To reply to Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin dusted off a childish saying. “When we were kids when we were arguing, we used to say, ‘Whoever says it is a hundred times more than me,'” he commented after the US president nodded to a reporter’s question. Abc News asking him if he thought the Kremlin leader was a “killer”. And then he added: “I wish you health, without irony”.
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And health is the same topic ridden by the former Russian president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, now Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council: “I can only recall a quote from Doctor Freud. There is nothing more expensive in life than sickness and stupidity.”
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by our correspondent Federico Rampini
Putin’s reply
“It is not just a saying for children, a joke, there is a very deep psychological meaning in this. We always see our own qualities in the other and we think that he is like us. And based on this we judge his actions”, Putin pointed out, rattling off the crimes that the United States would have committed, from the massacres of indigenous peoples during the conquest of the American continent to slavery and the use of the atomic bomb up to today’s racism that gave birth to the African American movement of Black Lives Matter.
The future of US-Russia relations
Despite the crisis, Putin did not rule out continuing to collaborate with the United States, which, moreover, Biden himself had done. We can “walk and chew gum at the same time,” the US leader told theAbc, citing the renewal of the New Start treaty on nuclear disarmament as a positive example.
Putin echoed him: “The United States and its leadership base their relations with us on issues of interest to them and on their terms. They think we are the same, but we are not. We have a different genetic, cultural and moral code. but we know how to defend our interests. We will work with them, but on the fronts that interest us and under the conditions that we believe are advantageous for us “. And again: “They will have to take this into account, despite the fact that they do everything they can to block our development. Despite the sanctions and the offenses, they will have to take it into account”.
The call of the ambassador
Yesterday Moscow had recalled the Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov. “The important thing for us is to understand how it is possible to correct the Russian-American ties, so in difficulty, which were essentially led into a dead end by Washington. We would not want to allow irreparable degradation”, explained the Ministry of Foreign.
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