from an economic point of view, it’s good, but apparently there were forces that - well, they were quite rightly conservative, nationalistic, who didn’t really like it, such a rapprochement with russia, mm, some even thought that it was excessive, that it was the russians who were buying houses there, they buy apartments, and here everything around us is in russian, uh, well, at the everyday level. i don’t even just think, i know about this level, this level of russophobia began to grow, maybe some political forces within the country decided to take advantage of this kind of tilt everyday, maybe the whole combination of these factors led to this decision, it seems to me so, but i am 100% affirmative.

absolutely, without improving the situation in any way from the point of view of security and in bilateral relations, and in europe as a whole, well , i can’t, in any case, there is definitely an active presidential election race going on in the united states, yeah, and they can’t do it without you , you invisibly participate in it, since you are mentioned by each of...

nothing changes, first, second, we do not interfere in any way in any elections, and like me i have said many times that we will work with any leader who is trusted by the american people, the american voter. well , what’s curious is that even in the last year of his work as president, mr. trump, today’s presidential candidate, reproached me for precisely the fact that i sympathize...

it was more than four years ago, he told me so in one of the conversations, you want him to win, excuse me, i’ll say like him, it’s just direct speech, so that sleeping joe wins, he told me said so when was president, and then, to my surprise , they began to persecute him for the fact that we allegedly supported him there as a candidate, well , some complete nonsense. as for today 's pre-election situation, it is becoming more and more uncivilized in nature, i would not like to give any comments on this matter, but absolutely, i think this is obvious to everyone, the american political system cannot claim to be democratic in every sense of it.

the story that he came to the russian white the house to prime minister putin tried in every possible way to dissuade him from running for president , otherwise we will have an arab spring here, that is, biden , as it were, did not really like you, so to speak, in general, even then you had such a historical duel with him, to be honest, or you just already have it , to be honest, somehow you didn’t really pay attention to it. in our political

internal political process, and we have already said many times, and i have said many times, we will not allow anyone to do this, well, okay, so to speak, if we avoid interference election battles, in fact the escalation continues, and it seems that both superpowers russia and the united states are playing what in america is called chikin. this is when chickens rush at each other and jump on each other, and there it’s a game when guys in cars fly into each other’s heads - whoever swerves first, it looks like no one is going to swerve first - so a collision is inevitable, why? well

, the usa announced that they are not going to withdraw troops, which means we know what american troops are like in russia territories. therefore, therefore, i don’t think that everything here is rushing so head-on, but, but we are ready for this, i have said many times, for us this is a matter of life and death, and for them, for them it is a matter of improving their tactical

position as a whole in the situation in the world, well in europe in particular, maintaining one’s status, one’s status among one’s allies, is also important, but not as much as it is for us. it’s interesting, you said that we are ready for this, but the philosopher alexander dugin calls directly, he is an expert in geopolitics, he calls directly and practically prepare for a nuclear war, and the better we are prepared for it, the less likely this will happen.

is more modern than any other triad, and we only have such triads before the americans, in fact, and we have advanced much more here, we have it more modern, the entire nuclear component, in general in terms of carriers and in terms of charges we are approximately parity, but ours is more modern. everyone knows this, experts know everything, but this does not mean that we should measure ourselves by the number of warhead carriers, but we need to know about this, and those who needs it, i repeat, experts, specialists, the military, they

know this well, they are now setting the task of increasing this modernity for a visa, they have corresponding plans there, well, we also know about it. are developing all their components, so are we, but this does not mean that - in my opinion, they are not ready to start this nuclear war tomorrow, well, they want to, well, why do that, we are ready, but maybe, for greater persuasiveness in some time to conduct nuclear tests, after all , we don’t have international restrictions on this, but there is a treaty banning testing of this kind, but unfortunately, the united states did not ratify this treaty, so in order for parity to be observed here, we

withdrew this ratification, since the treaty was not ratified by the united states, it did not enter into legal force finally, because i didn’t type well... the united states is considering the possibility of conducting such tests, what is this connected with? is due to the fact that when new warheads appear, some experts believe that it is not enough to test them only on a computer, this means that they need to be tested in natural form, well, these are the ideas in certain circles in the usa, they are floating around , they have a place to be, we know about it, well, we are also looking, if they conduct such tests, i rule out that it is not necessary, we need it, we don’t need it, we still need to think, but i don’t rule out that we can do the same thing,

well, we are ready for this technically, yes we are always ready, i want it to be clear, this is, this is not, this not ordinary types of weapons, this is the type of military service that is in constant combat readiness, vladimir, well, after all... in difficult moments, i don’t know, last year at the front, in connection with kharkov or kherson, the thought of tactical nuclear weapons did not cross your mind, why? despite the fact that, at the proposal of the then command of this group, a decision was made on our part to withdraw troops from kherson, but this did not mean at all that our front there was falling apart, nothing. it wasn’t close, it was just done so as not to incur unnecessary losses among the superfluous

composition, that’s all, this was the most important motive, because in the conditions, in the conditions of combat operations, when it was impossible to fully supply the group located on the right bank, we would simply suffer unjustified losses of personnel, that’s why it was decided the decision to relocate to the left bank, and the correctness of this choice was confirmed by the fact that... the ukrainian command tried to make it as simple as throwing their people into a meat grinder in certain areas of the left bank in the same settlement that's it, they've been running around there lately, in the literal sense of the word, in the literal sense of the word, which means they tried to throw ammunition at them there , meaning high-speed boats and drones. well, what is it, well, it’s just for slaughter

