Vladimir Putin is challenging the world order, and he seems proud of it. But Russia is definitely not the only country dissatisfied with this world order.. For example, the United States is considered a global hegemon. For more than 60 years, Washington has had to deal with an ideological enemy that lives right next door in Cuba..

The US cannot force its own companies to return home from developing countries. And now they suffer humiliation every day. Americans wake up every day with news of Russian strikes on Ukraine, which they and their allies support.. U.S. leaders know first hand that a brutal invasion can further aggravate an already difficult situation, Alexander Baunov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Center, writes in an article for the Wall Street Journal..

In the battle for a new world order, Putin is not afraid to destroy the existing one. Russia has bet heavily on its size and strength, believing that any attempt to exclude it from the international system will lead to its collapse.. Or that the economic cost will be so great that the West will have to somehow put up with Russian needs..

“They will all crawl back,” Russians say in response to sanctions and the flight of Western companies such as Coca-Cola and Boeing. It is not clear what this self-confidence is based on.. The success of none of these companies, as well as the Western economy as a whole, does not depend on the Russian market. Russia played no role in the post-war economic miracles of Japan, Spain, South Korea or West Germany. Asian tigers have become what they are without a presence in the Russian market. Even China's boom wasn't because it shipped jackets to Russia in the 1990s.. There is hope that the Russian substitute for McDonald's can replicate the familiar flavors of the American chain.. But it has no chance to become a global company.

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The world has changed in many ways since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but it hasn't become any more favorable to Moscow's ambitions.. Finland and Sweden join NATO. Nord Stream 2, which was about to be launched, is now flooded. The number of countries that abolished visa requirements for citizens of the Russian Federation grew from year to year. But no longer. State TV channel RT has succeeded in the global information market.

But now it's blocked across the EU. Some Western Officials Silently Recognize Russian Control of Occupied Ukrainian Crimea. Lithuania was a reliable transit hub for all goods bound for Kaliningrad. Now Vilnius is trying to limit this flow as much as possible, relying on EU sanctions. Even friendly China "

Changing the world order, Russia suddenly realized that it is not only a victim, but also a part of it.. Moreover, she even benefited from this world order.