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Four out of every 10 British families with children under the age of 12 have been replacing meat in their diet with carbohydrates such as pasta and bread to bulk out their meals and get more out of their money. 18% of Brits are buying fewer vegetables and fruits, and almost a third are purchasing less meat, according to Red Tractor.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-03-brits-cope-meteoric-rise-food-prices.html
by: Cassie B.
Feb 5, 2023
The cost of food continues to rise in the UK, and the country’s food retailers have warned that price inflation will continue into the foreseeable future. The latest figures show grocery prices are now increasing at their fastest rate on record.
Figures provided by retail analyst Kantar found that grocery price inflation in the country reached a new record high of 16.7% in the four weeks that ended on January 22. This amounts to a nearly £ 800-pound increase on a typical yearly shopping bill. This is a notable increase from the 14.4% recorded in December and the highest level since figures were first tracked in 2008.
Some categories of food that have noted particularly sharp rises recently include eggs, milk and dog food. However, fruit, vegetables, sugar and alcohol have also noticed steep rises in the past month. According to Kantar, the price of basics such as cheese, milk, butter and bread is up 16.7% on a year-over-year basis. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that olive oil has risen by nearly 40% in the last year, while low-fat milk is up 46% and sugar is up 38.5%.
People are turning to store-label products, cheap carbs and expired food to feed their families
In response to record-setting inflation, some supermarkets are expanding their store label ranges to provide customers with more value. In January, sales of store-label products climbed by 9.3%; sales of branded alternatives only rose by 1%.
Four out of every 10 British families with children under the age of 12 have been replacing meat in their diet with carbohydrates such as pasta and bread to bulk out their meals and get more out of their money. 18% of Brits are buying fewer vegetables and fruits, and almost a third are purchasing less meat, according to Red Tractor.
Another way some people are making ends meet is by eating food that is well past its use-by date. According to the ONS, almost one in five adults say they have eaten food that was beyond its use-by date, which indicates when perishable food can safely be consumed. This is despite the Food Standards Agency warning that individuals should never eat food after this date – even if it smells or looks acceptable – because it could result in serious illness.
The ONS also found that 15% of adults are somewhat or very worried that they will run out of food before they can afford to purchase more. It also revealed that Brits are struggling to stay warm amid the higher costs of energy, with nearly a quarter of those polled saying that they struggled to stay comfortably warm during the previous two weeks.
Discount grocery chains like ALDI and Lidl have noted rising sales. For the fourth month in a row, ALDI was the country’s fastest-growing grocer, noting sales that were 26.9% higher year on year and taking a 9.2% share of the market. Sales at Lidl climbed by 24.1%; they took a market share of 7.1%. Meanwhile, the sales at bigger rivals like Sainsbury’s, Asda and Tesco only saw increases of 6%; sales at Morrisons dropped by 1.9%.
It’s bad news for Brits who are already struggling with inflation across the board. The Bank of England recently raised interest rates for the 10th time in a row, which is pushing monthly mortgage payments higher; its 0.5 percent rise places rates at 4%, which is the highest level seen since the financial crisis of 2008. A further rise to 4.25% is widely expected next month.
Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund has forecasted that the British economy will shrink this year and experience the poorest performance out of all developed countries, including Russia. The news isn’t much better in the U.S., where the prices of many foods have risen exponentially as well.
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by: Ethan Huff
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Remember at the start of covid when the media started publishing articles about temporary makeshift morgues being set up to handle all the extra bodies that were supposedly piling up due to the “virus?” Those stories are once again appearing in the news cycle, which begs the question: Is this another plandemic in the making?
The U.K.-based Mirror media outlet claims that hospitals across Great Britain are overflowing with sick patients to the point that vehicle and business parks are being converted to gritting yards for storing excess corpses.
Large containers capable of holding dozens of bodily remains are appearing all over the place, we are told, including near the Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire and the Royal Liverpool Hospital in Liverpool.
These containers, which are basically shipping units, have guarded surveillance around them 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Some of them are refrigerated, including one that appeared at High Post Salt Store near Salisbury, along with two more in Liverpool.
According to the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, there is an “increase in need across the community” for these storage units as bodies are supposedly piling up with no more room at local hospitals.
