DIn the support they bring to Ukraine, Westerners will be isolated, we believe. Most of the world will not share the anger of “western collective”, as they say in Moscow. Vladimir Putin would benefit from benevolent neutrality, even understanding, not only from China, but also from India and the so-called, in crude general terms, the global South.

After all, the war between “White” of the same religion will not interest Africa, Asia, or the Arab world. In Paris, a committed French commentator hates “Westism”announce: ” We [Occidentaux] we are alone [à déplorer l’agression russe et à aider Kiev]. » In Moscow, one of the most sophisticated analysts of the Kremlin position, Fyodor Lukyanov, concludes from this that Russia, on the Ukrainian battlefield, is on the right side of history. In the journal he edited, Russia in Global AffairsLukyanov wrote that the war in Ukraine would make Russia “Flag bearer” from the global South tired of the Western domination of world affairs.

A way of saying that Russian artillery, pounding the cities and burning the plains of Ukraine, in short against the West, would herald the entry of a new era and the end of that hegemony. “western collective” will run since 1945 – the thesis that Emmanuel Macron is trying to dismantle, Tuesday, September 20, from the UN platform in New York.

By the end of February, at the organization’s Security Council, China and India (more than 30% of the world’s population) had refrained from condemning the Russian aggression. In the General Assembly, the same abstention from a number of African and several Arab countries, among others.

But it was in late February or early March, before the Russian army faced Ukrainian resistance. Seven months later, against the backdrop of a devastating war, the political-diplomatic landscape is different. Today, if one side is isolated, it is Russia. Watch the movements observed and the words spoken last week in the capital city of Uzbekistan. Samarkand hosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. Created in 2001 at the initiative of Beijing, SCO unites, apart from China, Russia and India, most of the Central Asian countries.

Not in all areas

On February 4, Moscow and Beijing celebrate “unlimited friendship” that binds them in a common political battle: to take precedence over American leadership. But in Samarkand, the Chinese side recalled that there were limits to the Sino-Russian deal. Opening face-to-face with Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin took the lead: “We understand your questions and concerns. » Translation: the Chinese express their disapproval to their friends.

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