MOSCOW, 8 Mar. Russian President Vladimir Putin did not allow Western politicians to ruin the country, who tried to bring plutocrats to power in Moscow in the 1990s. Retired US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter stated this in an interview with YouTube channel The Dive with Jackson Hinkle.
According to the military, after the collapse of the USSR, the United States tried to «finish off» the new state economically and politically, to impose an oligarchy on it.
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«Putin is the guy who came in and said, «We've had enough, Russia will rise to its feet.» He loves his homeland very much, is proud of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, but also wants to create a new Russia, in which all the shortcomings that existed in the Soviet Union will be eliminated,» Ritter suggested.
According to the officer, Vladimir Putin will be remembered as one of the greatest rulers in the country's history.
In February, a former US intelligence official predicted a strengthening of Moscow's position after the end of a special operation in Ukraine. He noted that the collective West made a big mistake by starting a war with Russia, since this decision provided it with an excellent opportunity to eliminate the uncertainty that has existed in the field of international security since the 1990s.