Vladimir Putin has branded the West as ‘halfwits’ who will fail to defeat Russia.

‌He labelled his ‘enemies’ as ‘neo-colonialists’ for their support of Ukraine, ignoring his own imperialistic bid to invade and subjugate the country costing hundreds of thousands of lives.

‌The Kremlin dictator – looking hunched and pale – claimed Russia’s multinationalism was its strength.

‌In a deranged speech at the Council for Interethnic Relations, he said: ‘Our state was built around the values of multinational harmony…

Putin referred to his enemies as ‘half-wits’ who would fail to defeat Russia

‌’Our enemies….people with neo-colonial thinking, half-wits really – do not understand that this diversity makes us stronger.

‌’In vain they count on the effect for which they are trying.

‌’Well, I already said that people who are guided by their neo-colonial ideas are half-wits.

‌’And in the competition of halfwits, they would take second place.

‌’Why only second? Yes, because they are halfwits.’‌

He waited for his loyalists to laugh at his supposed joke but it appeared only his deputy chief of staff Sergey Kiriyenko found it in any way funny.‌

Putin claimed the more sanctions were imposed on Russia, the more consolidated people would become behind him.‌

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He claimed 90 per cent of society now backed him.

Contradicting himself, he demanded yet more cohesion.‌

‘[My opponents] say that Russia should be divided into dozens of small state entities and it is quite obvious what for,’ he said.

‘In order to later bend them to their will, exploit, use in their selfish interests. They have no other goals.’

He reportedly travelled to Pyatigorsk in the Caucasus for the council session but then addressed an audience substantially online – his trademark method of communicating with his functionaries.

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Putin’s jokes are about as funny as you’d expect.