Recent geopolitical and military multipolarity has given many of the world’s autocrats opportunities to build new alliances and break free of the US-led international rules-based order. Will Turkey seize this opportunity to forge its own path of expansion in the Middle East?
Recent geopolitical and military multipolarity has given many of the world’s autocrats opportunities to build new alliances and break free of the US-led international rules-based order.
Across Africa, former colonies have deepened economic ties with China and Russia, exchanging vast mineral wealth for loans and military assistance. Few examples of this strategic pivot have been more pertinent than when Mali’s military government hired Russian contracting firm Wagner Group for military assistance, breaking their traditional relationship with France and the Francophone world. The Wagner Group, in fact, shot to notoriety again this week, with reports that the group has been contracted to undertake high level killings in Ukraine.
In Europe, the Hungarian government, until recently, had sought closer and more fruitful relationships with the Kremlin despite being members of NATO, while the Solomon Islands has made their relationship with China clear to the world.
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