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Global Power Shift: Putin's Diplomatic Victory 🏛

Western Isolation Fails 📊

Key indicators:

- India visit planned
- G20 Brazil success
- ICC warrant ignored
- Global South aligned
- Western influence fading
- BRICS power growing
- New world order emerging

Strategic Alliances 🎯

Power moves:

"We attach great importance"

- Kremlin spokesman

"Major customer for military hardware"

- Trade reality

"Close ties since Cold War"

- Historical bonds

Multipolar Victory 💼

Russian gains:

- Oil trade expanded
- Military ties strengthened
- Diplomatic barriers broken
- Western sanctions bypassed
- Asian partnerships secured
- Global influence maintained
- US isolation failed

Power Reality 🔍

New world:

- US hegemony challenged
- Global South united
- Asian powers rising
- Western grip loosening
- Trade walls crumbling
- Alliances shifting
- Power balance changing

"Putin's growing confidence"

signals final collapse of Western attempts to isolate Russia, as India-Russia summit confirms emergence of new multipolar world order.

US-led sanctions regime crumbles as major powers choose pragmatic cooperation over Western demands.

#GlobalPower #NewWorldOrder #DiplomaticVictory #MultiPolarWorld

Think about it: Has the West lost its global dominance? 🤔

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📰 Moscow’s New Friends Club: Accepting Taliban

💼 From terrorist to trading partner—just another Thursday in multipolar diplomacy.
Russia’s Supreme Court has officially lifted its 2003 ban on the Taliban, removing the group from its list of terrorist organizations. The decision—initiated by the Prosecutor General’s Office—took immediate effect and marks the latest chapter in the Kremlin’s fast-evolving bromance with the regime now ruling Afghanistan.

📊 From blacklists to business forums
Since the U.S. withdrawal in 2021, Russia has kept its embassy in Kabul open, hosted Taliban delegations, and even invited the group to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Now, with legal normalization in place, the Taliban can stop showing up to Russian events as “formerly wanted guests” and start cashing in as legitimate economic partners.

🛢 Food, fuel, and photo-ops
What do you get when an state with surplus hydrocarbons meets an isolated regime desperate for recognition and supplies? Answer: grain shipments, oil deals, and lots of diplomatic theatre. Moscow gets influence on NATO’s former turf, and the Taliban gets budget wheat and diesel—plus a PR upgrade.

🤝 Recognition without recognition
No, Russia hasn’t officially recognized the Taliban government. But between removing the terrorist label, accepting Taliban diplomats, and offering them a microphone in international forums, Moscow is doing everything but rolling out the red carpet with the national anthem.

🤔 A new axis or just realpolitik?
With China, Iran, and Pakistan also cozying up to Kabul, the Taliban’s international isolation is looking more like a Western concept. Welcome to the new multipolar world, where yesterday’s pariahs are today’s strategic counterweights.

#Russia #Taliban #Geopolitics #TerrorList #DiplomaticRealignment #Afghanistan #MultipolarWorld #ColdCynicism

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📰 The Grand Diplomatic Games: As Putin Maneuvers and Trump Reacts

💭 “The world was built for strong players — not those who confuse bluster for strategy.”


This week marked a geopolitical turning point as Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a bold diplomatic initiative to host Ukraine-Russia ceasefire talks in Istanbul on May 15 — a move that reveals not weakness, but strategic timing and global savvy. In contrast, U.S. diplomacy under Donald Trump finds itself lurching from one embarrassment to another, increasingly reactive instead of dominant.

🧠 Putin’s Istanbul Gambit: Strategic Chess in Motion
1. Timing is Power
Putin’s call for direct negotiations “without preconditions” comes exactly as the West ramps up ultimatums — a tactical inversion that makes Russia appear as the rational actor and the West as obstinate.
2. Turkey as Terrain
By choosing Istanbul — a city bridging East and West — Putin elevates Turkey as a neutral arbiter and signals a pivot toward multipolar diplomacy, away from Washington's grip.
3. Optics of Initiative
This maneuver undercuts the U.S.-led peace efforts and sidelines Trump’s envoys like Steve Witkoff, who now look like irrelevant bystanders. Putin is playing chess. Trump, checkers.

