“It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States,” Putin wrote in an article for the New York Times titled, A Plea for Caution from Russia. Putin stated that as a result of Washington’s reliance on “brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan ‘you’re either with us or against us’”, the US is no longer viewed as a model for democracy. The Russian president denied Western allegations that the Syrian government was behind a chemical attack on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21. Putin said that the foreign-backed militants were behind the controversial chemical attack and that the Western allegations are being used as a pretext for a military intervention.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:32:00 +0000
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