Big League Politics by Jose Nino
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently criticized the “short-sighted” sanctions the Collective West has been imposing on Russia. He also believes that they are a “danger” for the whole world. He made these statements at a speech at the Eastern Economic Forum that took place in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok on August 7, 2022. During that speech, Putin said the Collective West had destabilized the global economy with an “aggressive” attempt to impose unipolar hegemony worldwide.
“The pandemic has been replaced by new challenges of a global nature, carrying a threat to the whole world, I’m talking about the sanctions rush in the West and the West’s blatantly aggressive attempts to impose their modus vivendi on other countries, to take away their sovereignty, to submit them to their will,” Putin declared.
Putin believes the Collective West has been too stubborn to recognize “irreversible tectonic shifts” in international affairs such as the rise of multipolarity, where countries are no longer as willing to buy into liberal hegemony as before…