“It’s all very disappointing,” said Joyce Robins, founder of Patient Concern. “It’s the sort of thing that should be planned for.”
“Putting them in a gritting yard makes it look like we just don’t care about these people when they die. It’s terribly sad for the families. A bit of respect is what we need.”
Are all these dead bodies piling up because of covid vaccines?
Strangely, the media and the National Health Service (NHS) are silent as to the cause of all these excess deaths. This suggests that perhaps another plandemic is not what this is, but rather we are seeing the fallout from covid mass vaccination.
With excess deaths skyrocketing all over the place – and especially in areas with high uptake of covid injections – this would appear to be the case. One wonders if the powers that be could even get away with another plandemic were they to try.
The only way they might would be to disguise all these covid vaccine deaths as another “plague” or “virus.” Some people would believe it, and that would explain why temporary morgues are starting to pile up around the U.K.
“We can confirm that we have opened additional mortuary capacity to accommodate an increase in need across the local community,” said a spokesman for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust about these makeshift morgues.
“Our mortuary service operates to the national standards treating the deceased and loved ones with dignity and respect at all times regardless of location.”
Over at The Sun, it is explained that the temporary morgues, many of which are 40-foot shipping containers, can hold about 35 bodies each. These same shipping containers appeared at the height of the covid scamdemic, which saw at least 1,000 deaths a day in Great Britain.
Avoiding any mention of covid vaccines, The Sun is blaming “cold weather, surging flu infections and long waits for ambulances” on the reappearance of these shipping container morgues.
“If you can’t get an ambulance to someone who’s having a heart attack or a stroke, then some of those patients may die as a result,” claims the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, blaming all these excess deaths on “record delays for urgent care.”
(Related: People are also dying because of the after-effects of the lockdowns, which destroyed many people’s mental health and left them with chronic illnesses unrelated to covid.)
More related news can be found at Pandemic.news.
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WORLD AT WAR
Patriarch Kirill blames “madmen” for believing Russia can be defeated.
January 20, 2023
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The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has warned that any attempt to “destroy Russia” by “madmen” trying to impose their values will lead to “the end of the world.”
The comments were made by Patriarch Kirill after a religious service marking the Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany.
According to Patriarch Kirill, “madmen” are stupid enough to believe that Russia, which “has powerful weapons and is populated by extremely strong people,” can be defeated despite the fact that it has “never given in to an enemy and had always emerged victorious.”
The church leader also decried how such “madmen” were trying to “impose on them certain values that cannot even be called values, so that they would be like everyone else and obey those who have the power to control most of the world.”
“We pray to the Lord so that he enlightens those madmen and helps them understand that any desire to destroy Russia will mean the end of the world,” said Patriarch Kirill.
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev made similar remarks when he asserted that Russia had “never lost a major conflict on which their fate depended” and that the result of defeat in a conventional war would be the triggering of nuclear war.
Meanwhile, in a potentially massive new escalation, the New York Times reported that the United States is considering working with Ukraine to attack Crimea, emboldened by the belief that “fears that the Kremlin would retaliate using a tactical nuclear weapon have dimmed.”
“Biden’s neocon handlers are essentially taunting Russia to use nukes against Ukraine,” comments Chris Menahan.
In another Orwellian speech, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Davos globalists that military escalation is the only way to bring about the end of the war, remarking, “Weapons are the way to peace.”
Gee, I wonder what caused this?
How can you possibly have overlooked the COVID vaccine as a possible cause of the huge rise in excess deaths? The evidence is in plain sight.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-british-heart
Dear British Heart Foundation,
I just finished reading an article in the Telegraph entitled “Critics claim Covid jabs are causing heart problems – do they have any proof?” where you were quoted as saying:
The British Heart Foundation told The Telegraph: “The scientific consensus is that the benefits of Covid vaccination, including a reduced risk of severe illness or death, far outweigh the very small risk of rare side effects like myocarditis or pericarditis for the vast majority of people, especially as people get older.
I was wondering if your staff would be open to publicly discussing this statement with me and a team of expert cardiologists including Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Aseem Malhotra as well as MIT Professor Retsef Levi (the senior author of Increased emergency cardiovascular events among under-40 population in Israel during vaccine rollout and third COVID-19 wave and Dr. Ryan Cole, one of the few pathologists in the US who specializes in COVID vaccine pathology?
