Russian president’s speech at the UN covered limited original ground but intensified criticism of the US over the rise of the Islamic State and chaos in the Middle East“Egotism” was a word Vladimir Putin used more than once as he gave a thinly veiled dressing down to the United States on Monday. His speech covered limited original ground but sharpened his critique of the current world order and called on the world to come together to fight terrorism in the Middle East.
Putin bemoaned “a world in which egotism reigns supreme” and railed against the arrogant hubris of the west. Putin has been giving much the same speech since he first laid out his grievances in February 2007: the unipolar” world in which Washington dominates,he says, has led to a more dangerous world than that of the cold war, or when an imperfect but useful balance stopped any one country from dominating.
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Source: theguardian.com