Note by Fazal Rahman
Classist, racist, inter-capitalist and inter-imperialist conflicts and wars have been the norms in human history, including the two world wars. US and Europe consider capitalist Russia and China even greater threats to their economic and military hegemony than under socialism. That should have been obvious to any rational and objective observer of history. Putin’s earlier illusions were the result of his wishful thinking, formed on the basis of betrayal of socialism and having become a beneficiary of restoration of capitalism. Will he ever face up to these fundamental contradictions in his career?
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that in the early 2000s, he had a naive idea that the world has changed, there is no ideological confrontation, and no grounds for conflict between the West and Russia.
“I had a naive idea that the whole world and especially the so-called, now I say with absolute conviction, the so-called civilized [world] understands what happened to Russia, that it has become a completely different country, that there is no ideological confrontation anymore, which means there is no basis for confrontation,” Putin said.
He added that he saw negative actions in the policies of Western countries towards Russia, in particular, support for separatism and terrorism on Russia’s territory, but believed that this was “simply the inertia of thinking and action.”
“But the reality is, later I became 100% convinced of this, that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they [in the West] thought that they had to be patient – and would collapse Russia too,” Putin said.
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