The Guardian foreign correspondent Shaun Walker wrote that Putin "appeared genuinely angry and passionate in his speech" and described it as "an angry, rambling lecture."[12] Kristaps Andrejsons of Foreign Policy wrote that the speech was a "messy, incoherent, angry rant that is difficult to make sense of but that put forward a dark vision of renewed national glory" that "rightly has neighboring states, once victims of Russian imperialism themselves, highly worried."[13] Matthew Sussex of the Australian National University wrote that "Putin resembled more a Russian ultranationalist with a shaky grasp of history than a pragmatic master strategist," adding that it seemed as if Putin had made it "his personal mission to rewrite the history of the end of the Cold War."[14]