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Mon 02 Feb 2007Putin broadside at US recalls Cold War eraGermany:Cold War rhetoric left a chill at this year's Munich security conference after Russia accused the US of starting a new arms race and blundering from one "unilateral, illegitimate" war to the next.In his debut performance at the conference, Russian president Vladimir Putin promised delegates a polemic, and stole the show by claiming the US had "overstepped its borders in every way".