UN General Assembly
1974

130. The two super-Powers cynically try to arrogate to themselves the right to do what they please and to establish their presence everywhere in the world, to move about freely wherever and whenever they please. The United States ruling circles and the heads of the Pentagon openly state that the United States cannot accept any reductions in its defense budget because it must remain a first-rank military Power and its military potential must remain greater than that of all the others. 131. On the other hand, the Soviet leaders and their marshals and admirals, with their slogans of "defense of the national interests of the Soviet Union" and "the Soviet Union's political role as a world Power", do not hide the fact that their country must increase its military power and use it as a diplomatic means of intimidation and dissuasion.