Vladimir Putin has relented in his latest controversy with the American journalist Tucker Carlson previously unknown details about it a conversation what he had with the then President of the United States Bill Clinton in the year 2000.
According to the Russian President, the former US President indicated the possibility that Russia joined as Full member of NATO. “At a meeting here at the Kremlin with outgoing President Bill Clinton, right here in the next room, I said to him and asked him, ‘Bill, do you think it would happen if Russia asked to join NATO?’ ?’ He said: “You know, it’s interesting. I think so'”the Russian president replied to the interviewer.
On the same day, but a little later, Clinton would have done it radically changed from Opinion, and then denied the possibility that the country could become part of the Atlantic Alliance. “But that evening when we met for dinner he said, ‘You know, I talked to my team, no, that’s not possible now.'”
The Kremlin leader stated that after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia I hoped to be welcomed into the international community and they felt betrayed since, in his opinion, NATO expanded to the east despite their promises to the contrary. They expected, he noted, a welcome into the “brotherly family of civilized nations.” None of this happened, they deceived us“.
In his first interview with Western media since the invasion of Ukraine, he also noted that his country was affected by the crisis bombed by US forces and des NATO in the past, a circumstance which he said contributed to this deterioration of Relationships with the rest west.
Putin criticized that Lack of diplomatic efforts Western governments to move closer to Russia. In this sense, he suggested that if Clinton had accepted Russia’s entry into NATO at the time, the The current situation would have been different. “The rapprochement process would have begun.”
Likewise, the Russian President has defended and expressed that the country he now governs has a market economy and the Communist Party has no power Willingness to negotiate with other countries Improving international and commercial relations.
The reactions didn’t take long to arrive. The EU described the Russian President’s statements during the interview as “Dangerous old lies” with which he tries Justify the military invasion of Ukraine.