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MOSCOW | Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:24am EST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the United States wants to dominate other countries and that the world is tired of taking orders from Washington.

"Sometimes it seems to me that America does not need allies, it needs vassals," Putin said during a annual televised call-in show.

He said that Russia would like to be an ally of the United States but that "people are tired of the dictates of one country."

(Writing by Steve Gutterman, editing by Gleb Bryanski)
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GloballySpeakin wrote:
It seems more often than not, the people who make these types of statements are those from either failed states or nations that are in danger of becoming a failed state. Why does that matter you ask? Because if it wasn’t for creating controversy with the United States, nobody would pay any attention to these failing countries. It’s sort of like the goth loser kid in high school bad mouthing the popular football star because they can’t stand the fact that the football star is actually a pretty likable guy once you get to know him.

Furthermore, I wonder if Putin has ever heard of the phrase “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” He seems to have conveniently forgotten the fact that Russia “dictated” its power onto Georgia in the South Ossetia conflict. Russia has also called Kosovo’s declaration of independence illegal. I wonder if Georgia or Kosovo are tired of “the dictates of one country”?

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