[Forwarded from Eurasia & Multipolarity]
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Putin, continued: "We are told that we started the war in Donbass, in Ukraine. No! It was started by this very collective West that organised and supported the unconstitutional armed coup in Ukraine in 2014. And then encouraging and justifying genocide against people in Donbass. This collective West is the direct instigator and perpetrator of what is happening today.
If this West wanted to provoke a conflict in order to move on to a new stage in the fight against Russia, to contain our country, then we can say that it has succeeded to a certain extent. And war has been unleashed, and sanctions have been imposed. Under normal circumstances it would probably have been difficult to do this. But they should have realised that they have already lost from the very beginning of our special military operation, because the beginning of it also means the beginning of a cardinal breakdown of the world order in the American way."