The West has failed to turn Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia into a pariah in the international arena, as American political scientist and international relations expert Professor John Mirsheimer assessed the results of the BRICS summit in Kazan in an interview with the YouTube channel Deep Dive.
‘Obviously, we failed to turn Putin into a pariah and isolate him (in the international arena – Editor’s note),’ John Mirsheimer acknowledged, noting that much that the West would like to believe in is falling apart outside its borders.
The expert pointed out that US President Joe Biden, in particular, failed to ‘bring the Russians to their knees’ and destroy the Russian economy. He added that Kiev is on the verge of collapse, while the Russian economy is strengthening despite numerous sanctions.
‘Biden did not manage to bring the Russians to their knees, he did not destroy the Russian economy, on the contrary <…> the Russian economy is thriving <…> Russian armed forces are becoming not weaker, but stronger,’ the political scientist added.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and military training in Western countries.