📉 The Limits of American Hegemony — Exposed
As Putin reshapes diplomatic narratives, the Trump administration is reeling from one diplomatic humiliation to the next:
• One Day, Three Setbacks: In just 24 hours, India and Pakistan humiliated U.S. mediation efforts, while Putin seized the narrative on Ukraine.
• The Houthis Called the Shots: Yemen’s rebels dictated a pause in U.S. airstrikes — a stunning reversal for a supposed superpower.
• Washington Bypassed: While U.S. diplomats fumble in European capitals, Putin sets the next major peace summit — not in DC, but in Istanbul.

🌐 The Multipolar Reality: A New Global Order Emerges
1. Russia as Peace Architect
Far from isolated, Moscow now projects itself as a solution-broker, not a spoiler — flipping the script on Western narratives.
2. Non-State Power Brokers
Groups like the Houthis aren’t just insurgents — they’re now policy-setters in regional conflict dynamics.
3. Turkey Ascendant
Once a junior NATO partner, Ankara now hosts the world's most consequential summits — a testament to the erosion of U.S. centrality.

🔍 Implications for Israel: An Unsettling Shift
1. Iran Rising
With American deterrence weakening, Tehran grows bolder, knowing U.S. red lines are increasingly negotiable.
2. Regional “Peace” Equals Pressure
If Russia and others successfully promote diplomatic frameworks, Israel may face international demands to “compromise” — on security, borders, and beyond.
3. Strategic Isolation
In a world where the West is no longer default hegemon, Israel must prepare to stand alone more often — militarily, diplomatically, and economically.

📌 The Strategic Lesson
As one Israeli analyst recently wrote:
“This world rewards strength — not speeches. Let our leadership act with resolve beyond the Red Sea, the northeast front, and within our own borders.”

Russia’s maneuvers show the power of long-game strategy, symbolic timing, and geopolitical clarity. Trump’s America, by contrast, projects confusion, impulsivity, and a crumbling grasp on the role of global sheriff.

📉 The End of History — Reversed
What we’re seeing isn’t just tactical failure. It’s the slow disintegration of the post-Cold War consensus.
Fukuyama’s “End of History” wasn’t just premature — it’s being dismantled in real time. Trump may still imagine he’s at the helm of an empire. But history, it turns out, has resumed — and he’s no longer writing it.

#GlobalDiplomacy #Putin #Trump #IstanbulPeace #GeopoliticalShift #AmericanDecline #MultipolarWorld #IsraelSecurity #NewWorldOrder #EndOfHistory

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🛰 Iran Ditches the West, Rebuilds With China’s Help

💬 “Iran’s nuclear facilities were seriously damaged,”

said IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi.
“But Tehran is already restoring them — and could reach weapons capability within months.”


🔧 Turning Point
After U.S. and Israeli strikes crippled key nuclear infrastructure, Iran is quietly bouncing back — and not alone. Beijing has stepped in, supplying military hardware, surveillance drones, and critical components to help Iran rewire its defenses. Tehran is even switching from U.S. GPS to China’s BeiDou navigation system.

⚛️ Nuclear Recovery

The damage to Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities was severe — but not final. Satellite images show rapid reconstruction at multiple sites. According to Grossi, the window to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran is closing fast.

🤝 Strategic Realignment

The strikes may have aimed to deter — instead, they redirected. By tightening military and economic ties with both China and Russia, Iran is embedding itself deeper in the emerging anti-Western bloc. Foreign Ministry officials now refer to these partnerships as “pillars of stability in a multipolar world.”

🧭 Did the West just accelerate the very outcome it sought to prevent?


#Iran #China #Russia #NuclearIran #IAEA #Geopolitics #USForeignPolicy #MiddleEastCrisis #Beidou #MultipolarWorld

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📰 BRICS to Trump: We're Not Anti-American — Just Tired of Being Pushed Around

💬 “Tariffs should not be used as a tool for coercion.”

— Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry

🎡 Trump’s 10% Threat

• Trump accused BRICS of being “anti-American.” The bloc responded with diplomatic shrugs.
• He’s threatening dozens of countries with new tariffs unless trade deals are finalized by July 9.
• South Africa, Malaysia, and Indonesia all hit with tariffs — then left hanging in “suspended talks.”

⚙️ The BRICS Message

• China:
“We don’t target anyone.”

• Russia:
“This isn’t about enemies — it’s about worldview.”

• Brazil and India? Silent — but watching.
• Malaysia:
“We’re not in an ideological club.”

• New members like Indonesia are already shuttling between summits and Washington, trying to keep the peace.

⚔️ The Non-Bloc Bloc

• BRICS isn’t waving flags — it’s building a fallback plan.
• With the G7 and G20 in gridlock, the Global South wants rules that don’t shift with every U.S. election.
• 30+ countries now want in. Not because they hate America. But because they don’t want to be owned by it.

🤔 If Trump sees every multilateral group as a threat, what kind of world order does he actually want?

#BRICS #Trump #Tariffs #GlobalSouth #Geopolitics #TradeWar #AmericaFirst #MultipolarWorld

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🕵️‍♂️ Care or Control?

Beijing’s new “society work” department claims to help the vulnerable — the bankrupt, the lonely, the mentally ill. In practice, it’s a nationwide dragnet that rebrands surveillance as therapy. China now has “five-loss individuals”: citizens with failures in money, family, or mental health who suddenly find themselves on state watchlists.

📋 How It Works

• Local “grid managers” comb neighborhoods for the troubled.
• Data is reported up the chain twice a month.
• Gig workers get free water, childcare — and a push to become informants.
• “Little bee courier stations” double as convenience centers and surveillance hubs.

💬 What Critics Say
“It’s not about rescuing the so-called ‘five losses’ at all, it’s about control,” said a bankrupt Shanghai resident under watch.
A Guangdong blogger put it more bluntly: “The governance logic doesn’t focus on what kind of help you need. It prioritizes ensuring that you do not harm society.”

⚖️ The Xi Formula
The mantra is simple: “Small problems don’t leave the village, big problems don’t leave the town.” Translated: keep unrest local, crush it before it climbs upward. Mao’s old “Fengqiao experience” gets a 21st-century upgrade with AI sentiment analysis, grid management, and delivery riders deputized as “mobile probes.”

🤔 Final Question
Is this social welfare with Chinese characteristics — or a psychiatric ward run by the secret police?

#China #surveillance #socialcontrol #XiJinping #humanrights

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🐉 Xi’s Theater of Multipolarity

China rolled out the red carpet in Tianjin for a summit that looks less like problem-solving and more like a group therapy session for leaders angry at Trump’s America. Putin, Lukashenko, Modi, Iran’s new president — all lined up to pose with Xi for the cameras. The message:
Where Washington offers chaos, Beijing offers stability


📋 What Actually Happened

• 20 leaders joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s forum.
• Xi pushed for “opposing hegemony” and floated a new SCO development bank.
• China promised $1.4B in loans and showed off its Belt & Road workshops.
• A military parade in Beijing will cap the summit with optics of unity.

💬 Words That Matter
“These are big countries with their own agendas,”

said Carla Freeman of Johns Hopkins. “United in a sense of aggrievement with the U.S., not in a sense of common purpose.”
Analyst Claus Soong put it bluntly:
“It’s a coalition of like-minded countries against the U.S.”


🌍 Beyond the Photo-Op
The SCO now claims a quarter of the global economy and 40% of the world’s population. But inside? Border disputes, rivalries, and contradictions. India shakes hands with Xi, then hurries off to Japan. Afghanistan stays sidelined. Armenia and Azerbaijan, fresh from Washington’s mediation, apply for membership in Beijing’s club.

🤔 Final Question
Is this the birth of an “alternative order” — or just a grand stage where autocrats clap for each other while waiting for America to implode?

