Peskov: The United States can hardly explain the need to “suppress Putin”

Western leaders want to suppress Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but they have difficulty explaining why this is necessary. This statement was made by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.

“This is not a new idea. This and [президент США Джо] Biden has made such statements, and so have European leaders. They all want to suppress Russia, they all want to suppress Putin. They can hardly explain why they should do this. They can hardly explain the effectiveness of their efforts in this direction so far,” he said.

At the same time, “sooner or later” Western politicians will have to explain themselves to taxpayers, since “they are wasting their money,” Peskov expressed confidence. The Kremlin representative emphasized that the West “has not succeeded so far and will not succeed in the future either.”

On October 16, US President Joe Biden, in an interview with CBS, hypothetically introduced, what will happen if we “unite all of Europe” and “suppress” Putin so that he “cannot create the problems that he creates.” “We have enormous opportunities, enormous opportunities to make this world a better place,” the American leader emphasized.

At a plenary session of the Valdai Forum, Putin said that the United States and its satellites had set a course for hegemony from the very beginning, but Russia even then understood that such attempts were doomed to failure. According to him, Washington “in a boorish manner” is telling other countries how to behave. The Russian leader noted that the United States is replacing international law with an order based on “certain rules.”

In an interview with China Media Corporation, Putin stated about US colonial thinking. According to him, Washington continues to talk “about its exclusivity,” which is a vestige of colonialism.