Russian President Vladimir Putin talked a tough game about the U.S. on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
"They do not want to humiliate us, they want to subdue us, solve their problems at our expense," he said during a meeting with the People's Front, his core political support group. "No one in history ever managed to achieve this with Russia, and no one ever will."
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