Maybe this is part of waking people up to the possibility that Putin is not the madman he's been made out to be. From his speech September 30:
"I cannot rule out that they will try to trigger a collapse of the entire system, and blame everything on that, or, God forbid, decide to use the old formula of economic growth through war.
Russia is aware of its responsibility to the international community and will make every effort to ensure that cooler heads prevail."
Maybe this is part of waking people up to the possibility that Putin is not the madman he's been made out to be. From his speech September 30:
"I cannot rule out that they will try to trigger a collapse of the entire system, and blame everything on that, or, God forbid, decide to use the old formula of economic growth through war.
Russia is aware of its responsibility to the international community and will make every effort to ensure that cooler heads prevail."