Putin: Russia Showed Readiness for Dialog with West for Years, But Was Ignored, Rebuffed

Moscow –Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that  Russia has showed readiness for dialog with the West for years, but it was ignored and rebuffed.

The Russian president made the comments in a major State of the Union-style address focused on the crisis in Ukraine and the broader global security crisis.

Russia spent many years seeking a constructive dialogue with the West, and proposing an indivisible, equality-based system of joint security, but received only a “hypocritical” reaction – NATO’s expansion to Russia’s borders, and missile defense umbrellas across Europe and Asia,  Putin has said.

Speaking to lawmakers during his address to the Federal Assembly on Tuesday, Putin accused the US and its allies of playing the “same double game” in the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine as they had in the years and decades prior in other countries.

“This disgusting method of deception has used many times before. [The West] behaved just as shamelessly, duplicitously, destroying Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. They will never be able to wash themselves clean of this shame. The concepts of honor, trust, decency are foreign to them. After many centuries of colonialism, dictate, and hegemony they have become used to everything being allowed to them, have become accustomed to spitting on the entire world; and it turned out that they treat the peoples of their own countries in the same way,” Putin said.

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Raghda Sawas