"The West
is ready to cross every line to preserve the neo-colonial system
that allows it to live off the world, to plunder it thanks
to the domination of the dollar and technology,
to collect an actual tribute from humanity, to extract its
primary source of unearned prosperity, the rent paid
to the hegemon. The preservation of this annuity is their
main, real and absolutely self-serving motivation. This is why total
de-sovereignisation is in their interest. This explains their aggression
towards independent states, traditional values and authentic cultures,
their attempts to undermine international and integration processes,
new global currencies and technological development centres they cannot
control. It is critically important for them to force all countries
to surrender their sovereignty to the United States. "--Vladimir Putin