The evidence is in plain sight; why are you ignoring it?
There is a large amount of evidence in plain sight that your recent comprehensive report on this subject has completely missed. The evidence shows that the COVID vaccine is, in fact, the most likely cause of all the cardiac issues experienced throughout the world. It is the elephant in the room.
To our utter astonishment, the COVID vaccine wasn’t even listed as a possible cause of cardiac death in the report, even though we can clearly show it is the major driver of the increased number of events.
For example, this analysis by the brilliant UK Professor Norman Fenton shows that the only thing that correlates with the excess deaths is the COVID vaccine. Did he get it wrong? Your comprehensive document never refutes his analysis. In fact, I haven’t seen anyone anywhere in the world show that he got it wrong and provide the correct analysis. Why do you think that is?
After the Schwab paper proved the COVID vaccines can kill people by damaging their hearts, where was the outcry from the British Heart Foundation? Did I miss this?
Where is the call to halt the COVID vaccine program in your report? It appears it was overlooked.
I have more data. Lots more data.
There was a study done on 175 people who got vaccinated in Puerto Rico. Do you know how many were diagnosed with myocarditis after the shot? The number will knock your socks off. I guarantee it. It makes the 29% rate of heart injury post-vaccine in the Thailand study look like a rounding error. I’ll share the data with you when we meet.
I think it is telling that nobody in the world accepted my offer to bet $1M that the vaccines killed more people than they saved. Not even the drug companies were willing to risk money on this.
In short, nobody in the entire world is willing to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to their statements on vaccine safety and efficacy.
That should give you pause… if the vaccine is so safe, why isn’t anyone willing to bet on a “sure thing” bet to get $1M?
Have you talked to any geriatric medical practices?
I am curious… have you ever picked up the phone and called a few large geriatric practices to see what is really going on?
It’s always good to do a “reality check” just to make sure that what you are being told in the medical literature is actually consistent with what is happening on the ground. Trust, but verify is important nowadays if you want to know the truth.
It’s not hard to do. The first large geriatric practice I spoke with has nearly 1,000 patients over 65 and they see around 11 deaths each year. It fluctuates every year with sigma= 3.3, exactly as predicted from Poisson distribution statistics. But in 2022, they had 36 deaths which is a 7.5 sigma event. So that couldn’t have happened by chance. The excess deaths were all attributed to the COVID vaccine by the doctor and nurse in that clinic. They can’t go public for fear of having their medical licenses revoked, but I can supply you with the de-identified patient records and case histories for all the deceased so you can verify this yourself. The 25 excess deaths in 2022 cannot be explained any other way as far as we know. This is highly statistically significant.
How can you ignore evidence like this?
Can you find any geriatric practices anywhere in the world where all-cause mortality dropped after the COVID vaccines rolled out?
I look forward to a public discussion.
It’s important that we get to the truth, isn’t it?
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/12/25/695110/Putin-says-Russia-ready-to-negotiate-over-Ukraine
Dec 25, 2022
He also blasted the West for trying to “tear apart” Russia and stressed that Russia was acting in the “right direction” in Ukraine. “At the core of it all is the policy of our geopolitical opponents, aiming to tear apart Russia, the historical Russia,” Putin said. “They have always tried to ‘divide and conquer’… Our goal is something else — to unite the Russian people.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo by Reuters)
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine, but Kiev and its Western allies refuse to engage in talks.
In an interview aired on Sunday on Rossiya 1 state television, Putin manifested his government’s readiness to sit at the negotiating table but asked for a two-way solution.
“We are ready to negotiate with everyone involved about acceptable solutions, but that is up to them – we are not the ones refusing to negotiate, they are,” Putin said.
He also blasted the West for trying to “tear apart” Russia and stressed that Russia was acting in the “right direction” in Ukraine.
“At the core of it all is the policy of our geopolitical opponents, aiming to tear apart Russia, the historical Russia,” Putin said.
“They have always tried to ‘divide and conquer’… Our goal is something else — to unite the Russian people.”
He added, “I believe that we are acting in the right direction, we are defending our national interests, the interests of our citizens, our people. And we have no other choice but to protect our citizens.”
