Russia’s role as the junior partner in the Russo-Chinese relationship would have been seen by Putin’s Soviet and czarist predecessors as a humiliation.
What really does not work will eventually need to change. Sooner rather than later, Europe’s green movement will need to accept this most inconvenient of truths.
Nothing serious has ever come from negotiations over democracy with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. His criminal regime cannot risk free elections.
‘Climate change’ has become the default excuse for any number of adverse events — no further explanations needed — including many unrelated to climate.