Russian President Vladimir Putin, seeking to rally anti-American sentiment in Europe and across the world, lashed out anew at the United States on Friday, calling it a fading power that treats its allies as colonies, and said the West was falsely blaming its economic woes on the war in Ukraine.
¡°We all hear about so-called Putin inflation in the West,¡± Putin said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, an annual business conference once known as ¡°Russia¡¯s Davos,¡± seeming to refer to U.S. President Joe Biden¡¯s efforts to blame Russian aggression for what he calls a ¡°Putin price hike¡± that is hurting American consumers.
¡°When I see this, I always think: Who¡¯s this meant for, this stupidity?¡± Putin said. ¡°For someone who doesn¡¯t know how to read or write.¡±
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