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CHRONIC. Do China, Russia and India really have the means – and the will – to join forces in an attempt to challenge the world order?
By Gerard Araud
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Lhe war in Ukraine proves it: the West, even when it defends the independence of an attacked country, does not manage to mobilize the international community on its side beyond a vague condemnation of the principle of the aggressor by the United Nations General Assembly. Few countries have followed him in imposing sanctions at Russia’s expense.
Indeed, even if it neither approves nor supports Putin, the rest of the world intends to stay as far as possible away from a conflict which does not concern it directly. On occasion, he even took advantage of this by buying, with a discount, Russian oil placed under embargo by the Europeans. Suddenly, the Russians argued this apparent neutrality to assert that the world saw in their military intervention a fight against a decadent West…
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