Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin drew the world’s attention with his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York. To most Russia-watchers, the speech was a continuation of his confrontational performance in 2007, when he lobbed a litany of accusation and grievances at the United States and its NATO allies at the Munich Security Conference.Though in his UN speech Putin did make verbal gestures towards the creation of alliances against the threat of global terrorism—patterned on the kinds of pacts made to fight the Nazis—Russia’s actions right after the speech, like proceeding to fly sorties without giving more …read more
Source: The American Interest
