Profound misunderstanding of who putin is and what he wants and i can speak with some authority on this because for quite a long time ive made putin and his leadership a special topic of my study putin came to power in 2000. In a country that had been ruined by the worst peacetime depression in history russia was in an economic ruin nation and putins mission and he spoke about this often was to preside over russias recovery at home. A men were dying of 57 years old at that time larry you and i would be pushing the daisies by now to the store to russia at home a lifestyle a a stability that had been lost in the 1990 s. And thereby reposition russia its true as a great power which has always been on the world stage that is been put in its mission to achieve that mission he has said repeatedly he wants and i use his words modernizing partnerships with the west he wants a stable west that is trading with russia 1st and foremost he has in mind europe because putin is a european man in europ
Was in an economic ruin nation and putins mission and he spoke about this often was to preside over russias recovery at home a men were dying of 57 years old at that time larry you and i would be pushing the daisies by now to restore to russia at home a lifestyle a a stability that had been lost in the 1990 s. And thereby reposition russia its true as a great power which has always been on the world stage that is been put in its mission to achieve that mission he has said repeatedly he wants and i use his words modernizing partnerships with the west he wants a stable west that is trading with russia. 1st and foremost he has in mind europe because putin is a european man in europe particularly germany has enormous trade with russia but he also had in mind the United States therefore instability in american russian relations the accusations that putin is attacking america which is Utter Nonsense this is an authentic role its the opposite of how putin sees his own mission and its been a s
And in the newspapers there is this belief among the people who care about american russian relations that all this grief and all these charges against trump originated because he wanted to cooperate with russia in other words that these it originated with the enemies of what our generation larry used to call detente there is substantial truth in that i dont think its the whole truth but thats the way its viewed in russia theres one other thing ill mention to you and then ill stop among young people. I mean people lets say 18 to 35 from my point of view thats young. Theres a disillusionment because these people many of them were very proamerican and they wanted russia to become more like america but now they read every day about allegations that our intelligence agencies have been off the reservation have been manipulating american politics have been doing bad things well they grew up in a system where thats what the russian intelligence agencies do so they had thought unlike in russia
Russian relations that all this grief and all these charges against trump originated because he wanted to cooperate with russia in other words that these it originated with the enemies of what our generation mary used to call detente there is substantial truth in that i dont think its the whole truth but thats the way its viewed in russia theres one other thing ill mention to you and then ill stop among young people i mean people that say 18 to 35 from my point of view thats young. Theres a disillusionment because these people many of whom were very proamerican they wanted russia to become more like america but now they read every day about allegations that our intelligence agencies have been off the reservation have been manipulating american politics have been doing bad things well they grew up in a system where thats what the russian intelligence agencies do so they had thought unlike in russia. Since agencies dont do that in america now theyre being told not by russia but by Americ