Putin: I was naive about the West

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Pavel Zarubin “, a Russian journalist said that his opinion that he thought the West would establish constructive relations with Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union was wrong and that he was “simple-minded” in this regard.

Putin said in an interview: In fact, the goal of Western policy is to divide Russia, while he thought that the West knows that Moscow has become a completely different country after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and that the ideological differences between the two countries have disappeared.

He said: Even when he witnessed the efforts of the West in supporting separatism and terrorism in Russia two decades ago, he thought that “slack thinking” was to blame for these policies and the problem is that “they are trying to confront the Soviet Union.” They are used to it.”

In a part of this interview, the President of Russia noted: “After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Westerners thought that they needed to wait just a little longer and they could continue to cause Russia to collapse and disintegrate as well. “

He emphasized: “According to what [Zybigniew] Brzezinski (former US National Security Adviser) suggested, Russia would be better divided into five parts and then each of them would be surrendered one by one. The President of Russia explained that the above thinking was based on the fact that the division of Russia into smaller countries will cause them to “not have a voice of their own and not be able to defend their national interests like a united Russia.” /p>

The Russian president’s reference is likely to a 1997 article by Brzezinski in which he suggested that Moscow “should abandon futile efforts to regain its position as a world power.”

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