The West made the mistake of ignoring Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s speech in Munich in 2007, columnist Harlan Ullman said in an article for The Hill.
“At the Munich Security Conference, Putin launched a furious tirade against the United States as ‘the only pole of power’ and against NATO expansion. The meeting was shocked by the intensity of Putin’s attacks, but rejected them altogether. It was a mistake,” he said in the text of the article.
He noted that the Russian leader considers the reaction of the West to his speech disrespectful.
Putin said earlier that the blame for the global consequences of sanctions on Russia lies with Western countries that are ready to sacrifice the rest of the world for the sake of their dominance.
In Munich V.Putin gave everybody to understand that today the United States seek to construct a unipolar world, in which they intend to become a superpower standing above the others, i.e. to become a single centre of authority and power. However, differently from W.Churchill, V.Putin did not say that the United States did not want war. The Russian President stated that America by its national law actually replaces the international law and popularizes the instrument of military power in international relations, and ignores the position of the international community
Putin’s Munich speech was an important diplomatic warning to the United States and its allies that Russia’s patience with NATO’s encroachment was at an end.
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