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'Can't get away with making threats': Putin likens US behaviour to Soviet Union

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Jun 05, 2021 06:01 PM IST

Empires think they are powerful enough to make some mistakes, said Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding that such behaviour reminded him of the Soviet Union.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the United States was wrong to think that it is "powerful enough" to get away with threatening other countries, a mistake, he said, that led to the downfall of the former Soviet Union.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said US' behaviour reminded him of the Soviet Union. (File Photo)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said US' behaviour reminded him of the Soviet Union. (File Photo)

Putin made the comments during a press briefing late on Friday as he spoke about US sanctions against Moscow, according to Russia's news agency TASS.

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He was speaking just days before a meeting with US President Joe Biden whose cabinet in April imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia, including curbs to its sovereign debt market.

"We hear threats from the Congress, from other sources. It is all done within the context of the United States' domestic political process," Putin was quoted as saying.

"The people who do this, they probably assume that the United States has such economic, military and political might that it can get away with that. It is no big deal, that is what they think."

Putin said such behaviour reminded him of the Soviet Union.

"The problem with empires is that they think they are powerful enough to make some mistakes. We will buy these (people), bully them, make a deal with them, give necklaces to them, threaten them with battleships. And this will solve all the problems. But problems accumulate. A moment comes when they cannot be solved anymore."

Biden and Putin will meet in Geneva on June 16, the White House and the Kremlin have said, to discuss "the full range of pressing issues", according to Washington.

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