“You know, they don’t listen to us, they don’t want to, they don’t like us.
They are fighting with us.
But they should have heard themselves.
Here they are, in this case I’m talking about those who are trying to regulate gas prices in Europe, they obey the Americans in everything, ”he said.
The President of Russia cited the words of the Nobel Prize winner, economist Milton Friedman.
According to him, if the goal is to create a shortage of tomatoes, it is necessary to impose a price cap on tomatoes.
“That's what they do here.
With gas and oil.
The same - one to one.
For some reason, they don’t listen,” Putin added.
The President of Russia also announced the signing of a decree on retaliatory measures to introduce a cap on oil prices in the near future.
He noted that the ceiling on gas prices will not lead to anything good, just like oil.