In a commentary for RT, Canadian Russia specialist Paul Robinson says the West was warned by Putin in his 2007 Munich Security Conference speech to change attitudes and replace the Cold War, or face the doom of its policies sooner or later.
Putin’s proposals included the end of the unipolar system and the return to a global order centered not on a single country but on the United Nations. In Munich, Putin called for the “architecture of global security” to be reconsidered. This means a system that strikes “an appropriate balance between the interests of all participants in international dialogue"; the use of force remains “a truly exceptional measure"; and “the only mechanism that makes decisions about the use of military force as a last resort, is the Charter of the United Nations,” Robinson recalls.
