"The European Union has completely lost its political sovereignty, and its bureaucratic elites are dancing to someone else’s tune," with comments like these, Putin was certain to grab the attention of the world. Here's what the Ukraine war will achieve, according to Vladimir Putin.
In what the Kremlin referred to as an "extremely important" address, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that new centers of power have developed, the unipolar world order is not returning, and the "colonial" mode of thinking has collapsed.
1. The old order has vanished with the wind
Putin told the crowd at SPIEF that when the US declared the end of the Cold War, Americans referred to themselves as "messengers of God on earth," with no commitments and interests that should be treated as sacred. Since then, other centers of power have formed, and they are entitled to defend their own institutions, economies, and sovereignties.
These “truly revolutionary, tectonic changes in g...