Most of us don't like or particularly trust Vlad Putin and for good reason. That's why it's easy to dismiss some of his taunts, complaints and even threats. There's another Russian, however, whose credibility is much better, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the opinions he gave BBC about Russia's relations with the West are pretty dismal:
"We lost 15 years after the end of the Cold War, but the West I think and particularly the United States, our American friends, were dizzy with their success, with the success of their game that they were playing, a new empire.
"I don't understand why you, the British, did not tell them, 'Don't think about empire, we know about empires, we know that all empires break up in the end, so why start again to create a new mess.'"
He added that the war with Iraq had damaged Britain's relationship with Russia after a promising start.
"Tony Blair and Putin established a very good relationship and that made it possible to advance our relationship," he said.
"But then Iraq happened and Tony found himself in the embrace of that military monster, of that war situation, and he lost a lot of his credibility in the world and in Europe."
2 comments:
When you mention Gorbachev's chat with BBC, are you talking about an interview on 30th of September 2004?
"Most of us don't like or particularly trust Vlad Putin"
speak for yourself, we trust and like V. Putin, hes a hell of a lot more honest than anything we have,,,
you and people like you are the reason we have problems in this world, you look at things in a western way, if its not like us it must be bad, just like moron bush, poodle blair and their harpy
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