Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw Moscow condemned by countries globally, leader Vladimir Putin is staging a summit with more than a dozen world leaders – in a pointed signal from the autocrat that far from being alone, an emerging coalition of countries stands behind him.
It seems you haven’t noticed yet that it is the Global North that’s increasingly isolating itself from the rest of the world. And given that the Global North has largely de-industrialized, it’s going to find itself in a pickle. And Russia is major player in the global majority.
To everyone not buying the imperial core’s cartoonish propaganda, this is a non sequitur, because those aren’t things Russia intended or intends to do.