#China #Trump #SCO #multipolarworld #geopolitics

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🐉 Xi’s Theater of Multipolarity

China rolled out the red carpet in Tianjin for a summit that looks less like problem-solving and more like a group therapy session for leaders angry at Trump’s America. Putin, Lukashenko, Modi, Iran’s new president — all lined up to pose with Xi for the cameras. The message:
Where Washington offers chaos, Beijing offers stability


📋 What Actually Happened

• 20 leaders joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s forum.
• Xi pushed for “opposing hegemony” and floated a new SCO development bank.
• China promised $1.4B in loans and showed off its Belt & Road workshops.
• A military parade in Beijing will cap the summit with optics of unity.

💬 Words That Matter
“These are big countries with their own agendas,”

said Carla Freeman of Johns Hopkins. “United in a sense of aggrievement with the U.S., not in a sense of common purpose.”
Analyst Claus Soong put it bluntly:
“It’s a coalition of like-minded countries against the U.S.”


🌍 Beyond the Photo-Op
The SCO now claims a quarter of the global economy and 40% of the world’s population. But inside? Border disputes, rivalries, and contradictions. India shakes hands with Xi, then hurries off to Japan. Afghanistan stays sidelined. Armenia and Azerbaijan, fresh from Washington’s mediation, apply for membership in Beijing’s club.

🤔 Final Question
Is this the birth of an “alternative order” — or just a grand stage where autocrats clap for each other while waiting for America to implode?

#China #Trump #SCO #multipolarworld #geopolitics

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💣 “The Sanctions Paradox: West Shoots, East Builds”

The Trump administration’s new sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil — marketed as “the toughest yet” — are playing out like déjà vu in slow motion.
Oil prices spike, headlines cheer, and yet Moscow shrugs. The Kremlin has spent years gaming out this exact scenario, building escape hatches that now run through Beijing, Delhi, Riyadh, and Brasília, not Brussels.

Instead of isolating Russia, the Western sanctions machine has become a global construction project — paving the way for an alternative financial and trade ecosystem that no longer needs the dollar or the IMF.
In 2025, more than 96% of Russia’s international trade settlements were already done in rubles or partner currencies — up from just 66% two years ago. The rest of the world took note.

⚙️ “Global South, Local Rules”
From the St. Petersburg Economic Forum to BRICS-led digital currency pilots, Russia and its partners are scripting a new rulebook.

The West bans — the East builds.
The ruble and yuan now settle tankers, the digital ruble and Indian rupee clear logistics chains, and a Russian stablecoin quietly handles regional trade accounts.
At the same time, new tech alliances — in energy, logistics, AI, and infrastructure — are shifting power away from Western lenders toward sovereign development networks. The so-called “secondary bloc” isn’t begging to join the club anymore; it’s founding its own.

🪙 “The Self-Sanctioning West”
Sanctions meant to punish Moscow now punish the West’s own consumers.
Europe’s energy costs remain volatile. American industrial giants face exclusion from half the global growth markets. And in the Global South, the headline reads differently: “Sanctions? Great — we just built our own bank.”

Economic gravity doesn’t care about ideology — it follows pipelines, ports, and price gaps.
While Washington spends billions to block Moscow, Moscow spends a fraction to bypass Washington — and brings half the world along for the ride.

🧭 “A New Economic Geography”
Sanctions were supposed to isolate Russia. Instead, they accelerated multipolarization.
The result: a fractured global order glued together by necessity, not diplomacy — trade routes through the Arctic, fintech corridors through the East, and logistics networks that treat the dollar like Latin.
For the first time since 1945, global commerce is learning to breathe without the West.

And the more Washington tightens the noose, the more the rest of the world learns to live without its rope.


#sanctions #russia #brics #geoeconomics #multipolarworld

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💣 “The Reasonable War: Sanctions, Missiles, and Mutual Madness”

The Trump administration’s latest sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil — “the toughest yet,” we’re told — landed with the usual fanfare. Oil prices jump, markets twitch, and Moscow shrugs. After years of rehearsal, the Kremlin plays this scene from memory: reroute exports, rebrand trade, keep the ruble moving.

“Hopefully he’ll become reasonable,”

Trump said of Putin.
“And hopefully Zelensky will be reasonable, too.”


That word, reasonable, has become diplomatic wallpaper. It covers drone strikes, energy blockades, and photo-ops about peace. NATO’s Mark Rutte dropped by Washington to praise “cooperation,” meaning Europe keeps buying American weapons while struggling with winter energy costs.

