During my visit to Moscow in December 2009, I sensed that President Putin was challenging the world order that the U.S. created so successfully after World War II. Beginning in 2014, he invaded Ukraine and launched a military action in Syria.
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Barely had I been seated before Vladimir Putin told me that NATO - the organization that I then headed - no longer had any purpose and should be disbanded. "After the end of the Cold War, we dissolved the Warsaw Pact," he said. "Similarly, you should dissolve NATO. That is a relic from the Cold War."