Trump made his statement on September 23 in a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron on the fields of the UN General Assembly in New York. The head of the White House Compared the Russian Federation with the “paper tiger” And he emphasized that during the full -scale war in Ukraine the Russian Federation did not achieve success, although he pretends to win.
During the performance on Valdai (it lasted four hours), Putin mentioned the “paper tiger” several times, which probably indicates that the comparison of Trump hit him. At the same time, the illegitimate president suggested that it was said “with irony.”
“Paper tiger”. And then maybe what? […] Well then go and figure out this “paper tiger. And then-see?” “Everything happens differently,” he said.
The head of the Kremlin claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly receive “how much” from the West “(which is far from so) and that” everywhere Russian troops are confidently holding a strategic initiative. “
Also, the head of the Kremlin made excuses that supposedly Russia is fighting with NATO.
“If we are fighting with the whole NATO block and move, we are moving, we feel confident-this is a“ paper tiger ”? Who is NATO herself then? What is it like? CHE-kHE,” Putin crozen.
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On September 24, commenting on Trump's words about the “paper tiger” of Russia, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin was using associations with another beast. “Russia is not a tiger, it is still more associated with a bear. There are no paper bears. The Russian Federation is a real bear,” he said.
In NATO, commenting on the words of Peskov, they noted that in the Russian Federation, “the queues of cars that are waiting to refuel gasoline” as a result of drones.
The media wrote that Trump's statement about the “paper tiger” of the Russian Federation It is based on the new US intelligence data.
September 25th Trump promised no one else to call anyone a “paper tiger”.
