s a violation of international law that reneges on its commitment to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty under Article 1 of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, Russia’s February 2022 invasion is a test case that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is watching closely to assess U.
However, the Russian invasionofUkraine and the global energy crisis have shackled the union, and its recent effort to greenwash fossil gas seems unlikely to succeed.
Amid Western sanctions following Russia’s invasionofUkraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a five-page decree on June 30, seizing full control of the Sakhalin-2 gas and oil project.
The Russian invasionofUkraine has brought the broadened range of political, economic, and strategic partnerships of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Russia and China to the fore, and renewed a scholarly focus on the two Gulf states’ pivot to the East.
Although the Russian invasionofUkraine seems to have brought us back to the Cold War era, the faithful alliances of the past have no meaning in today’s politics.
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Apart from being an anti-EU political figure, Mélenchon is a leader who, despite condemning Russia’s invasionofUkraine, is a Russia sympathizer, someone who offered to leave NATO and seek an alternative to the Western bloc.
Russia’s invasionofUkraine in February 2022 pushed the Biden administration, which initially criticized MBS’s foreign policy actions, to start talks with Saudi Arabia to garner their support behind Ukraine in an attempt to further isolate Russia and diversify alternative oil resources.
The Russian invasionofUkraine added insult to injury as farmers face further rising oil and fertilizer costs, and the lingering effects of COVID19 labor restrictions.
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The shock effect of the Russia-Ukraine war
Russia’s invasionofUkraine caught various international observers by surprise, not the least, owing to the almost universal belief that the various threatened sanctions would mean that costs would outweigh any benefits of a military campaign.