The statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson ruled out the possibility of Russia’s invasion of other countries after Ukraine, “do not inspire confidence” and “will not lull Warsaw’s vigilance,” said the Polish Vice Prime Minister. Vladyslav Kosinyak-Kamysh reacted on Friday, France Presse and Agerpres report.

In an interview published Thursday evening, Putin assured that Russia “has no interests in Poland, Latvia, or elsewhere.” “Why should we do this (invasion – no)? We simply have no interest,” the Russian president replied to the question: “Can you imagine a scenario in which you would introduce Russian troops into Poland?”

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According to the Polish vice-prime minister, who is also responsible for the defense sector, “these statements do not inspire confidence.” “Poland has tasks that need to be completed both as a member state of NATO and as a member of the EU (…) Let’s do our job, prepare for different situations, nothing can make our vigilance fall asleep, and such words (Putin) certainly do not contribute to this, on the contrary,” said the Polish official.

“Historical and literary conversations”

In turn, the President of the Polish Parliament Szymon Kholovnia criticized Putin’s “historical and literary excursions” regarding the history of Poland, Ukraine and Germany.

Answering his own question, “Why did the war with Poland start on September 1, 1939?”, the Russian president estimated that, since Poland “was unyielding,” Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler “could only start with Poland to implement his plans.”

“Putin is delirious in this interview”, he is “a mortal danger for the Baltic states (…), for Poland, Europe and freedom”, and “Carlson played the role of a useful idiot (…) who is holding the microphone of a liar, a criminal and an international terrorist,” says the President of the Polish Parliament.

For his part, the spokesman of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pawel Wronski, states that blaming Poland for the outbreak of the Second World War is one of Putin’s “old paranoid ideas.”

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After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland launched an expensive weapons program, to support which it intends to allocate a defense budget of 4% of GDP.

The main ideas supported by Vladimir Putin in the interview:

From the two-hour interview that the President of Russia gave to a Western journalist after giving the order to start the invasion of Ukraine, according to the summary of the EFE agency, we can recall the following main ideas that he supported:

• – The United States controls the power in Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky only listens to the instructions of Washington, which tells him not to negotiate, so any negotiations depend on the United States.
• – Ukraine is the one that started the war, in 2014, when the president (pro-Russian, not) Viktor Yanukovych was removed from power, and through the military campaign launched on February 24, 2024, Russia will try to end this conflict.
• – Russia has not yet achieved its goals in Ukraine, one of which is denazification (change of leadership of Ukraine, no).
• – Russians and Ukrainians are one people, so the conflict is more like a civil war.
• – Foreign mercenaries fight on the side of the Ukrainian army, mostly Americans, then Poles.
• – If any country sends regular troops to join the Ukrainian army, humanity will be on the threshold of a very serious global conflict.
• – Those who seek to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia and defeat it on the battlefield are beginning to understand that this is impossible.
• – To end the conflict in Ukraine, it would be best to come to an agreement based on the principle that Russia will fight for its interests to the end.
• – In the internal politics of the USA, it is not so much who is running the country that is important, but the goals pursued by the elites, who are the dominant force in American politics.
• – The world will change, regardless of the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine.

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Why did he only interview Tucker Carlson?

Many expected that the head of the Kremlin would comment on domestic politics and the US presidential election in the interview, but he avoided such comments as well as specific proposals to end the conflict in Ukraine, demonstrating only a general readiness for negotiations.

The Kremlin previously reported that it had received numerous requests from Western journalists for an interview with Putin, but the Russian president has so far agreed to give such an interview only to Tucker Carlson, as his approach differs from that favored by many media outlets. Western mass media. Western journalists have confirmed that they have tried unsuccessfully to interview the Russian president, including the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg and Christian Amanpour, a well-known international correspondent for CNN.

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