17.12.2023, Moscow.
In the 2000s, he considered the West’s inclination to confront Russia as an inertia of thinking, President Putin said in an interview with the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” of the Russia 1 TV channel.
The president admitted that he had the naive notion that the civilized world understood what had happened to Russia and that it had become a different country. Ideological confrontation was supposed to be a matter of the past.
As head of the FSB and seeing the West’s support for separatism and terrorism in Russia, Putin believed that this was due to inertia of thought and action. Certain groups in the Western intelligence services, media, political elite and society were accustomed to fighting the Soviet Union and acted in the same way. According to the president, they thought so in the 2000s out of naivety.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