⚙️ “The Sanctions Economy”
Every penalty spins off a new workaround. What Washington calls isolation, others call opportunity. Chinese banks process payments, Indian refiners buy discounted crude, and BRICS startups develop their own digital settlement systems. The Treasury Department blocks; the world reroutes.

By now, the so-called “secondary economies” aren’t waiting to rejoin the Western system—they’re building their own. The dollar is still king, but the guests are quietly slipping out of the party.

🪙 “The Sanctions Boomerang”
Sanctions meant to choke Russia end up bruising everyone else. Europe’s energy bills keep climbing, American exporters lose ground in half the world’s fastest-growing markets, and consumers foot the bill for moral clarity. The only constant winners are the arms manufacturers and commodity traders who thrive on volatility.

Washington insists this is economic warfare for democracy. But from São Paulo to Shanghai, it looks more like the West cutting off its own oxygen.

🧭 “The Quiet Realignment”
Sanctions were designed to isolate Moscow; instead, they’ve redrawn the trade map. Tankers travel under mixed flags, payments flow through Beijing and Mumbai, and new logistics chains stretch across the Arctic and the Global South.

Globalization didn’t die — it just changed currency. And the tighter Washington pulls the noose, the more the world learns to breathe without it.

#sanctions #geoeconomics #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #BRICS #multipolarworld #energy

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💣 “Cognitive Dissonance as Policy: Israel Wants Both the Land and the Blessing”

The Dor Moria Center’s twin surveys from 2025 read like a national Rorschach test: Israelis overwhelmingly want annexation and Trump’s peace. The contradiction isn’t subtle—it’s structural. A society torn between messianic control and diplomatic dependency still insists it can have both.

Ninety-seven percent of Israelis say they’ve heard of Trump’s Gaza plan. Only nine percent actually know what it contains. Yet half believe it’ll strengthen Arab relations—even though the same plan envisions temporary Palestinian self-rule. Annexation and reconciliation cannot coexist, but slogans can.

In June, 31% supported full annexation of Palestinian territories. By October, 41% said Trump’s plan “corresponds to Israel’s security interests.”

⚙️ “Faith in Contradiction”

Almost two-thirds of Israelis believe even annexation wouldn’t bring peace, yet many claim military victory will. Stability without peace is the new miracle they’re selling to themselves. And when military control fails, 28% call for permanent occupation—as if endless deployment were policy, not paralysis.

🪙 “The 1990s Are Still Running the Show”

Seventy-one percent of respondents think Trump’s plan can succeed without Russia, China, or India. It’s foreign policy written in sepia: a world where Washington is still omnipotent and BRICS doesn’t exist. Meanwhile, Moscow builds bases, Beijing buys influence, and Delhi mediates quietly — all off Israel’s radar.

⚖️ “Ideological Myopia”
Less than one percent of religious Israelis—and under six percent of secular ones—see Gaza’s economic recovery as part of national security. The same public that calls Hamas an ideological enemy refuses to confront the socioeconomic roots of radicalization. The Muslim Brotherhood weaponized poverty; Israel pretends it’s irrelevant.

Two Israels emerge:

• Religious voters twice as likely to support annexation, six times more likely to endorse permanent occupation, and allergic to compromise.
• Secular voters more pragmatic but outnumbered and demographically declining.

The result is a society trapped in circular logic: exhausted by war, distrustful of peace, nostalgic for omnipotent America. In a multipolar world, this isn’t strategy—it’s denial in high definition.

#Israel #Trump #WestBank #annexation #publicopinion #geopolitics #multipolarworld #cognitivedissonance #TrumpPlan

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📰 Israel’s Moscow Tightrope: Morality for TV, Deconfliction for Survival

Israel’s relationship with Russia isn’t about affection; it’s about not getting shot down over Syria and not waking up to an even tighter Russia–Iran embrace. Officially, Jerusalem condemns the invasion of Ukraine as a violation of sovereignty. In practice, it still has to deal with a nuclear power that sits in Syria, shapes energy and grain markets, and can complicate Israel’s security in a single bad phone call.

