strengthened. but it will be dismayed that this is precisely what putin s war has achieved. the war threatens to roll back decades of economic globalisation. beijing does not want that either. this is a fight between democracy and authoritarianism. it is also a fight between two conflicting worldviews. putin wants a return to something like the yalta settlement of 1945, which divided europe into spheres of interest and gave russia domination of eastern europe. the west wants the values of the helsinki final act of 1975, which recognised the rights of sovereign, independent states to choose their own destinies and alliances. this is the face that has become the living symbol of that fight. president zelensky has united ukrainians around a powerful and proud sense of who they are, and is saluted now across the democratic world. allan little, bbc news.
in the 1990s, boris yeltsin tried to turn russia into a democracy. when that failed, putin took it back to its imperial past, aggressively asserting russia s right to defend itself by dominating its neighbours. the question now is whether this fight will go global, and divide the world into two mutually antagonistic blocks. china and russia are bonded by a shared antipathy to american power. china does not want putin weakened, or the west strengthened. but it will be dismayed that this is precisely what putin s war has achieved. the war threatens to roll back decades of economic globalisation. beijing does not want that either. this is a fight between democracy and authoritarianism. it is also a fight between two conflicting world views. putin wants a return to something like the yalta settlement of 1945, which divided europe into spheres of interest and gave russia domination of eastern europe. the west wants the values
either, forfear of the example it might set. in the 1990s, boris yeltsin tried to turn russia into a democracy. when that failed, putin took it back to its imperial past, aggressively asserting russia s right to defend itself by dominating its neighbours. the question now is whether this fight will go global, and divide the world into two mutually antagonistic blocks. china and russia are bonded by a shared antipathy to american power. china does not want putin weakened, or the west strengthened. but it will be dismayed that this is precisely what putin s war has achieved. the war threatens to roll back decades of economic globalisation. beijing does not want that either. this is a fight between democracy and authoritarianism. it is also a fight between two conflicting worldviews. putin wants a return to something like the yalta settlement of 1945, which divided europe into spheres of interest and gave russia domination of eastern europe.
this is a fight between democracy and authoritarianism. it is also a fight between two conflicting world views. putin wants a return to something like the yalta settlement of 1945, which divided europe into spheres of interest and gave russia domination of eastern europe. the west wants the values of the helsinki final act of 1975, which recognised the rights of sovereign, independent states to choose their own destinies and alliances. this is the face that has become the living symbol of that fight. president zelensky has united ukrainians around a powerful and proud sense of who they are, and is saluted now across the democratic world. allan little, bbc news. the duke and duchess of cambridge have arrived in belize for their week long tour of the caribbean. it is their firstjoint overseas trip since the start of the pandemic. but part of the first day of their tour had to be cancelled due to a protest
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