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Kizzume
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 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject: Putin: U.S. mars Russia's image and rejects friendship |
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| Quote: | "I believe ... this is a single-minded attempt to create a certain image of Russia which allows (Washington) to influence our internal and external policy," Putin said in the interview posted on the Kremlin's official site www.kremlin.ru.
"Russia hasn't only said but also repeatedly demonstrated by its entire policy in the last 15 years that we do not only want to be America's partner, but a friend as well," he said.
"But sometimes I have the impression that America does not need friends. We have the impression that America needs vassals to command."
He said the United States was trying to "seek problems inside Russia all the time".
"That's why they tell us and all the others, 'Well, let's pinch and reproach them a bit, because they (Russians) are not quite civilized, they are still wild, they have just jumped off a tree. This is why we must comb their hair a bit -- they cannot do it themselves -- and shave them and wash off their mud'." |
| Quote: | Putin said Russia must get rid of the legacy of its Soviet-era history when the Soviet Union tried to lead a universal communist revolution.
"This was a great mistake," he said. "We don't want to rule anyone, we don't want to be a superpower of any kind. ... But we want to have enough forces to be able to defend ourselves, to protect our interests."
Putin, who worked for the Soviet-era KGB security service, praised ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and late president Boris Yeltsin for helping dismantle the communist system.
Asked to explain earlier statements that the demise of the Soviet Union was "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century", Putin replied: "I meant not the political aspect of the Soviet Union's break-up, but the humanitarian one." |
I certainly hope that at some point, the United States is going to take a non-superpower stance on things. It may be economic factors that bring us to that point, unfortunately, but it'd sure be nice is we'd decide that on our own. Too many people in the U.S. believe that we need to be the world's nanny, and I just don't understand it.
I hope Russia continues to get better. I hope they can curb their corruption.
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