, they were just sent for slaughter, i once asked the chief of the general staff, well , there’s nothing secret here, i say, listen, who do you think makes such decisions on the other side, after all, someone, the one who makes the decision, understands that people are sent to certain death. well who makes a decision why they are doing this , it’s pointless, pointless from a military point of view, i say, but what, well, i don’t know , probably the top political leadership there says, based on political considerations, that they have some kind of - a chance, that means, to break through our defenses, there is some chance to get additional money, referring to what they have there, which means - on the left bank, some kind of bridgehead, there is

some chance to beautifully present their position on international meetings, the team passed, everything lower-ranking commanders automatically hand them over further, by the way, the prisoners who were captured there and surrendered, they show that they didn’t even know. what situation do they find themselves in, and let’s say they send a new unit there, they say there is a stable defense there, let’s continue, help, they, they couldn’t even get to the left bank , it’s already a tragedy, natural from their point of view, absolutely, that’s why, why do we need to use means of mass destruction, there has never been such a need, that is such a thought never crossed your mind... no, why, but weapons exist in

order to use, we have our own principles, what do they say, that we are ready to use weapons, including any weapon, including and the one you mentioned, if we are talking about the existence of the russian state, damage to our sovereignty and independence. for us, everything is spelled out in our strategy; we haven’t changed it. and vladimirovich, when the outgoing president yeltsin invited you... to run for president, your first reaction was: i don’t ready, exactly, this is direct speech, since then you, of course, have gone through a very great evolution, if you had to write a telegram to yourself at that time, what text would be in

it? you see, it’s just like... the yankees at king arthur’s court or something like that, it’s impossible to answer this question, because the question was asked at that time in the historical and economic context in which the country was located, in that internal political and the situation from the point of view of internal security and so... all this together prompted me to answer that which i gave, i’m not ready for this, and not because i was scared of anything, but because the scale of the tasks was simply, well, huge and the number of problems grew every day like a snowball, so i said sincerely and

not because i’m repeating i was afraid of something because i i thought that i was not ready. in order to solve all these problems and god forbid they do something even worse, that ’s what we were talking about, and that’s why i said it absolutely sincerely, and if i came back, i would repeat the same thing, but so what then it became decisive, you still went, probably, conversations with '. nikolaevich, well, probably the most important thing in the end, he - he answered me then, said, okay, okay, okay, i understand, we ’ll come back to this, and we came back to this several times, in the end he said that i ’m an experienced person, i know what i’m doing, what i ’m offering, well, he told me a few other things

, probably, well, it’s inconvenient to praise myself, well , he said such positive words, and later he confirmed this again i won’t talk about it in such a positive way now talk and when the work went there everything was completely different there you know when you work there you think this is this this right now you need it now tomorrow it went there already when you get involved in the work

entering leningrad university was for you, this preparation a turning point for you before admission, this was the situation when you had to go to a-bank , realizing, either i’ll do it now , i’ll handle it, or then i’ll carry out the plans that i want, and you were already planning to work in the kgb, or i lost and so... yes, everything is different and there is no chance, and that russia is now also in a position where it is necessary to play in the bank, firstly, i didn’t have such a situation then, right, because yes,

i wanted to work in state security agencies and it was this admission, it was such a turning point. yes, it may have been a longer path to the goal that i set for myself, but it still existed, there is always an alternative, but you did it with tension, well, yes, of course, because i was studying. after all, at a school with a chemical and mathematical bias, but here i had to take humanitarian subjects, i had to leave one thing to do with the other,

well, yes, of course, there was tension, i had to learn the language on my own - foreigners in german, in this case i had to study history, literature there and so on, well , russia now too - it’s at a crossroads, either it turns out, or russia is not at a crossroads, but... it’s on the strategic path of its development and will not turn away from its path, to what extent do you feel the support of russian society, in its such new quality, after all, a new quality of russian society had emerged, it was there, it simply manifested itself. it is very good that we, that we have given the opportunity to this deep russian society to express itself, this, it seems to me

, is like this, i have a feeling that people have been waiting for this for a long time, that here is an ordinary person, he will be in demand by the country and the state and , the fate of the country depends on him. this feeling of an internal connection with the homeland, with the fatherland, of one’s importance in solving key problems, in this case in the field of security, it raised the the surface of this power of the russian and other peoples of russia, you are always fed from this, yes, the point is not that it feeds, someone subscribes, the point is that i see the request of society, this is the most important thing, to comply with the request. society, but it’s time to admit that you play a key role not only in russia, but in the world, because

billions of people pin their hopes on you for international justice, for the protection of human dignity, for the protection of traditional values, how it feels such a scale of responsibility?

state of affairs in international affairs, they have been accustomed for centuries to fill their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money, but they must understand that the vampire’s ball is ending, are you hinting at them, as you put it in your appeal to colonial habits, is that what you’re talking about? this is how everything happens, yes, this is how everything happens, but now you have painted a completely fair picture, when people see some kind of hope in russia, this is how it happened that western propaganda, with all its power, its colossal resources and tools, she could not pupate russia like that, isolate her, create a false image for her.

that this corresponds to their interests, because they want to have on their borders such a huge country as russia, the largest in the world in terms of territory, the largest in europe in terms of population, not such a large population in global terms, not comparable to china, not with india, but with the largest in europe in terms of population, and now the fifth in the world in terms of economic size, well, why do we need such

a competitor, they think that no, it’s better...

and in front of the growing capabilities of the armed forces of the russian federation, that’s when they began to think, well, those who are smarter began to think that it would be necessary to change some kind of strategy regarding the russian federation, that’s when the idea arose to resume the negotiation process, find some ways to end this conflict , look for - where are the real interests of russia, these are dangerous people, by the way, because - with people who are guided by such base principles, it’s easier to fight them, in our country remember how in russia they said how happiness for some is at this level, what

it consisted of, well-fed, drunk and but...