On May 10, President of Russia Vladimir Putin sent an annual address to the Russian State Duma, which is actually an address to the whole world.
“There is an evident tendency to widen the conflict spectrum and this is extremely dangerous,” announced Putin.
Based on that, the Russian president placed high emphasis on strengthening the country’s military potential and brought up other countries whose voices play a decisive role in actions taking place around the world-countries which, according to Putin, exceed Russia with their military budgets. Putin especially pointed out the U.S. military budget, which exceeds that of Russia by 25 times.
“In the defense field, that’s called: their home is their fort. Good for them. But that means that we must also build our own strong and promising home because we see all that is going on in the world. As they say, ‘the wolf knows what to eat-eat and don’t listen to anybody’,” announced the President of Russia.