Referring to the patriot missiles, recently pledged by the US government as military aid to Ukraine, Putin said that he is “100 percent” confident that his forces would destroy the Pentagon’s most advanced air defense system.
“Of course we will destroy it, 100 percent!” Putin stressed.
In his first trip outside Ukraine since the offensive began in February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earned firm pledges of support from US President Joe Biden, including the Pentagon’s most advanced air system.
The US and its Western allies have provided Ukraine with a raft of lethal armaments, after the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
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With its array of hypersonic missiles, Russia can knock out all NATO bridges, ports, airports as well as power stations, oil and natural gas storage, Rotterdam oil and natural gas installations, in a matter of a few hours. All energy production equipment across NATOstan would be destroyed. Europe would be shut off from natural resources. A dazed and confused Empire would be unable to move troops, any troops, to Europe.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-news-natostan-imposed-meat-grinder
BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, DEC 18, 2022
Authored by Pepe Escobar
Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show.
No one ever lost money capitalizing on the unlimited nonsense spewed out by the collective deer-caught-in-the-headlights also known as Western mainstream media – complete with showering Person of the Year awards on a megalomaniac, cocaine-fueled lousy actor impersonating a warlord.
The non-stop trashy parade of Western military analysts is now “assessing” that the first targets of an incoming, joint Russia-Belarus attack on the 404 black hole formerly known as Ukraine will be Lviv, Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr, and why not throw Kiev in the mix straight out of a second axis.
The Russian General Staff is attentively monitoring all the action and may even follow the advice of such “analysts”.
And then there’s outright panic, as the Ministry of Defense announced that the Strategic Missile Forces have loaded two Yars ICBMs into their intended silos. Cue to widespread shrieks of horror of the “Russia Readies Nuclear Missile Capable Of Striking Deep Into US” variety.
Some facts though never change. Number One is NATO as a figment of the collective West’s – extremely impaired – imagination. If push ever came to shove – as Straussian/neo-con armchair warriors hope and pray – Russia can conveniently defeat the whole of NATO as there is hardly anything “there”.
That, of course, would require a massive Russian mobilization. As it stands, Russia may look feeble in a few quarters as they activated at best 100,000 troops against possibly 1 million Ukrainian troops. It’s as if Moscow was not exactly seduced by the idea of “winning” – which may be the case, in a quite twisted way.
Even now, Moscow has not mobilized enough troops to occupy Ukraine – which, in theory, would be imperative to completely “denazify” the Kiev racket. The operative concept though is “in theory”. Moscow in fact is busy demonstrating a completely new theory – irrespective of the fact that a few exalted souls have been peddling that Putin should be replaced by the FSB’s Alexander Bortnikov.
“There will be nothing left of the enemy”
With its array of hypersonic missiles, Russia can knock out all NATO bridges, ports, airports as well as power stations, oil and natural gas storage, Rotterdam oil and natural gas installations, in a matter of a few hours. All energy production equipment across NATOstan would be destroyed. Europe would be shut off from natural resources. A dazed and confused Empire would be unable to move troops, any troops, to Europe.
And still provocations run unabated. The recent attack by Tu-141 Ukrainian drones against Engels-2 airbase was blamed by Moscow on Kiev – which predictably denied all responsibility. Yet what really mattered was Moscow’s strategic messaging to US/NATO, with Putin flirting with the notion that sooner or later the response may be up a serious notch in case US/NATO weaponry supplied to Kiev is used to strike deep into sensitive Russian Federation territory.
The current Russian doctrine even allows Moscow to respond with nuclear strikes; after all Engels-2 airbase is home to nuclear-capable bombers, prime strategic assets.
The drones were certainly launched by infiltrated agents inside Russian territory. If they had originated from outside Russia, and interpreted as nuclear missiles, that could have triggered the launch against NATOstan of hundreds of Russian nuclear missiles.
Putin himself made it – ominously – quite clear at the Eurasia Economic Council summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, a week ago:
“I assure you, after the early warning system receives a signal of a missile attack, hundreds of our missiles are in the air (…) It is impossible to stop them (…) There will be nothing left of the enemy because it is impossible to intercept a hundred missiles. This, of course, is a deterrent – a serious deterrent.”
