the model of total domination” by the West.
During the address on Wednesday in Moscow, the Russian leader took a swipe at the populations of Western countries, which he described as the “golden billion”, and asked why their leaders should “impose their own rules of conduct based on the illusion of exclusivity” which he believed was “inherently racist and neo-colonial.”
“One gets the impression that the West simply cannot offer the world its own model of the future,” Putin said, as he described how the dominance of the West owed itself to “the robbery of other peoples both in Asia and in Africa.”
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