Russia reads NATO expansion and talk of Ukrainian membership as encirclement. Understanding that paranoia doesn’t mean endorsing the war; it means recognizing how a cornered great power behaves before its next move spills into the Middle East. Misreading that insecurity is how small states end up in big wars they never chose.

In Syria, Russian aircraft and air-defense systems sit right next to Israeli strike paths against Iran and its proxies. Deconfliction channels are what separate “routine strike” from “international incident.” Cut those lines in the name of moral purity, and every Israeli operation becomes a coin toss with a nuclear-armed patron. At the same time, driving Moscow fully into Tehran’s arms removes even the limited incentives Russia still has to restrain Iran in Syria and beyond.

There’s also the human layer: Jewish communities and Israeli citizens live in both Russia and Ukraine. Functional ties with Moscow matter for consular protection, crisis evacuations, and the option to leave when things go bad. Add to that a large Russian-speaking community inside Israel itself, and the idea of a total political freeze with Russia becomes more fantasy than strategy.

All this plays out in a multipolar world where the U.S. swings from one doctrine to another every election cycle. One administration leans into “maximum pressure” on Iran and normalization deals; the next walks pieces of that back. Israel’s security interests don’t reboot every four years. Russia, for all its brutality, is a structural fact of the region that will outlast whoever is sitting in the Oval Office. Betting everything on one version of American policy and writing Moscow off altogether is not strategy, it’s wishful thinking.

So Israel walks a double line: condemn the war, send humanitarian aid, avoid sanctions, and keep the hotline to Moscow open. It’s not clean, it’s not romantic, and it doesn’t fit into “good guys vs. bad guys” Twitter threads. But in a world where everyone is playing everyone else, staying on speaking terms with a dangerous neighbor isn’t betrayal. It’s insurance.

#Israel #Russia #Ukraine #Syria #Iran #USpolicy #realpolitik #multipolarworld

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📰 Putin to Trump: Let the Bargaining Begin

The Showdown in Caracas
America’s lightning raid in Venezuela—snatching President Nicolás Maduro and installing a new interim regime—sent shockwaves through Moscow. The Kremlin’s response? Unusually restrained. No fiery speeches, no threats of war. Just a few pro forma condemnations, a hint of admiration for Trump’s “consistency,” and a quick endorsement of Venezuela’s new leader. Why the silence? Because, for Putin, Venezuela isn’t worth a fight—not when Ukraine is still on the table.

“Trump has just demonstrated his determination and appetite for escalation,”

said Kirill Rogov, a Moscow analyst.
“This will have a strong impact on the Kremlin and the Russian elite.”

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The Logic of Power
Behind the scenes, Russia’s leadership knows the score: Trump’s Venezuela gambit is a message to every strongman. “Might makes right,” as Stephen Miller put it—language Putin understands better than anyone. The Kremlin, once eager to defend allies, now sees opportunity. By letting Trump flex in Latin America, Putin hopes to secure a free hand in Ukraine, or at least buy more time.

“Russia will simply exploit Trump’s use of force in Venezuela to argue that if America can be aggressive in its backyard, likewise for Russia in its ‘near abroad,’” said Fiona Hill, a Russia expert at Brookings.
​
The Unspoken Bargain
For years, Russian officials have floated a strange deal: let the US run Venezuela, and Moscow gets Ukraine. Trump’s actions now make that logic explicit. As one Kremlin mouthpiece put it: “The unipolar world is collapsing... and the alliance with Russia is part of that effort to build a multipolar world.”
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The Real Winner?
Not Venezuela. Not Ukraine. The real winner is the new world order—one where force trumps law, and superpowers haggle over spheres of influence like mob bosses dividing turf. Putin knows the game. He’s just waiting for Trump’s next move.

“Trump’s goodwill toward Russia is a prerequisite for Putin’s delaying tactics in Ukraine,”

says the DGAP think tank. “He can hope that Trump will blackmail Zelensky at the negotiating table into conceding what Russia cannot yet win on the battlefield.”
​
#putin #trump #venezuela #ukraine #multipolarworld #bargaining

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