The right to know! (№ 420297)

President Putin shared some historical knowledge (in a conversation with the editors of the news agency) about the forms of imperial existence. He said that, as a citizen of the Soviet Union, he knows for sure that at some point in imperial life, the confidence arises that all problems are solved, and very quickly either by purchase or by threat. But it turns out that there are so many of these problems that it was an illusion that they are being solved. And we remember this from the Soviet Union. And President Putin said such a tough thing. America is fully in this phase of its historical and imperial development, and that the number of America's problems exceeds the possibilities of the standard solutions to which the empire is accustomed.