Putin said that while he was groveling to try and get back into his lucritive oil deals with Iraq. Compare them with his most recent comments when he blames the United States on the terror in Russia and backs away from his own Soviet style tactics that kindled the crisis.
Very selective of you...and too funny in a Soviet kind of way.
We just gave asylum to a chechen terrorist. Nice move.
Actually this was a myth which I corrected with a more accurate posting just a few days ago. Putin was not speaking of us when he used the words "the west".