...Putin's speech did not win over anyone either. Sounding as if he had stepped out of a Cold War time warp, he accused the U.S. and NATO of threatening his country... At a superficial level, his remarks might sound like the standard plaints from Western liberals about American "unilateralism," which is how they were portrayed in some European news accounts. But coming from such an illiberal leader, these comments had a different mien — sinister and absurd at once. Putin, for instance, complained that a unipolar world order dominated by the U.S. was undemocratic... His concern might be touching if...