Not too long ago, it looked like Vladimir Putin was on his way to becoming an international pariah. The West severed all remaining ties after his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; post-Soviet states in Central Asia were wary of his apparently neo-Soviet territorial ambitions; and - even if they weren’t mates with the West - the rest of the world was put out by the subsequent increase in food and energy prices. Today, that’s all changed, as evidenced by Putin’s chummy appearance at the SCO earlier this week.
Find out what’s gone wrong for the West and right for Putin by watching the latest episode of our podcast the World Leader Leaderboard.
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Not too long ago, it looked like Vladimir Putin was on his way to becoming an international pariah. The West severed all remaining ties after his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; post-Soviet states in Central Asia were wary of his apparently neo-Soviet territorial ambitions; and - even if they weren’t mates with the West -
the rest of the world was put out by the subsequent increase in food and energy prices. Today, that’s all changed, as evidenced by Putin’s chummy appearance at the SCO earlier this week.
Find out what’s gone wrong for the West and right for Putin by watching the latest episode of our podcast the World Leader Leaderboard.
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