Digging up Blame

In the article it states how earlier this year the President of Russia accused the US of supporting rebel separatists in the early 2000’s. When after a difficult war in the 1990’s there were many rebel separatists in the North Caucasus mountains the Russian president accused high official intelligence officers of assisting these separatists and even providing them intel and transportation. Later on in the interview with the president he continued on to accuse the US as being one of the most challenging adversities he had to overcome. He also says that it is the West’s fault that Russia is not as strong as it could be, for whenever it starts to grow economically and otherwise the West punishes it. He even goes further to say that the sanctions aren’t a reaction to the recent war but actually just a way to hamper Russia’s development.

I believe that even though we do have some what tight sanctions on Russia I don’t believe that those sanctions are what is causing Russia to not be able to develop. The president is just using the US as a scapegoat for all his failures. HE said he has looked into possibly running again in 2019. So instead of fixing the problems he said he would when he first ran he is blaming the US and the West for the weak political and economical status if their country.

http://townhall.com/news/world/2015/04/26/putin-accuses-us-of-supporting-separatists-in-russia-n1990687