MOSCOW, 4 Jun. Western elites cannot forgive Russian President Vladimir Putin for not allowing the country to be plundered, former MI6 spy Alastair Crook said on YouTube channel Judge Napolitano.
«During the Yeltsin era, America thought that Russia is already in its hands. The guys from Harvard went there and bought up and looted most of the resources. That was until 1999. And then Putin came in and gradually ended it. And I think (44th President of the United States Barack. — Approx. ed.) Obama could not forgive him for this,” Crook said. country.
He also recalled that Putin «restrained» the presumptuous oligarchs and returned the mineral deposits and other resources and wealth of Russia to state ownership.