Putin: the "policy of containment (of Russia) has been held against our country for decades---Centuries"

Earlier today, speaking to the representatives of the Federal Assembly in Kremlin, he claimed that “the crisis in Ukraine was just a formal pretext for sanctions.”  He was confident that “If all this had never happened, any other excuse would have been created” as a result of the “policy of containment [of Russia] which was invented not yesterday, but has been held against our country for decades, if not centuries.”

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http://observer.com/2014/12/top-russian-banker-and-putin-confidante-threatens-us-with-war/#ixzz3L4jCoV3P

Politics is all about a point of view. Though this might be surprising to people in the Western World this way of seeing things likely would play in Russia to Russian patriots.

So, to me, this is frightening because this is what you would say to your population as a leader if you plan to engage in open warfare at some point in the near or far future. This kind of rhetoric is preparing Russian Patriots for actual war with the western world.