Putin responded to Biden's insult
Russian President Vladimir Putin wished health to his American colleague Joe Biden in response to insults directed at him.
The head of state announced this while speaking at a meeting with representatives of the public in Crimea and Sevastopol, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Putin stressed that he wished Biden well without irony after his statements that the Russian leader is a “murderer.”
“As for the statements of my American colleague. We really, as he said, know each other personally. What would I answer him? I would tell him, “Be healthy.” I wish him good health. I say this without irony and without jokes,” Putin said.
The president also recalled pages from American history, accompanied by bloody wars and the extermination of the indigenous Indian population, as well as slavery and racial discrimination.
“If we speak more broadly on this topic, then in the history of every nation there are a lot of dramatic and bloody events. But when we evaluate other people, or when we evaluate even other states, other nations, we always look as if in a mirror. We always see ourselves there, because we always transfer onto another person what we ourselves breathe, what we ourselves essentially are.
And so, I remember, in childhood, when we argued with each other, we said this: “Whoever calls you what you call him is called that.” And this is no coincidence, this is not just a children's saying and joke - the meaning is very deep. We always see our own qualities in another person and think that he is the same as us. And based on this, we evaluate his actions and give an assessment in general.
As for the American establishment - not the American people as a whole, there are mainly a lot of honest, decent and sincere people who want to live in peace with us in peace - we know about this and value this, and we will rely on them in the future, but what As for the American establishment, the ruling class, its consciousness was formed in certain and rather difficult conditions.
After all, the development of the American continent by Europeans was associated with the extermination of the local population, with genocide, as they say today, direct genocide of Indian tribes. Then followed a very tough, large and difficult period of slavery, very cruel. And all this goes through history and accompanies the life of the United States to this day. Otherwise, where would the Black Lives Matter movement come from?
To this day, African Americans face injustice and extermination. Guided by such considerations, the ruling class solves both domestic and foreign policy problems. After all, the United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons, and against a non-attack state, against Japan. There was no military sense in this. This was a direct extermination of the civilian population,” said the Russian President.
He also emphasized that whether the US authorities want it or not, they will have to come to terms with Russian interests.
“We know how to defend our own interests. And we will work with them, but in those areas in which we ourselves are interested, and on the terms that we consider beneficial to ourselves. And they will have to reckon with it. They will have to reckon with this, despite all attempts to stop our development, despite sanctions and insults. They will have to reckon with this,” Putin concluded.
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