Not, of course, to the stupidity-corroded Straussian-neocon gang who are actually running American foreign “policy”.
It’s no wonder reliable Russian intel sources established that the missiles that hit Engels-2 were locally launched, though the Kiev regime desired it to be believed otherwise.
And that turns the whole charade into a Dadaist farce – with a dazed and confused Empire still bound to a maniac in Kiev who still believes that the Ukrainian S-300 that hit Poland came from Russia. Cue to the whole world – and not only Washington – as hostage to a “Person of the Year” maniac with the – virtual – power of provoking a worldwide nuclear war.
Red Napoleon in da house
Meanwhile, on the ground, Russia has gone Deep Operations Strategy, big time. In several spots along the extensive frontline, they attack the points that are most likely to draw out poor Ukrainian reserves hiding in the second line of defense. When reserves come out through barren, muddy lands and terrible roads to the rescue of frontline units, entire battalions are massacred.
Russians never go deep into the third line – where command and control may be located. What’s in play is attrition warfare under Deep Operations Strategy, straight out of the playbook of the legendary “Red Napoleon”, Field Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
Russia saves soldiers, personnel and equipment. The whole thing works wonders in difficult terrain where vehicles get bogged down in rainy roads. This rinse and repeat tactic, day in day out, for months on end has led to (at least) 400,000 Ukrainian casualties. Call it the epitome of Attritional Warfare.
Historians will relish that the whole scenario resembles the Battle of Agincourt – where wave after wave of French Knights (playing the role of present day Ukrainians, and Polish/NATO mercenaries) kept running uphill against English archers and knights who just stood still and let them come, hitting the second line again and again.
The difference, of course, is that Russians are employing attritional warfare tactics day after day for six months now, while Agincourt was just one battle in a single day. By the time this meat grinder is over an entire generation of Ukrainians and Poles will have gone to meet their maker.
The collective West’s myth of a Ukrainian “victory” against the Russian war of attrition does not even qualify as cosmic delusion. It’s a lousy, lethal joke. The only way out would be to sit down at the negotiating table, now, before the hammer (the next Russian offensive) comes down on the anvil (the existing frontline).
But NATO, of course, as Stultifying Stoltenberg keeps reminding the world, does not do negotiations.
Which, in a sense, may be a blessing, as NATO may end up breaking up in myriad pieces, totally humiliated on the ground despite all its elaborate warmongering plans.
Andrei Martyanov has been peerless tracking the collective West’s complete economic, moral, intellectual – and most of all military – degradation, everything drenched in lies, lousy P.R. twists and “stupefying incompetence across the board.”
All this while Russia prepares “for yet another ‘defeat’, like retaking all of Donbass and then… Who knows what then. A quick win for Russia would be a loss because NATO would still exist. No, Russia has to pace this so as it sucks in NATO into the grinder.”
Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show. Oh, wait; she’s actually reincarnated, and her name is Maria Zakharova.
The NHS has put treatment delays down to staffing shortages and insufficient diagnostic capacity
https://www.rt.com/news/568313-uk-nhs-warns-cancer-crisis/
Dec 15, 2022
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Britain is in the midst of a major healthcare crisis as months-long delays in cancer treatment have become increasingly commonplace, leading to higher mortality, the National Health Service (NHS) has warned.
On Wednesday, several British media outlets cited recent NHS figures, which showed that nearly 40% of all cancer patients urgently referred by their GP in October had to wait two months before receiving treatment. This is said to be the second-worst performance on record and well short of the 15% target.
The Guardian quoted doctors as saying that a mere four-week delay in cancer treatment “increases mortality by between 6% and 13% for solid cancers, with further increases if the delay is longer.”
Meanwhile, according to an article published in the Lancet Oncology journal, there has been a 17% rise in UK cancer deaths caused by delays in diagnosis and treatment since the Covid-19 pandemic. This is believed to have contributed considerably to the breakdown of cancer treatment practices in the country.
Clinicians from Imperial College London, the Institute of Cancer Policy at King’s College, Radiotherapy UK, and Check4Cancer have called for immediate action to tackle the crisis.
