Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking at the 43rd Munich Security Policy Conference. File photoMOSCOW, May 14.The West made a mistake and ignored the main message of Russian President Vladimir Putin's Munich speech in 2007, columnist Harlan Ullman wrote in an article for the Hill newspaper. The author of the article recalled that the Russian leader insisted on a commitment to a multipolar world.
" conference on security, Putin launched an angry tirade against the United States as "the only pole of power" and against NATO expansion. The participants in the meeting were shocked by the vigor of Putin's attacks, but on the whole they brushed them aside. It was a mistake", Ulman explained.
The publicist believes that the Russian president considered the reaction of Western leaders to his theses disrespectful. China warned of consequences of NATO expansion It has been 15 years since Vladimir Putin delivered his famous speech at the Munich Security Conference. Then he harshly criticized the foreign policy of the United States and the idea of a unipolar world order, sharply opposed plans for NATO expansion and the deployment of American missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said earlier that after the Munich speech there was a chance for the West to understand the futility unipolar world, but they did not listen, and this led to a «dangerous line». «