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The Great Satan, NATO, and Putin’s Hypocrisy

As we all know – annual conferences are a great venue for peacock pride, barrel-chested bravado, and well-worn speeches full of optimism and strategy yet hollow on truth and outcome.
The annual Munich Conference on Security Policy is this and so much more. The conference, in its 43rd year, invites “the international security community – ministers, [...]

Posted on February 7th, 2007 under Australia, EU, Great Satan, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Japan, Lieberman, McCain, Merkel, Munich, NATO, New Zealand, Putin, Robert Gates, Rumsfeld, Russia, Sergey Ivanov, Taliban. Comments: 8

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