Vladimir Putin Quotes About Nato

Quotes about: Nato

• There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Gone, Occupation

  Source: russialist.org

• NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Usa, Victory

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our own backyard; in our historic territory. I simply cannot imagine that we would travel to Sevastopol to visit NATO sailors. Of course, most of them are wonderful guys, but it would be better to have them come and visit us, be our guests, rather than the other way round.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Military, Home

• Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Europe, Enemy

• I have heard this a thousand times. Of course every state has the right to organize its security the way it deems appropriate. But the states that were already in NATO, the member states, could also have followed their own interests - and abstained from an expansion to the east.

  Vladimir Putin

  Way, Expansion, East

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was a military intervention of the West and NATO against the then rump Yugoslavia.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Military, Yugoslavia

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Political Will, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!

  Vladimir Putin

  Moving, Sea, Russia

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• [Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Expansion, Moscow

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• The US tactical nuclear weapons are in Europe, let us not forget this. Does it mean that the US has occupied Germany or that the US never stopped the occupation after World War II and only transformed the occupation troops into the NATO forces?

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Mean, Europe

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

• Back in 2007, many people criticized me for my talk at the Munich Security Conference. But what did I say there? I merely pointed out that the former NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner had guaranteed that NATO would not expand eastwards after the fall of the Wall.

  Vladimir Putin

  Wall, Fall, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• It is a fact that the US defence budget is larger than the defence budgets of all other countries taken together. This is why I understand the US President when he says that his NATO allies should take over part of this burden. It is a pragmatic and understandable approach.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Taken, President

  Source: en.kremlin.ru

• Now they [NATO and the USA ] are sitting there, and we are talking about all these crises we would otherwise not have. You can also see this striving for an absolute triumph in the American missile defense plans.

  Vladimir Putin

  Talking, Usa, Triumph

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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