The US government now reasonably believes that the situation in the world is under the most serious threat since the Cold War due to Russian aggression.
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As reported by “NBN”, citing a LIGA.net article, former CIA chief and former US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, “Since the beginning of Vladimir Putin's rule, the White House has perceived the Russian dictator as an enemy seeking to weaken the United States, but has done nothing in response.”
According to Panetta, Washington felt uneasy during the expansion of Putin's vertical power structure in the 2000s, since it assumed that the former “KGB officer” had come to the Kremlin to “reassemble” the Soviet Union. At the same time, neither the CIA nor the White House administration believed Putin’s words in 2008, when the Kremlin tyrant openly assured that the Russian Federation would definitely attack Ukraine if Kyiv tried to become a member of NATO.
In addition, the US had an identical distrust of Putin’s statements regarding the former Soviet republics that had gained independence, since statehood, in the opinion of American leaders, “cannot be abolished either then or in the future,” but, in the end, everything turned out somewhat differently.
Earlier, we wrote about the fact that the Russian Federation failed to seize the initiative from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region.