Putin: World Risks ‘Fight of All Against All’ in ‘Grim Dystopia’ Amid Growing Crises

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with university students via a video conference call at a state residence in Zavidovo, Russia, on Jan. 25, 2021. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via Reuters

Russian leader Vladimir Putin warned that society risks a return to world war if there’s no international effort to ease existing global tensions and imbalances.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s virtual Davos Agenda conference on Jan. 27, he offered a grim prediction and noted that the current era shows parallels to the 1920s and 1930s before the “catastrophic World War II.”