The US media doesn’t show the entire message from Putin, found on the Kremlin’s website, Kremlin.ru, which I have pasted below. You can read it yourself, it’s short.

Russia can wipe out the US in an hour. This is why I wasn’t going to vote for Biden before or Harris now. This might be why no one will be voting for any President this November. There has never been a more dangerous moment in the world than right now.

Answer to the question of the media representative

At the end of his speech at the plenary session of the United Cultures Forum, Vladimir Putin answered the question of the media representative.

September 12, 2024 

18:55 

St. Petersburg

Question: In recent days, we have seen and heard how the topic is being discussed at a very high level of Great Britain and the United States that the Kiev regime will be able to strike deep into the territory of Russia with long-range Western weapons. And, apparently, this decision is either about to be made, or, apparently, has already been made at all. This is an extraordinary thing, of course. I wanted to ask you to comment on what is happening.

V. Putin: There is an attempt to substitute concepts. Because we are not talking about allowing or prohibiting the Kiev regime from striking Russian territory. He already applies with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles and other means. But when it comes to the use of Western-made high-precision long-range weapons, it’s a completely different story.

The fact is that – I have already mentioned this, and any experts will confirm it both here and in the West – the Ukrainian army is not able to strike with modern high-precision long-range systems of Western production. She can’t do it. This is possible only with the use of intelligence from satellites, which Ukraine does not have, this is data only from satellites or the European Union, or the United States – in general, from NATO satellites. This is the first one.

The second and very important, perhaps the key, is that only NATO military personnel can, in fact, make flight missions to these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen can’t do that.

Therefore, it is not about allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not. It is about deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not.

If this decision is made, it will mean nothing more than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, European countries in the war in Ukraine. This is their direct participation, and this, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict.

This will mean that NATO countries, the United States, European countries are at war with Russia. And if so, then, bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be created for us.