President Putin Says There Is No Middle Way Between Colonial Countries And Independent Countries, US Inquisitive?

President Russia Vladimir Putin. (Wikimedia Commons/Press Service of the President of Russia)

JAKARTA - Russian President Vladimir Putin said there was no middle ground between an independent state and a colony state, but did not specify which country he meant.

"The world is changing and it is changing rapidly. To claim some kind of leadership, especially global leadership, any country, any nation, any ethnic group needs to ensure its sovereignty", President Putin said at a meeting with young Russian businessmen. June.

"The reason is that there is no middle ground between being a sovereign state and a colony, no matter what you call a colony", President Putin stressed.

"If a country or a group of countries cannot make sovereign decisions, it means it is already a colony to some extent. Colonies historically have no future and have no chance of surviving tough geopolitical battles", he explained.

While President Putin did not name a specific country, he stressed that the geopolitical battle had been going on forever.

As previously reported, the Chairman of the Russian Duma wrote on his Telegram channel in early June that the United States leadership wants to make Ukraine its colony, extorting all resources from the country and using them to weaken Russia.

"The US had eight years to make Ukraine 'democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous, when after the coup American advisers and instructors actually controlled the Kyiv regime", he wrote.

"But instead of developing the country, Ukraine, which has great potential, was looted", said Volodin.

"No, Washington doesn't need an independent Ukraine. The US leadership wants to make it its colony. To squeeze all the resources out of that country and use them exclusively to weaken Russia", Volodin stressed.

According to Volodin, "the whole world has seen what democracy (the United States) has brought in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Yugoslavia."

"None of these countries, which Washington also wants to make democratic and prosperous, won. Quite the opposite. Once developing countries fell into chaos and destruction, their citizens faced a humanitarian catastrophe. For example, in Afghanistan, for two twenty years from living American troops more than 250,000 civilians died, the population became impoverished", criticized Volodin.