Putin Says West Playing 'Dangerous, Bloody Game'

In a foreign policy speech Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Western nations of trying to dominate the world, saying the coming decade will be one of the most dangerous since the end of World War II.

In a lengthy speech in Moscow during the opening session of Valdai Discussion Club's annual foreign affairs forum, Putin characterized the West as aggressively, desperately seeking to "single-handedly govern humanity." He said people of the world no longer want to put up with it.

He said the West is playing a dangerous, bloody and dirty game, and blamed Western aggression for, in his words, "the incitement of war in Ukraine ... provocations around Taiwan, the destabilization of the global food and energy markets," and the destruction of the European gas pipelines.