Saturday, February 10, 2007

It really makes me feel creepy inside...

...when I agree with Vladimir Putin, but that's what it's come to.

"Unilateral, illegitimate actions have not solved a single problem, they have become a hotbed of further conflicts," Putin said at the Munich Conference on Security Policy, an annual forum attracting senior officials from around the world.

"One state, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way."

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But Putin said it was "the almost uncontained hyper-use of force in international relations" that was forcing countries opposed to Washington to seek to build up nuclear arsenals.

"It is a world of one master, one sovereign. ... It has nothing to do with democracy. This is nourishing the wish of countries to get nuclear weapons," he said.

"This is very dangerous. Nobody feels secure anymore because nobody can hide behind international law," Putin told the gathering.
He's crazy, he's corrupt, he's overbearing, and he's quite possibly bad for his own country and the world...but he's closer to reality than our own leaders. Sad.