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====2022 Valdai Club speech====

====2022 Valdai Club speech====

Addressing the 2022 Valdai Club Conference,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TryhKTBBdBs Vladimir Putin Address at the Valdai International Discussion Club 2022]</ref> President Putin said:

Addressing the 2022 [[Valdai Club]] Conference,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TryhKTBBdBs Vladimir Putin Address at the Valdai International Discussion Club 2022]</ref> President Putin said:

{{quotebox-float|"Power over the world is what the West has put at stake in the game it plays...Western nations, which want to [[Hollywood values|impose their values]] and vision as universal, are robbing everyone, including themselves...First of all, this eradicates the creative potential of the West itself...There is a mercantile interest here too...Our adversaries, as I would call them, are trying to expand markets for their products...It’s ultimately as primitive as that...This game is certainly dangerous, bloody and I would call it dirty...Western nations deny others on the global scene the right to any kind of independence, be it political, economical or cultural...Last December [2021], Russia’s proposals to address its concerns about national security were “tossed aside” by [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]...But in the modern world, sitting aside is hardly an option, the West can’t sit out the crises it caused...He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind, as the proverb says”.}}

{{quotebox-float|"Power over the world is what the West has put at stake in the game it plays...Western nations, which want to [[Hollywood values|impose their values]] and vision as universal, are robbing everyone, including themselves...First of all, this eradicates the creative potential of the West itself...There is a mercantile interest here too...Our adversaries, as I would call them, are trying to expand markets for their products...It’s ultimately as primitive as that...This game is certainly dangerous, bloody and I would call it dirty...Western nations deny others on the global scene the right to any kind of independence, be it political, economical or cultural...Last December [2021], Russia’s proposals to address its concerns about national security were “tossed aside” by [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]...But in the modern world, sitting aside is hardly an option, the West can’t sit out the crises it caused...He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind, as the proverb says”.}}