Western ‘World Order Is Finished’ Amid Russia–Ukraine War, Says Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that the Western world order is collapsing and that U.S. and EU sanctions against his government have failed. “The previous world order is finished,” Putin said at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg. Dismissing the sanctions as part of a “propaganda campaign,” Putin added, “What all these spells about 200-to-1 ruble-dollar exchange rates and claims that our economy would collapse were all about. All this was … and remains … a tool in the information warfare, an attempt to put psychological pressure on Russian society.” “The European Union has completely lost its…