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It’s always Shark Week in Putin’s world. That doesn’t bode well for Trump’s Ukraine peace hopes
Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Kyrgyzstan this week for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, a regional confab that also brought together Xi Jinping of China, Narendra Modi of India and Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran.
The leaders convened in the capital Bishkek during a week of high geopolitical anxiety, with a fresh round of tit-for-tat strikes by Iran and the US, Russian drones and missiles pummeling Ukraine and Germany accusing Russia of being responsible for a drone attack targeting Leipzig airport last month.
But Putin appeared firmly in his comfort zone. At a press conference late Tuesday, he seemed to go out of his way to make one point explicit: nations exist in a state of Darwinian competition, and Russia will prevail in a survival-of-the-fittest contest.
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