Well, There It is…

Putin, with a smile: US Global Dominance Is ‘Almost Done’.

In a foreign policy speech on Thursday night (2018.10.18) in Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the United States an ‘empire’, adding: the United States “often think they can make some little mistakes … because they’re so powerful. But when the number of these mistakes keeps growing, it reaches a level they cannot sustain.”

Later, responding to a question on nuclear weapons, Putin said Russia wouldn’t use nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike, but “retaliation is inevitable” and that Russians “as victims of aggression, as martyrs, will go to heaven.”

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