Western countries, believing that such a large Russia is not needed, want to divide it and subordinate it. This was said by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” Rossiya-1 TV channel, TASS reports.
“The realities are as follows, later I was absolutely 100% convinced of this that after the collapse of the Soviet Union [Western politicians] believed that we had to tolerate a little, now we will expand Russia,” said Putin.
He added that such a rather large country by European standards – with the largest territory in the world and a rather large number of inhabitants in comparison with other European countries – is generally not needed. “It was better than her, as the famous politician in the United States proposed, [former adviser to US President Zbignev] Brzezinsky, to divide into five parts, and these units separately subjugate and use resources,” the president said.
Putin emphasized that these ideas were nominated, based on the fact that everything separately “would not have an independent weight, an independent voice and will not be able to defend their national interests as a single Russian state does.” “Only later this awareness came to me, and the initial approach, it was quite naive,” Putin said.
The President of the Russian Federation called the “Nonsense and Figure of Speech” the statements of the US leader Joe Biden that Moscow could supposedly attack NATO.
“This is complete nonsense. I think that President Biden understands this, this is just a figure of speech in order to justify his erroneous policy in the Russian direction,” Putin emphasized.
The Russian leader expressed confidence that Washington’s position is erroneous, because it is unlikely that the USA, taking into account the prospects of world development, is so interested as they thought 20 years ago and how they publicly declare, in the inflict of Russia’s strategic defeat. ” “I don’t think this is in the national interests of the United States itself,” the President of the Russian Federation said.
According to him, Washington will have to reckon with Moscow and find contact points.
“They will have to find the point of contact with us because they will have to reckon with us,” the president said.
The President of Russia warned that the Russian Federation, who had the best relations with Finland, the entry into the NATO of this country forced to concentrate military units in the Leningrad Military District.
“There were no problems. Now they will, because we will now create the Leningrad Military District and concentrate certain military units there,” Putin emphasized, speaking of the consequences of Finland’s entry into NATO.