‘Utter rubbish!’ Putin says ‘Russian threat’ is fake, invented by those trying to cash in on it

Dmitry Kostyukov

Europe knows that Russia isn’t going to attack them and won’t be paying Washington for protection anymore, Vladimir Putin said, urging the US to rethink its relations with NATO allies on the continent.

The US previously told the European nations that they were defending them from the Soviet Union and that they had to pay for it, Putin said from the stage of the “Russia Calling” investment forum in Moscow. But the USSR collapsed almost three decades ago and the US approach “doesn’t work” today.

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