We may have witnessed history today in Putin's comments

Putin made a major speech today at an international security conference that blasted the US for its foreign policy. (AP, Reuters, AFP, BBC, WaPo.)

Quotes assembled from the articles:

"The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres -- economic, political and humanitarian and has imposed itself on other states."

"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," he said, speaking through a translator. "This is nourishing an arms race with the desire of countries to get nuclear weapons."

"One-sided illegitimate action hasn't solved a single problem and has become a generator of many human tragedies, a source of tension."

"Local and regional wars didn't get fewer. The number of people who died didn't get less but increased significantly."

The United States, he said, had gone "from one conflict to another without achieving a fully-fledged solution to any of them."----

"It has nothing in common with democracy because that is the opinion of the majority taking into account the minority opinion. People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves."

(The US delegation and Germany's Merkel were shocked, outraged, blindsided and responded by lashing back. More later, I'm sure.)