SOCHI, November 8. /TASS/. Chaos and systemic crisis are intensifying in Western countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a plenary session of the Valdai Debate Club.

According to Putin, the policy of the United States and its allies is increasingly characterized by the dangerous principle of “you are either with us or against us.”

“Chaos and systemic crisis are already intensifying in countries trying to implement this policy,” he said.

According to the president, this “pretension of exclusivity, liberal-globalist messianism, ideological and political-military monopoly” makes these countries wither, while pushing the entire world towards deterioration.

Such principles are in clear contradiction with the genuine interests of the United States and European states, Putin said.

“Sooner or later the West will realize this, because its former great achievements were always based on a pragmatic and sober approach based on a very harsh, sometimes cynical, but rational assessment of what is happening and its own capabilities” , he continued. say.