The meeting in Samarkand, from September 15 to 16, 2022, of the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO, founded in the early 2000s by China and Russia, as a counterweight to Western international organizations) showed that Vladimir Putin still had friends around the world, despite his military invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022.
In fact, Russia continues to maintain excellent political and economic relations with the four major Eastern powers of Turkey, Iran, India and China.
These countries believe, like Russia, that the West is illegitimate in wanting to impose its vision of democracy on the whole world.
All five were critical of the 2003 Anglo-Saxon regime-change invasion of Iraq.
They believe that NATO's eastward extension was excessive after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and then of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. They consider it provocative...
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