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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070211&articleId=4738

Putin blasts U.S. for 'very dangerous' foreign policies

U.S. foreign policies are prompting countries around the world to develop nuclear arms, Putin told a security conference in Munich on Saturday in what many observers said were the strongest verbal attack that Putin has made on Washington.

Putin, speaking through a translator, said countries were "witnessing the almost uncontained, hyper use of force in international relations."

"One state, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way. This is very dangerous. Nobody feels secure anymore because nobody can hide behind international law," Putin told the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy.

"It is a world of one master, one sovereign.… It has nothing to do with democracy," he told the gathering of senior security officials from around the world.

"This is nourishing the wish of countries to get nuclear weapons."

Putin did not directly refer to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, which was launched without United Nations' sanction, nor the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban government in late 2001. However, Putin said: "Unilateral, illegitimate actions have not solved a single problem: they have become a hotbed of further conflicts................