Putin: US ... needs vassals, not allies

"The U.S. “wants to control everything” and takes decisions unilaterally on key questions, Putin said on a campaign stop yesterday in the Siberian city of Tomsk, 3,100 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow. “Sometimes I get the impression the U.S. doesn’t need allies, it needs vassals.”"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/putin-says-u-s-seeks-vassals-not-allies-as-campaign-heats-up.html

>>15
Well, yes. The aid money are meant to be spent on immediately satisfying the basic needs of people (to buy food, medicine, etc.), while it should be spent on developing infrastucture, building your own farms and factories. You need deal with the cause of problem first, not constantly fight with the consequences of it.