Anti-Russia Alliance Is Missing a Big Bloc: The Developing World
Anti-Russia Alliance Is Missing a Big Bloc: The Developing World
"If we’re entering a new era of great power conflict, most Latin American governments would prefer to sit this one out," said AS/COA's Brian Winter to The Wall Street Journal.
Western leaders seeking to build a global coalition to isolate Russia over its war on Ukraine are facing pushback from the world’s largest developing nations, including the democracies of India, Brazil and South Africa.
The resistance, much of it from economic self-interest, limits the pressure on President Vladimir Putin and spotlights factions in the global community that recall the Cold War, when many countries tried to steer clear of the rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union. […]
The nonaligned approach is rooted in the sentiment that it wouldn’t be beneficial to pick sides if the war were to spill over into the battle over global influence being waged by the U.S. and China, said Brian Winter, editor of Americas Quarterly, a nonpartisan journal about Latin America.
“If we’re entering a new era of great power conflict, most Latin American governments would prefer to sit this one out,” Mr. Winter said. “These governments remember that the Cold War had terrible consequences for them, that the region was used as a chess board."
