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.
Indeed, it’s the framing that’s the most revealing part here. The west sees the world as being hierarchical with the US being at the centre of it. Seems that the idea of a multipolar world where different countries are able to pursue their own independent interests while cooperating with one another towards common goals is incomprehensible to western propagandists.