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

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Of course you do but how are you supposed to even think about improving infrastructure when infant mortality rates are ridiculously high and average life expectancy is nothing?

Who is more likely to build a farm? Someone starving, half-dead with malaria or someone without? The answer is obvious.

Long term needs need to be addressed but not by completely ignoring the short term needs.