Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday delivered some rare, wide-ranging and frank commentary on the US-Israeli war against Iran.

He compared the war and the Hormuz Strait closure, and subsequent impact on global energy, to the massive widescale impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he also stated that outcomes to the war are at this point too hard to predict.

The conflict, Putin explained, is now resulting in significant damage to international logistics, production and supply chains while putting intense pressure on hydrocarbon, metals and fertilizer companies – according to a translation in Reuters. “However, there are already estimates that they can be compared with the coronavirus epidemic,” Putin said. “Let me remind you that it has dramatically slowed down the development of all regions and continents, without exception.”

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