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Attempts by Western countries to organize the international isolation of Russia remain unsuccessful due to ignoring the interests of the rest of the world community, Financial Times columnist Edward Luce believes.
Luce notes that most of the countries of the non-Western world want strategic autonomy, and the Russian special military operation in Ukraine makes the request for a multipolarity of the world even more urgent.
The article notes that India and China are helping Russia diversify markets and circumvent restrictions on the use of Western-controlled financial instruments, which does not allow isolating Russia. Luce writes that it makes no sense to accuse Beijing and New Delhi of buying discounted Russian oil. In his opinion, in order to solve the problem of Russia’s international isolation, it is necessary to listen to the wishes of the countries that help Moscow.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the long-term goal of the West is to contain and weaken Russia, but recent events draw a line under the global dominance of the West both in politics and in the economy. Putin also noted that Russia does not plan to isolate itself, and it is impossible to do this from the outside.