Africa: Putin Offers the Emperor Fig Leaf to Cover Nakedness

2 October 2015
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Do you realise now what you have done? It was a gut hollowing question thrown in the face of imperialism's chief musketeer and his gang at this week's United Nations General Assembly meeting by Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

It was a brutal question enough, but directed at a supercilious world power too blinded by conceit to admit "we were wrong on Afghanistan, on Iraq and on Libya. We are wrong on Syria now. Thank you for coming by."

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