Multiple bullies at work, out to create a ‘multipolar world’
The HinduWhy has U.S. President Donald Trump thrown a public tantrum and refused to deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy? He told an interviewer that Mr. Putin “wants to install in Kyiv a pro-Russian government, a government that is attuned to Moscow’s interests.”A Ukraine that was a liberal democracy, he said, was “from a Russian perspective.an existential threat.” But would it not be imperialism, asked the interviewer, to tell Ukrainians that they cannot be a liberal democracy? When you’re a country like Ukraine and you live next door to a great power like Russia, you have to pay careful attention to what the Russians think, because if you take a stick and you poke them in the eye, they’re going to retaliate.” ‘Democracy is not realistic’ Democracy simply is not realistic in a multipolar world, said Mearsheimer. Mr. Biden had evacuated the U.S. embassy from Kyiv and said, days before the Russian invasion, that “it may be the wise choice for President Zelenskyy to leave Ukraine”. Mr. Vance told the European Union in Munich that Mr. Trump wanted to liberate European people from their “internal threat” — immigrants and the liberal democratic leadership that let them into Europe.
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