US Fuels Middle East Chaos, Undermines Gaza Peace Efforts: Putin

“They don’t need lasting peace in the Holy Land, they need constant chaos in the Middle East, so they do their best to discredit those countries that insist on an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, <…> and are ready to contribute to resolving the crisis. Even the UN, which clearly expressed position of the world community, is subject to attacks, real persecution, and attempts to discredit it," Putin said at the meeting.

“The US as a world superpower — everyone sees this, understands it even from trends in the global economy — is weakening, losing its position. The American world, with one hegemon, is being destroyed, gradually but steadily becoming a thing of the past. But the [United] States do not want to put up with this, but on the contrary, they want to maintain and extend their dominance, their global dictatorship,” Putin said.

"<…> the attempts to use the dramatic situation in the Middle East and other regional conflicts <…> against Russia, to destabilize and split out multinational and multireligious society. As we see, a wide range of means is used for that purpose - perfect provocations and sophisticated technologies of psychological and information aggression", Putin added.

<…> I repeat, those who are behind the conflict in the Middle East as well as other regional crises will use their devastating consequences to incite hatred and push people against each other all over the world. This is the true and selfish goal of such geopolitical puppeteers," Putin explained

"When you look at bleeding children, at dead children, at suffering women and elderly people, at dying doctors, of course, your hands are balled into fists and tears well up in your eyes. There is no other way to say it. But we must not, we have no right <…> to be driven by emotions," Putin said.