by Marco Imarisio, sent to Moscow
At one point, he made the quotation mark gesture with the fingers of both hands. Experts assure us that this is an absolute first. While he said he couldn’t rule out a fragmentation of Russia, even on an ethnic level, that would give life to so many different peoples as the “Muscovites” and the “Uralians,” the collective West would divide itself. “Because the only goal is to liquidate us.”
The short interview that Putin granted to the Moscow-Kremlin program on the second public channel is almost a footnote to his February 21 speech to the Federal Assembly on the occasion. “They have one goal, to dismantle the former Soviet Union and its main part, that is us. Then perhaps they will accept us into the so-called family of civilized peoples. But only in parts. And this in order to be able to command them at will and put them under their absolute control. This is a written plan that we knew about but never disclosed just because we hoped to establish acceptable relations with the West. But if it succeeds, our people as we know them may not survive a dissolution of the Russian Federation.”