In a speech at the Eurasian Economic Forum, Russian President Vladimir Putin
said that trying to isolate Russia is “impossible, utterly unrealistic in the modern
world”. His words accentuate Russia’s full awareness of the West’s objectives,
and Lavrov’s busy itinerary, especially in the Global South, is Moscow’s own way
of animating an alternative global economic system in which Russia is not
isolated. The outcome of all of these efforts will not only redefine the world
from a geopolitical perspective, but will redefine the very concept of globalization
for generations to come.
