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US WISHES TO SUBDUE RUSSIA, BUT NO ONE WILL EVER MANAGE THIS -- PUTIN
Russia
November 18, 19:22 UTC+3
Vladimir Putin said the United States is not trying to humiliate
Russia, but to make it succumb to its influence
Russian President Vladimir Putin
(c) Mikhail Metzel/TASS
Putin: We are guided by interests rather than feelings in dealing
with our partners
MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS/. The United States wishes to make Russia
succumb to its influence, but no one has ever managed to achieve
this or ever will, President Vladimir Putin told the forum of the
All-Russia People's Front on Tuesday. He was speaking in reply to a
remark by film director Yuri Kara, who said that the United States
was trying to humiliate Russia.
"This is not so. The United States is not trying to humiliate us,
it wants to subdue us, to settle its own problems at our expense. To
make us succumb to its influence," Putin said.
"No one has ever managed to achieve this aim in relations with Russia
or ever will," he added to draw applause from the audience.
In the meantime, Putin said, the United States has been successful
in spreading its influence to its allies or "as some propagandists
would say, its satellite states."
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bound to last -- Lavrov As a result, Putin said with certainty,
many of the US allies have been forced to neglect their own interests
"to try to defend somebody else's - for obscure reasons and with very
hazy prospects."
"I sometimes feel utter confusion," Putin said. "Protection of the
so-called pan-European, Western influence to the detriment of one's
own national interests as a rule is fraught with several problems."
Firstly, Putin said, there are no criteria of these common interests.
Secondly, he explained, behind one is bound to find the geopolitical
interests of one country or a group of countries which do not
necessarily agree with the interests of their own peoples.
Putin believes that nobody in the world, including the masses of the
US population would like to see soaring world tensions.
Putin also said most of Russians like the American people and America
but disapprove of the policy of its authorities.
"I think that our people rather like than dislike America and the
American people. But most likely, the majority of our citizens have
negative attitude towards the policy of the /US/ ruling class,"
he said at a question and answer session.
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/760394
Russia
November 18, 19:22 UTC+3
Vladimir Putin said the United States is not trying to humiliate
Russia, but to make it succumb to its influence
Russian President Vladimir Putin
(c) Mikhail Metzel/TASS
Putin: We are guided by interests rather than feelings in dealing
with our partners
MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS/. The United States wishes to make Russia
succumb to its influence, but no one has ever managed to achieve
this or ever will, President Vladimir Putin told the forum of the
All-Russia People's Front on Tuesday. He was speaking in reply to a
remark by film director Yuri Kara, who said that the United States
was trying to humiliate Russia.
"This is not so. The United States is not trying to humiliate us,
it wants to subdue us, to settle its own problems at our expense. To
make us succumb to its influence," Putin said.
"No one has ever managed to achieve this aim in relations with Russia
or ever will," he added to draw applause from the audience.
In the meantime, Putin said, the United States has been successful
in spreading its influence to its allies or "as some propagandists
would say, its satellite states."
READ ALSO
Putin: new serious conflicts involving world powers possible Unipolar
model of the world failed -- Putin Cooldown in Russia-US relations
bound to last -- Lavrov As a result, Putin said with certainty,
many of the US allies have been forced to neglect their own interests
"to try to defend somebody else's - for obscure reasons and with very
hazy prospects."
"I sometimes feel utter confusion," Putin said. "Protection of the
so-called pan-European, Western influence to the detriment of one's
own national interests as a rule is fraught with several problems."
Firstly, Putin said, there are no criteria of these common interests.
Secondly, he explained, behind one is bound to find the geopolitical
interests of one country or a group of countries which do not
necessarily agree with the interests of their own peoples.
Putin believes that nobody in the world, including the masses of the
US population would like to see soaring world tensions.
Putin also said most of Russians like the American people and America
but disapprove of the policy of its authorities.
"I think that our people rather like than dislike America and the
American people. But most likely, the majority of our citizens have
negative attitude towards the policy of the /US/ ruling class,"
he said at a question and answer session.
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/760394