Putin:

07.09.04, 05:17

"We showed weakness, and the weak are trampled upon. Some want to cut off a
juicy morsel from us while others are helping them.

"They are helping because they believe that, as one of the world's major
nuclear powers, Russia is still posing a threat to someone, and therefore
this threat must be removed.

"And terrorism is, of course, only a tool for achieving these goals."


news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3627878.stm


The president appealed to nostalgic Soviet patriots and Russia's ancient
sense of encirclement when he said the collapse of the USSR left the
country "without defences either to the east or west". He criticised the
mistakes of the security forces, saying: "We could have been more effective
if we had acted professionally and at the right moment."
He conjured up a frightening external threat, indirectly accusing the US of
supporting terrorists and trying to disarm Russia as a nuclear power and pull
territory away from it. "Some would like to cut a juicy piece of our pie.
Others help them," he said. "Terrorism is just one instrument they use."

www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,1298049,00.html

    • Gość: iti Re: Putin: IP: *.p.lodz.pl 07.09.04, 15:57
      It seems that Putin wants to make Russia strong..
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