Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) – Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska said on Sunday that US President Joe Biden’s speech in Warsaw showed that some kind of “damn ideological mobilization” was under way that could lead to a coup d’état. . Deripaska, founder of the Russian aluminum giant Rusal (RUAL.MM), which has previously called for peace, said his personal opinion was that the conflict in Ukraine was “madness” that would bring shame to future generations. Deripaska, who has been sanctioned by the United States and Britain, did not explicitly claim responsibility for the conflict, but said both the United States and Russia had sharpened their rhetoric. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Deripaska said he hoped the conflict could have ended weeks ago, but that Biden’s speech – in which the US president spoke of a much wider conflict between democracy and totalitarianism – showed that it could last much longer. read more “Now some kind of hellish ideological mobilization is going on from all sides,” Deripaska told the Telegram. “That was it: these people are preparing to fight for a few more years.” “It seems that all sides are recklessly preparing for a long war that will have tragic consequences for the whole world.” The United States has imposed sanctions on Deripaska and other influential Russians in 2018 for saying they were benefiting from a Russian state involved in “malicious activity” around the world. The sanctions, an attempt to punish Moscow for allegedly meddling in the 2016 US election, were “unfounded, ridiculous and absurd,” Deripaska said at the time. Since the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Deripaska has been punished by Britain for his alleged ties to President Vladimir Putin. He said it would be up to the courts to decide the fate of the sanctions. Putin said Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine was necessary because the United States was using the country to threaten Russia and Moscow had to defend itself against the persecution of Russian-speakers by Ukraine. Ukraine has denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday stating “Similar, baseless allegations concerning Ukraine have been made more than once. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Guy Faulconbridge Edited by William Maclean and Frances Kerry Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
