Even as Russia was carrying out what looks like yet another extra-judicial killing, the BRICS countries were meeting in South Africa to admit more nations to their club.
Even as Russia was carrying out what looks like yet another extra-judicial killing, the BRICS countries were meeting in South Africa to admit more nations to their club.
Imagine looking at Russia and seeing not a blood-soaked tyranny, but an ally. Imagine thinking of Vladimir Putin not as a villain, but as a role model. Imagine being so marinated in anti-Western sentiment that, when Russia breaks a treaty to invade a nation it had promised to defend, you convince yourself that Nato started it.