Well, that sounds strong but Mr Putin is following Gorbachev's lead from his 1986 book, Perestroika, in which Gorby quoted Lenin saying that the Soviets should pretend to be capitalists in order to get some needed money from the "Main Adversary"( that being the USA). So whether we like it or not, whether is fits our emotional attachment to Reagan's defeat of the Evil Empire, we should face the fact that they, the communists, have a strategy that has outsmarted us.
Gorbachev tried. They lost all of their former slave colonies (republics)in the process, or did you forget about that. And they ai'nt going back. They lost all influence in eastern Europe as well. Former iron curtain countries such as Pland , the Chech Republic, and Hungary are doing quite nicely as US allies now. People can migrate to and from Russia now. They will not be defeating anybody anytime soon.