It's very very easy for Putin to say this. He's sitting on a mountain of natural resources and very solid political support. Don't pay him any notice. The US is still going to pay it's bills. So the fiscal path they've chosen for the last couple of decades is becoming swiftly unsustainable due to political blindness (both major parties) and blatant idiocy (House Republicans), big deal. The only constant is change, and change is coming.
Nobbling on about the decline and fall of the "American Empire" is not only boring the pants off the world, but also inaccurate and adhering to a worldview that ain't-current-no-more-boyo.
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