The Russian SMO (2): Why was it a global turning point?
42 min readWhile many in Washington welcomed a foreign state (Ukraine) fighting and dying in attempts to weaken Russia, seen as a global rival, in the Global South, disillusion with Western global governance drew attention to the counter-weight role of Russia and China and to the tyranny of the US dollar.
Within a short space of time after the SMO, there was a wide clamour in the Global South for cooperation with Russia and, in particular, adherence to BRICS, the Russia and China-led bloc. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab el-Hajj)
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