Despite his dirty war that has been going on in Ukraine for a year and a half, Vladimir Putin has not lost his friends. In the spring of 2022, when fifty countries refused to condemn Russian aggression, the Western world remained confident in its ability to tip some of it to the free world and liberal democracies.
Eighteen months later, the visit of the turbulent Kim Jong-un to Vladivostok, the outcome of the BRICS and G20 summits, the replacement of the French military in Africa by Wagner and the Chinese and most of the events that punctuate the international news prove that this was not the case. Worse: the war in Ukraine has served as a revelation of the changing world already at work. It has fostered the rise of emerging economies, accelerated the de-Westernization of the world and propelled an alternative model to democracy onto the international scene. A year and a half later, Russian aggression still enjoys the indulgence of a great deal of...
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