Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.

I am not asserting this, it is just a hypothesis. Let's suppose that the United States would like to maintain its leadership in the Atlantic community. It needs an external threat, an external enemy to ensure this leadership.

Every neighbouring state is an enemy and the enemy's enemy is a friend.

Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it.

Nothing has changed in Russia policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld domination is immutable.