2023-06-23 01:25:07
The meeting will be held in Copenhagen and officials from Turkey and possibly China are also expected to attend. The meeting was scheduled at the request of Ukraine, a nation that requested rapprochement with the global South.
“As the conflict is expected to drag on into next year, Western officials are keen to preach the virtues of Ukraine’s resistance,” he says. Financial Times.
And it is that, given the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, several countries have preferred not to adhere to any side or supply weapons to the Zelensky Army. “They are not convinced. It is a terrible thing to admit,” one of the interviewees told the outlet.
For this reason, the United States seeks, mainly, to achieve two objectives: search for new areas of influence before the wear of the unilateral model and contain the expansion of Russian foreign policywhich has been gaining strength in the global South, the specialist in diplomatic history of Russia and its foreign policy from the State University of Saint Petersburg, Imelda Ibáñez, assures Sputnik.
The specialist is emphatic when saying that the United States wants contain the multipolar foreign policy led by Russiawhich has had as an ally the region of the global South.
According to the academic and specialist in International Relations, Ana Luisa Trujillo, this eventual meeting between Washington and powers from the global South is a maneuver by the White House to change its strategy. And it is that she, she assures her, the calculations of the Biden Administration were not correct and the conflict in Ukraine has spread more than the West planned.
“There is a strong economic cost. A war industry is being developed, but the bulk of the population does not see it as something beneficial, in addition to the fact that a change of government is coming in the United States, which hastens the search for a solution to a conflict that it was miscalculated,” underlines the specialist in an interview with Sputnik.
Likewise, he points out that Washington’s intention to win over the sympathy of the countries of the global South to support Ukraine corresponds to the fact that the BRICS —a bloc made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa— already hold an important place in the economy. so that “the great powers no longer go alone making the big decisions, but also need support from these countries.
“I think there will not be much support [por parte de la India, Brasil y China]at least in the short term, for the United States,” says the specialist.
Brasilia, New Delhi, Pretoria and Beijing have refused to join Washington and Brussels’ sanctions policy against Moscow.
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