READ MORE: Mental health issues rising among youth in England
Oncologist and founder of the CatchUpWithCancer campaign, Professor Pat Price, characterized the current situation as a “watershed moment for UK cancer services – the biggest cancer crisis ever.” He also warned that Britain “can’t accept the normalization of record-breaking cancer treatment waiting times.”
Other healthcare professionals noted that the “NHS and frontline staff need the same urgency and leadership, combined with the authority to work through obstructive bureaucracy, that was given to the Covid-19 vaccine taskforce.”
A 2021 report cited staff shortages and a lack of diagnostic tools, especially in the areas of radiology and pathology, among the main reasons for the current state of affairs.
In order to turn the tide, doctors called on the NHS to find ways to retain staff and “give them the tools and support they need to do their jobs.”
Special emphasis should be placed on investment in radiotherapy, which is said to be in danger of collapse in Britain.
Meanwhile, an NHS spokesperson told the media that the authorities are already “investing billions to expand diagnostic and treatment services to meet increased demand.”
NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has expressed a fear that the alliance may be dragged into a full-blown war with Russia this winter.
The NATO chief said that the alliance’s most important task was to prevent war in Europe but is worried “If things go wrong, things can go terribly wrong.”
Breitbart reports: Stoltenberg told Norwegian broadcaster NRK this week “It’s a very serious and fateful time in Europe, and thus also for Norway”
“I fear that the war in Ukraine will get out of control and spread into a major war between NATO and Russia. But I am confident that we will avoid it,” Stoltenberg said.
“[Putin] knows it’s all for one, and one for all. NATO’s most important task is to prevent all-out war in Europe, and that is enough we are working on every single day,” he added.
Stoltenberg also acknowledged growing issues regarding food prices and energy in Europe, saying: “It is a painful price we in Europe bear. But it will be a great price to pay if our freedom is threatened by Putin winning in Ukraine.”
While the NATO chief said that he remains confident in Ukraine’s military abilities in the conflict, others, such as Dr. Gunnar Beck, a Member of Parliament (MEP) for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, claimed the west has “misplaced optimism” in a victory against Russia.
“There is a lot of triumphalism right now, talk of Russia being pushed back to its pre-conflict borders and I think that’s misplaced triumphalism. What we need in Ukraine, above all, is a genuine compromise peace as soon as possible,” Dr. Beck told Breitbart London last month.
The US and its “satellites” are using the country as a battering ram against Russia, the president insists
A working security architecture that can deal with modern challenges must be “based not on some mythical unwritten rules, which nobody has seen, not on someone’s domination and monopolization, but only on international law and respect for one another’s interests,” Putin added.
https://www.rt.com/russia/567956-putin-ukraine-cannon-fodder/
Dec 9, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin. © Kremlin
Western nations are intentionally seeding chaos and violence to achieve their geopolitical goals, Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed. The conflict in Ukraine is an attempt by “the US and its satellites” to use the country to harm Russia, he stated.
Putin offered the disparaging analysis in a video address to defense ministers from several Asian nations who had assembled for a summit in Moscow.
“For years, the West has been brazenly draining and exploiting [Ukraine’s] resources, encouraged genocide and terror in Donbass, de-facto turned this nation into a colony, and is now cynically using the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder, a battering ram against Russia, as it keeps delivering weapons and munitions to Ukraine, sending mercenaries, pushing it down the path of suicide,” Putin said.
This violence is just one example of the destructive influence that Western nations exert around the world, in an attempt to preserve dominance on the global stage, the Russian president contended.
Kremlin promises to ‘liberate’ territory held by Ukraine
A working security architecture that can deal with modern challenges must be “based not on some mythical unwritten rules, which nobody has seen, not on someone’s domination and monopolization, but only on international law and respect for one another’s interests,” Putin added.
The US and other Western nations pledged to provide military assistance to Ukraine “for as long as it takes” Kiev to defeat Moscow. The cause was crucial for a “rules-based order” senior US officials claimed.
The defense ministers convening in the Russian capital represent member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Russia and the Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have joined both regional organizations. SCO includes major powers like China and India in its ranks.
Putin urged closer cooperation between the militaries of participant states, arguing that cooperation and joint training exercises will help them ensure better security for all. He stressed the importance of taking part in peacekeeping missions, including those under the aegis of the United Nations.
The sad part is that this is true.
Tales from the Conspiratum 
