Putin seeks to rival Western power with high-profile summit

Still the shortest pole in the world.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres

He should know better than to visit a war criming state.

Putin has repeatedly accused the West of "provoking" Russia into sending troops into Ukraine, rejecting the idea his offensive is an imperial-style land grab -- despite Moscow seizing four Ukrainian regions and claiming them as its own.

What a clown.

The Kremlin has said it wants global affairs to be guided by international law, "not on rules that are set by individual states, namely the United States."

International law russia can break?

"We believe that BRICS is a prototype of multipolarity, a structure uniting the Southern and Eastern hemispheres on the principles of sovereignty and respect for each other," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said.

BRICS is an investment club, nothing more.

"What BRICS is doing is gradually -- brick by brick -- building a bridge to a more democratic and just world order," he added.

Where democracy can mean as little as you want it to mean, presumably.

Two dozen world leaders will meet in Russia this week for a summit of the BRICS group, an alliance of emerging economies that the Kremlin hopes will challenge Western "hegemony".

Nope. It won't.

President Vladimir Putin seeks to show Western attempts to isolate Moscow over the two-and-a-half-year offensive have failed.

Nobody would be trying to isolate Putin if he wasn't such a war monger.

Putin has repeatedly accused the West of "provoking" Russia into sending troops into Ukraine, rejecting the idea his offensive is an imperial-style land grab -- despite Moscow seizing four Ukrainian regions and claiming them as its own.

Well, Putin has a valid point, and this is an opinion article and not news. Anybody who writes something as simplistic as this either does not know any history or has an agenda.

Good to see Moscow standing tall for public decency and equality between decent sovereign nations as the world inevitably transitions from a unipolar "rules-based-order" hypocrisy to a multipolar mutual era of global cooperation and engagement.

Certain quarters object to their unilateral hegemony being undermined. Stuff them.

ZaphodToday 04:39 pm JST

Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations,

Javelins and training are not an armed attack in this world.

Positive to also see the UN visiting and onboard with multipolar engagement. Also important to observe said organization recognizes Russian sovereignty over all lands/islands pre-2014. Their own geospatial/mapping agency attests to this fact.

JJEToday 04:47 pm JST

Good to see Moscow standing tall for public decency and equality between decent sovereign nations as the world inevitably transitions from a unipolar "rules-based-order" hypocrisy to a multipolar mutual era of global cooperation and engagement.

The "public decency" of violating the UN charter and three other treaties at will apparently.

Also important to observe said organization recognizes Russian sovereignty over all lands/islands pre-2014. Their own geospatial/mapping agency attests to this fact.

Also important to observe that many of russia's disgraces are highlighted on the very same page, including the russian disgrace in Ukraine.

When this conflict is settled in the future, inevitably the same UN agency will move lines on the map, consistent with an expanded Russia. This will be one the conditions for resolving the limited ground operation.

JJEToday 04:58 pm JST

When this conflict is settled in the future, inevitably the same UN agency will move lines on the map, consistent with an expanded Russia. This will be one the conditions for resolving the limited ground operation.

Unlimited russians into the ground I guess.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres

He should know better than to visit a war criming state.

The country the UN headquarters is located in is a much greater war criminal.

Javelins and training were a serious violation of the Minsk Agreements. However, that is water under the bridge: future neutral-buffer west Ukraine need not worry about such things.

I've never had an entirely positive view of humanity, and the comments on this thread show me why. There are people here who are openly wishing for the destruction of Ukraine, presumably for reasons best known only to themselves.

Pure, undiluted evil, openly shown and paraded with glee.

A question on the article. Who is it Konstantin Kalachev? That one - the general secretary of the beer lovers party? Congratulations! Your authors have started asking the expert opinion of customers at the counter in the market.

No one has called for the "destruction of Ukraine" (except the leadership there).

An attitude adjustment is an entirely different kettle of fish.

Wick's pencilToday 05:01 pm JST

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres

He should know better than to visit a war criming state.

The country the UN headquarters is located in is a much greater war criminal.

Sources of current war crimes? Or is this the helping Israel is a war crime claim?

JJEToday 05:03 pm JST

Javelins and training were a serious violation of the Minsk Agreements. However, that is water under the bridge: future neutral-buffer west Ukraine need not worry about such things.

Highly unlikely that weapons and training outside Ukraine were a violation of Minsk.

No one has called for the "destruction of Ukraine" (except the leadership there).

An attitude adjustment is an entirely different kettle of fish.

You literally just said you want to remove most of Ukraine's population centers and ability to have an army. The astute reader will note that that is the end of independent Ukraine.

Zaphod

Putin has repeatedly accused the West of "provoking" Russia into sending troops into Ukraine, rejecting the idea his offensive is an imperial-style land grab -- despite Moscow seizing four Ukrainian regions and claiming them as its own.

Well, Putin has a valid point,

Yeah, right! So how did Russian tanks rolling into Ukraine constitute a provocation by the West.

Putin is a clown and anyone who uncritically believes his talking points risks being the same.

BRICS will never be anything but the "B" team. Many members are in both camps, being in the West sphere as well as BRICS, to get maximum benefits. They do that to minimize exposure to the influence of Russia and China who see themselves as the rulers of BRICS with all members subservient to them.

JJE

Good to see Moscow standing tall for public decency and equality between decent sovereign nations as the world inevitably transitions from a unipolar "rules-based-order" hypocrisy to a multipolar mutual era of global cooperation and engagement.

Oh yes, that good old "rule-based order", meaning Washington-based order.

In the event, the writer is trying to play down what is an existential threat to US hegemony. The more nations join BRICS, the weaker the US becomes as self-appointed world policeman.

There are people here who are openly wishing for the destruction of Ukraine, presumably for reasons best known only to themselves.

I'm not going to have a discussion with Duda, but this phrase prompted me to clarify the misunderstanding. No one wants the destruction of Ukraine, God forbid. Just make it clear to yourself that there cannot be a country next to Russia that would have so much hatred that NATO incites in them. The verbal promise that "after the end of the war, Ukraine will be accepted into NATO" is absolutely unacceptable for Russia. Either a neutral Ukraine with a documented promise not to deploy military bases and other military intentions, or a complete takenover (not destructed Ukraine) Ukraine by Russia. Well, and with the remnants of western Ukraine under the rule of Romania, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. There won't be another one. Until you understand this, the war will continue. Although, this evidence is not visible from the sofa :))) This need would still arise in the future, if not now. There will be no more leaders like Gorbachev and Yeltsin in Russia. Pray God it wasn't another Stalin.

Nobody wants the “destruction” of Ukraine.

the proxy war over, the 100s of billions of our money spent on destruction, all the civilian and military deaths on both sides? We want THAT over.

if lines on a map have to change a little? So be it. That has happened 100s of times in history.

Building a bridge out of bricks? Legos maybe. It is fantasy. But the UN Secretery General, same guy, was in Kyiv when Russia was shelling it. Fine bricks bridge building there.