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Vladimir Putin is ready to destroy the West with hypersonic nuclear weapons if it attempts to defeat and dismember Russia, his top security aide has warned.
Nikolai Patrushev demanded that Moscow must be allowed to dominate Europe after the supposed impending collapse of the EU.
The 71-year-old hardline ideologue - seen by some as the brains behind Putin's ill-conceived war in Ukraine - showed in an interview how conspiracy theories are rampant inside the Kremlin, as the seat of Russian power grows isolated.
'Some people in the West are already talking about revenge that would lead to a military victory over Russia,' he said.
Ignoring the fact that Putin ordered a brutal invasion of sovereign Ukraine last year, while frequently threatening full-scale world war, Patrushev claimed: 'Russia is patient and is not intimidating anyone with its military superiority.
Vladimir Putin is ready to destroy the West with hypersonic nuclear weapons if it attempts to defeat and dismember Russia, his top security aide has warned. Pictured: A test launch of Russia's Sarmat (Satan) missile is seen being carried out (file photo)
Top Putin ally Nikolai Patrushev (pictured, file image) demanded that Moscow must be allowed to dominate Europe after the supposed impending collapse of the EU
'However, it possesses unique modern weaponry capable of destroying any adversary including the US in case of a threat to its existence.'
His chilling threats included Putin's demand to dominate Europe.
The US currently 'does as it pleases in Europe ignoring the fact that the leading role on the continent has historically been Russia's', he told the Kremlin's mouthpiece newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
'The Russian empire's in the 19th century, the Soviet Union's in the 20th.
'That's how it will be in the 21st century as well.'
Patrushev, longtime secretary of Russia's security council, is seen to be plotting for his son Dmitry Patrushev, 45, now Putin's agriculture minister, to take over from the dictator as president if he is felled by ill-health or ousted due to war failures.
But the ex-FSB chief warned: 'Nato countries are a party to the [Ukraine] conflict. They have turned Ukraine into one big military camp...
'In trying to prolong this military confrontation as long as possible, they are not hiding their main goal - the defeat of Russia on the battlefield
