PUTIN SPEECH USES AMERICAN DIVIDE TO SEARCH FOR U.S. SUPPORT – “There are at least two Wests, One is a West of “traditional, mainly Christian values” for which Russians feel kinship. But, there’s another West — aggressive, cosmopolitan, neocolonial, acting as the weapon of the neoliberal elite,” said Vladimir Putin in a speech aimed at exploiting the real divide in America between the “left” and the “right”.
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Putin seizes on divisions in West – Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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President Vladimir Putin declared Thursday that Russia’s battle was with “Western elites,” not with the West itself, in a speech seemingly aimed more at winning over political conservatives abroad than his own citizens….
Putin, as he often does, portrayed Russia as threatened by the possible expansion of NATO — and the values of its liberal democracies — to countries like Ukraine that were once part of the Soviet Union.
