One can hardly imagine a more ridiculous and absurd interpretation.

... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person.

On one level it is humorous, ridiculous and absurd. On another level it is scary.

[The Kremlin said Yeltsin was committed to the deal, however.] President Yeltsin states clearly and unequivocally that he is an initiator of the unification of the two fraternal states and their peoples, a consistent and firm supporter of it, ... It is a geopolitical necessity and an economic reality.

The very suggestion of plans to create some counter-blocs are wrong and counter-productive.

absolutely groundless, idle inventions.