Vladimir Putin he’s not crazy His way of thinking follows another line. He dreams of replacing what he once was Imperial Russia. It is true that the last czars were a weaker version, and that the Soviet Union restored that power, but Putin pursues the former more than the latter.
But to recover that potential you need resources. today has a GDP equal to that of Brazil, with a country of a colossal dimension. And Brazil, with a smaller territory, suffers enormous inequalities. With the war it can unleash a chain reaction, bleeding an economy that already sees its bank accounts frozen.
It is true that in Russia there is capitalism for the few, but the Western European Russians will want to maintain their standard of living. And on the other hand, the promise of a lightning invasion that would dominate Ukraine in days, vanished. Ukraine did not bow as Moscow predicted.
What’s more, China, Putin’s main ally, resents that course of events. They see their own superpower construction from respectability and prestige.
In contrast, the reaction of Europe was too warm. And it became clear that the Europeans, beyond empathy, do not want to go and die for Ukraine. They still live under the shadow of what were two World Wars in which they killed more than 60 million soldiers and civilians, to which are added the more than six million Jews.
Putin does not find there rivals of weight that oppose him and advances. So he passes for crazy when he is determined. And in one fell swoop he drags the world into the 19th century by force to rise up as new tsar.
It is possible that this will change – although not from one day to the next – the global architecture. Let them surge other types of leaders in mirror Because the archetype of multilateralism that the UN represents, with all its bureaucracy and millionaire budget, again did not work.
by George Faurie
