"The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom."

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Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.

— Vladimir Putin