Putin: The U.S. will never subdue Russia

Putin: The U.S. will never subdue Russia
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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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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.