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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Foreign "aid" is a method of taking over other countries, putting them into debt that they don't need.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man