Western unity is fragmenting as the EU stumbles from crisis to crisis, NATO is struggling to recover from its rout in Afghanistan, and US President Joe Biden has apparently turned his back on America’s endless foreign adventures.
That was the backdrop to this year’s annual Valdai Discussion Club conference, held in Russia’s southern city of Sochi and attended by President Vladimir Putin and other top dignitaries. The theme, fittingly, was ‘Global Shake-Up in the 21st Century: The Individual, Values and the State’, and the question attendees were grappling with was how Russia should respond to the rapid transformation of the world.
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