Russia (bbabo.net), - Russian President Vladimir Putin turned out to be right when, in 2007, at the 43rd Munich Security Conference, he called on world leaders and the entire international community to overcome the unipolarity of the world and develop multilateral cooperation. This was stated by the Chairman of the State Council of Italy Franco Frattini in an interview with RIA Novosti.
"It is necessary to abandon the vision that the US is the global policeman who is trying to restore order everywhere," the Italian politician said.
According to him, the Americans themselves realized that unipolarity could no longer be maintained. The rise of China, India, and Russia itself over the years has necessitated multipolarity and new cooperation, which in 2007 President George W. Bush probably didn't want.
Recall, February 10 marked the 15th anniversary of the famous speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Munich Security Conference. In the course of his speech, the Russian leader harshly criticized the unipolar foreign policy of the United States and the expansion of NATO to the borders of our country, as well as plans to deploy American missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe, on concrete facts.
Recall that the ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria Karin Kneissl recently also stated that Putin was right. "Some things may be better judged 15 years later, and I came to the conclusion that President Putin was very right in his words and in his warnings," Kneissl said in an interview with RIA Novosti. According to her, she recently reviewed the speech of the Russian president. “You immediately feel how much personal it is, how much reflection. I would say that in fact, about everything that President Putin spoke about then, one has to admit that, firstly, he, unfortunately, was right, and secondly , since then everything has become even worse and more difficult," the ex-minister believes.
Earlier, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that Vladimir Putin's speech was revolutionary, it directly stated Moscow's worldview on security architecture and upcoming challenges, a broad vision of the future. The Munich speech was not a foreign policy prophecy, but "a very broad vision of the future of the situation in which we were then, and which is being confirmed now," Peskov concluded. He also said that after Putin's Munich speech, there was a chance for the West to understand the futility of a unipolar world, but they did not listen, and this led to a "dangerous line."
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