What Vladimir Putin really means about obsolete liberalism
What he believes has outlived its usefulness isn’t the liberal approach to migration or gender, nor is it liberal economics — it is the liberal world order
29 June 2019 - 09:59
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assertion that liberalism has “outlived its usefulness” is less an expression of his deeply held convictions than a tactical device. In a world Putin believes to be fractured and adrift, he is looking for transactional relationships with people who hold similar views.
In an interview with the Financial Times ahead of the G20 meeting in Osaka, Putin objected to two aspects of what he calls liberalism: the embrace of immigration and the rejection of rigid, traditional values...
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