Kirill Rogov: what Putin really wanted to talk about
Putting the spoken text and the fragment submitted to the meeting with the "editors" together, we can see Putin's message in the author's, so to speak, original and complete version, and find that the topic of military confrontation with the United States is central to it. In the message, Putin was saying what poll-based analysts have told him people want to hear. And then he met with representatives of the print media and news agencies (well, it's like we are now in the 1950s).