Putin Says Russia Is Ready To Go To War With Europe "right Now"
- 2.12.2025, 23:03
The dictator of the Russian Federation named a condition.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is not going to go to war with Europe, but is ready for it "right now" if the conflict is initiated by Brussels, RIA Novosti reports.
- We are not going to go to war with Europe, I have already said this 100 times, but if Europe suddenly wants to go to war with us and starts, we are ready right now. There can be no doubts here," Putin said on December 2 after speaking at VTB's "Russia Calling!" investment forum.
At the same time, he threatened that "if Europe suddenly wants to go to war and starts a war, a situation can very quickly occur in which we will have no one to negotiate with.
Putin accused the EU of "putting forward absolutely unacceptable for Russia proposals for the settlement" of the war in Ukraine and is going to "block this whole peace process altogether" in order to "then blame it on Russia."
The ruler's version is that the EU "has taken itself out of the negotiation process and is preventing the Trump administration from negotiating." However, the Kremlin head allowed the Europeans to participate in the negotiations if they "return to the ground of reality, based on the situation on the ground, as they say in such cases."
- They (Europeans. - Editor's note) are offended that they were sort of removed from the negotiations, but I want to note that no one removed them, they removed themselves. We were in close contact for a while, and then they suddenly broke off contact with us. And abruptly cut off contacts with Russia," Putin said.
He called the AFU attacks on tankers of the Russian "shadow fleet" "piracy" and promised to respond by "expanding the range of such strikes on port facilities and on ships and vessels that enter Ukrainian ports."
The most radical way is to cut Ukraine off from the sea. Then it will be impossible for it to engage in piracy in principle," the politician threatened, adding that Russia is acting in Ukraine "in a surgical way, carefully" and "this is not a war in the direct, modern sense of the word.