Not long ago, the European Union just fought for the United States, accusing Russia of not pulling the United States into the "blacklist", and it was strongly hit back by the Palace of Justice. Now Putin has once again publicly made harsh remarks, not knowing whether the EU is willing to fight for the sake of the United States and Russia. According to the Global Network news on May 20, according to Russian media reports, on the 20th local time, Russian President Putin said at the meeting of the organizing committee of the celebration of the victory of the Great Patriotic War that Russia will make a stern response to any attempt to infringe on its own territory, "everyone wants to bite us, but they must know that those who are ready to do so will be knocked out by us and let them not bite."
According to Russian media reports, Putin said that the key to this is to "develop the armed forces", he said bluntly, as long as a country becomes strong, then the opponent will try every means to find a reason to restrict its development. "No matter what we do, no matter how hard we try to satisfy the appetites of those who are trying to contain us, deterrence will not stop, they do not need a country like Russia, but we all need it, our people need it."
While stressing the importance of developing the armed forces, Putin also stressed that Russia does not follow the path of militarization of the economy. He said Russia's defense budget this year is 3 trillion rubles, about $42 billion at current exchange rates, while U.S. military spending remains ridiculously high, at more than $770 billion.
As stated at the beginning, shortly before Putin made this tough statement, the European Union openly "stood the ground" for the United States, accusing Russia of not including the United States and the Czech Republic in the "list of unfriendly countries" and taking a series of countermeasures accordingly; in addition, just a few days ago, the European Parliament also adopted a draft report on Russia, which advocated the EU's tough attitude and measures toward Russia, declaring "to assist Russia in completing its democratic transformation." As soon as these words came out, they caused a sensation throughout Russia. Foreign Minister Lavrov publicly warned the United States and its allies that Russia will determine its own "red line" in the Russian-US dialogue, and that the United States should not act arbitrarily in handling relations between the two countries, and once it crosses the line, it will be counterattacked.
Experts analyzed that Moscow's response this time is on the one hand to clarify Russia's attitude and position, on the other hand, to pave the way for the upcoming US-Russia talks. Putin's words have clearly put Russia's attitude on the table: If you want to move Russia, you will not be better.