Putin Slams US For Making World More Dangerous

Courtesy Of: Yahoo News
Original Source: Agence France-Presse
By Nick Coleman
Sat Feb 10, 8:18 AM ET

MUNICH, Germany (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a full-frontal attack on the United States, saying it had made the world a more dangerous place and left successive conflicts unresolved.

Addressing an audience of senior officials and politicians including many from the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO), Putin said the United States had "overstepped" its borders with disastrous results.

The Russian leader, ...accused Washington of operating by "separate norms."

"The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres -- economic, political and humanitarian and has imposed itself on other states," he told delegates at he 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy.

"One-sided illegitimate action hasn't solved a single problem and has become a generator of many human tragedies, a source of tension," Putin said Saturday.

"Local and regional wars didn't get fewer. The number of people who died didn't get less but increased significantly."

The United States, he said, had gone "from one conflict to another without achieving a fully-fledged solution to any of them."

Putin also took aim at US plans to site a missile defence system close to Russia's border in NATO countries the Czech Republic and Poland, adding that any further enlargement of the alliance would be inappropriate.

"Why is it necessary to put military infrastructure on our border? It's hardly connected to today's global threats. What is the threat? Terrorism and fighting it," Putin said.